Dobot Atom
Atom is the first humanoid from Dobot, a Shenzhen collaborative-robot maker listed in Hong Kong. It launched at CNY 199,000 with claims of 0.05 mm arm precision.
Dobot press imageThe verdict
Dobot has spent a decade selling robot arms to schools and small factories, and Atom is that experience applied to a humanoid. At $27,500 on preorder it is priced sensibly, and the company knows how to ship a product.
- Buy it if
- Buyers who want a humanoid from a company with a distribution track record.
- Skip it if
- You need it now. It is still a preorder.
In its favour
- Established maker with real distribution
- Sensible pricing
- Manipulation heritage
Against it
- Preorder
- Unproven as a humanoid
- Limited independent testing
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
Similar money, different machine.
- Status
- Commercial
- Category
- general purpose
- First revealed
- March 2025
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 153 cm
- Weight
- 62 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 28
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Announced March 2025 at CNY 199,000 with deliveries starting mid 2025.
What stands out
- CNY 199,000 list price
- Made by an established cobot manufacturer
Autonomy, observed
Breakfast preparation demo with sub-millimetre positioning claim at launch; straight-leg walking.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: five-finger hands
Price and volume
CNY 199,000 list price (about USD 27,500).
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Dobot Atom sits at #16 of 107 with 47 points: deployment 14/50, autonomy 18/30, availability 15/20. See that method.
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Sources
- 01Dobot official siteDobot
Price sources
- 01Humanoid robots for sale: prices and US legalityRoboZaps · 2026-07-28
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