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M1

Does not meet 3 of this site’s four inclusion criteria, so it is not in the catalogue.

Vendor claim

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

  • Multi-task by design

    Not met

    Performs two or more distinct household task types. Not a single-purpose appliance, and not one task described several ways.

    ZEROTH's product page, its US-launch press release and independent CES coverage consistently describe M1 as a compact companion humanoid, about 50 cm (19 in) tall, for older adults and children. Its claimed functions are companionship (child interaction, reminders and daily assistance), which counts as a task type, and monitoring (fall detection, mobile safety checks, pet monitoring), which does not. The criterion also requires at least one physical household chore, and no chore -- cleaning, cooking, laundry, tidying, fetching or putting away -- is claimed for M1.

    Evidence: 1. ZEROTH, 3. Zeroth Robotics (PRNewswire), 4. ARMdevices.net

  • Physical manipulation

    Not met

    Has arms, grippers or manipulators, and can pick up, move or handle objects.

    The vendor page states a 20.08 in dual-arm span and 20 degrees of freedom, but no source, vendor or independent, describes a hand, gripper or grasping capability. ZEROTH's published roadmap assigns "better manipulation" for chores such as fetching and wiping surfaces to a separate, future full-size humanoid ("Jupiter"), distinguishing it from M1.

    Evidence: 1. ZEROTH, 4. ARMdevices.net

  • AI-driven autonomy

    Not met

    Copes 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.

    The vendor describes M1 as "an embodied intelligence" that "grows with you", and lists autonomous person-following and reinforcement-learning tools for developers. None of the cited sources names the model that drives M1's behaviour, describes it perceiving and adapting within a task, or describes recovery from error; the launch release refers to built-in skills that can be updated over time. General descriptions of intelligence are not evidence of adaptive task execution.

    Evidence: 1. ZEROTH, 3. Zeroth Robotics (PRNewswire), 4. ARMdevices.net

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.

  • Credible home path

    Met

    Targets domestic use, and has a public price, preorder or announced release window. Pure research demos are excluded.

    ZEROTH's US launch release announced preorders from Q1 2026 starting at $2,899, with general availability expected in April 2026. The vendor's product page lists a sale price of $2,499 and showed M1 as sold out on 2026-09-25; a second vendor page listed it for pre-order. A published US price and a vendor sales route exist.

    Evidence: 1. ZEROTH, 2. ZEROTH, 3. Zeroth Robotics (PRNewswire)

What would change this

Would qualify if ZEROTH shows M1 performing at least one physical household chore alongside its companion role, handling objects with a hand or gripper, and adapting within those tasks. ZEROTH's planned full-size Jupiter humanoid, which the company describes as aimed at chores, would be assessed separately once it has a consumer offer.

Records are re-checked as the field moves. A robot that meets all four criteria later moves into the catalogue.

Vendor

ZEROTH / 元点智能 (also appears in US press as "Zeroth Robotics") · based in CN
https://www.zeroth0.com/

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.

  1. ZEROTH Vendor · English · retrieved 2026-09-25
  2. ZEROTH Vendor · English · retrieved 2026-09-14
  3. Zeroth Robotics (PRNewswire) Vendor · English · retrieved 2026-09-25
  4. ARMdevices.net Press · English · retrieved 2026-09-15 Independent CES 2026 coverage confirming M1 is a compact companion device and naming Jupiter as ZEROTH's separate, future full-size humanoid aimed at manipulation.