Examined and not listed › SWANCOR Qiyuan / 上纬启元 (上纬新材料科技股份有限公司)
Qiyuan Q1 / T1 · 启元 Q1 / 启元 T1
Does not meet 3 of this site’s four inclusion criteria, so it is not in the catalogue.
This is a statement about what this site lists, not about the product. The criteria are deliberately narrow (multi-purpose home robots that physically handle objects and adapt to what they find), and a robot can be excellent and still sit outside them. The criteria in full.
Criteria it does not meet
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Multi-task by design
Not metPerforms two or more distinct household task types. Not a single-purpose appliance, and not one task described several ways.
Press-listed functions are reminders, scheduled alerts, one-sentence food ordering, game interaction, foreign-language teaching and item carrying. The companion and interaction functions count together as one task type (companionship). The criterion also requires at least one physical household chore. The only physical function, item carrying, is described as carrying a load on the robot's body rather than fetching or putting objects away, and no cleaning, cooking, laundry or tidying is claimed anywhere.
Evidence: 1. 科技日报
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Physical manipulation
Not metHas arms, grippers or manipulators, and can pick up, move or handle objects.
Only "item carrying" (物品托载, load-bearing) is claimed; no source describes arms, grippers or any manipulator able to grasp objects. As described, the robot carries a load on its body rather than handling objects.
Evidence: 1. 科技日报
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AI-driven autonomy
Not metCopes with unscripted variation within a task: it perceives what is actually there and adapts, rather than replaying a fixed motion sequence. How a task is started is not part of this test.
No statement found on the underlying model or tasking method.
Evidence:no source: nothing was found either way
Criteria it does meet
Stated as plainly as the ones above. These are not consolation: they are part of the record, and on some of these pages the evidence here is stronger than anything in the catalogue.
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Credible home path
MetTargets domestic use, and has a public price, preorder or announced release window. Pure research demos are excluded.
Pre-orders open across multiple Chinese retail channels with a claimed September 2026 first-shipment month. A second outlet gives no confirmation that any unit has shipped yet.
What would change this
Would qualify if SWANCOR shows the robot has arms or grippers that handle objects, performs at least one physical household chore such as fetching and putting away or tidying alongside its companion features, and describes how it adapts within those tasks.
Records are re-checked as the field moves. A robot that meets all four criteria later moves into the catalogue.
Vendor
SWANCOR Qiyuan / 上纬启元 (上纬新材料科技股份有限公司) · based in CN
No vendor page for this product was found, which is frequently part of why it is not listed.
Sources
Everything on this page traces to one of these. Agents read sources in any language; a claim taken from a non-English source is translated and the original link kept. “Retrieved” is when we last read the page; “published” is the source’s own date, where it states one.