Qinglong (OpenLoong)
Qinglong is the 185 cm open-source humanoid of the Shanghai national humanoid robot innovation center, released as the OpenLoong platform at WAIC 2024.
We have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. Treat the score as a starting point, not a recommendation.
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.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Commercial
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- 4 July 2024
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 185 cm
- Weight
- 80 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 43
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Open-source full-size humanoid released July 2024 by Shanghai's national humanoid innovation center; used by ecosystem partners.
What stands out
- Open-source full-size platform
- 43 DOF
Autonomy, observed
Walking, stair and manipulation demos at WAIC 2024 and 2025.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: dexterous hands
- AI stack: OpenLoong open-source software stack
Open source
Released under the OpenLoong open-source program.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Qinglong (OpenLoong) sits at #44 of 107 with 40 points: deployment 14/50, autonomy 12/30, availability 14/20. See that method.
Open-source humanoids: what you can actually build
24 of the 182 humanoids on record call themselves open source. 15 publish hardware files and software, 3 name a licence, 12 can be ordered, and none of the four on preorder has any autonomy evidence yet.
Startups, automakers, universities: who builds humanoids
108 makers, nine kinds. Startups hold 37 of the 44 humanoids you can order. Automakers, universities, big tech, conglomerates and NASA hold 45 robots between them and sell none of them.
Why hands are the hardest part of a humanoid
Of 182 humanoids on record, 96 describe their hands and 13 publish a degrees-of-freedom figure for them. The word dexterous appears 21 times and comes with a number once.
Sources
- 01OpenLoong open source communityHumanoid Robots (Shanghai) Co
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