Press Release
Silver A' Design Award in Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design Goes to X1 Pro Wheeled Humanoid Robot by Fan Wu
Fan Wu recognized for robotics, automaton and automation design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 27, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ X1 Pro Wheeled Humanoid Robot by Fan Wu, designed for Shanghai Seer Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who scored anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About X1 Pro Wheeled Humanoid Robot
X1 Pro is a wheeled humanoid robot designed for handling work in warehouses and logistics facilities. The robot recognizes, grasps and moves boxes of different types, colors and sizes without manual guidance. Two modes are available. In locomotion mode the chassis lowers for fast travel of up to 10 meters per second. In operation mode the chassis rises and works together with the robotic arm and the end effector, covering the range from floor level to the top of shelving units. Boxes above 40 kilograms can be carried.
Award Record
Fan Wu is a winner of 8 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2020 - 2021 and the 2025 - 2026 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design Award
The A' Robotics Design Award is an international robotics design competition recognizing good robotics designs by robotics designers and engineers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to robotics designers, automation engineers, robotics brands and robot manufacturers from all countries. Typical entries include industrial robots, medical robots, agricultural robots, domestic robots, autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. The awarded robotics designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/robotics
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/163230
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/163230
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!163230
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/303675
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- X1 Pro Wheeled Humanoid Robot
- Function
- Wheeled Humanoid Robot
- Category
- Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing and Innovation
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Dim Gray, Black, Gray and Dark Gray
- Images
- 4
- Client
- Shanghai Seer Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Fan Wu
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #163230
Credits
- Image Credits
- Fan Wu
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Driven by the FAM series of embodied models developed in house, the X1 PRO wheeled humanoid robot achieves fully autonomous recognition, grasping, and precise handling of boxes of various types, colors, and sizes in unstructured industrial warehousing and logistics scenarios.
- Inspiration
- Industrial robotics is evolving from rigid automation to flexible intelligence. Addressing the pain points of high deployment costs and insufficient task generalization in traditional robots, embodied intelligence technology equips robots with multimodal autonomous perception and learning capabilities, enabling them to achieve human like perception and execution, a pathway considered key to overcoming current technical bottlenecks.
- Research
- Leveraging the physical interaction modeling capability of the FAM series, the X1 PRO generates optimal grasping and motion strategies in real time based on box weight, center of gravity, and material, autonomously adjusting force and posture. It can smoothly transport boxes exceeding 40 kilograms while maintaining strong robustness under complex load variations, achieving high load, high dynamic industrial grade full process operation.
- Challenge
- The X1 PRO operates in highly complex task scenarios. Enabling the model to extract core features from very few samples for generalized learning while maintaining accuracy and stability requires fundamental redesign of the underlying algorithmic architecture, realignment of multimodal data fusion, and logical reconstruction. The technical innovation and difficulty of this development are extremely high, with no established industry reference path available.
- Realization and Technology
- The X1 PRO features dual mode switching between locomotion and operation modes. In locomotion mode, the chassis adaptively lowers to enable high-speed movement of up to 10 meters per second. In operation mode, the chassis automatically raises, coordinating the MDOF system of the robotic arm, end effector, and chassis to efficiently perform a variety of tasks. This configuration fully covers the entire operational range from ground level to the top of shelving units.
- Operation and Interaction
- Built on a proprietary 3D thermal map alignment architecture, the FAM series models revolutionize the hourglass shaped information processing flow of traditional vision language action models. This allows the X1 PRO to learn and deploy each complex task with only three to five demonstration samples, reducing data requirements to one percent of conventional levels, meeting the industrial need for rapid deployment and flexible response.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project began in Shanghai in March 2024, was completed in May 2025, and was exhibited at CeMAT Shanghai 2025.
- Specifications
- 680 mm x 615.5 mm x 1772.6 mm
- Keywords
- Dual Modality, Wheeled, Humanoid Robot, Efficient, Self Adaptive, Autonomous Learning and Evolutionary Capability
