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SeeLight S1 · 拾光S1
A household robot from the Chinese company GigaAI, shown in demonstrations cooking, clearing dishes into a dishwasher and folding laundry. It is not on sale anywhere; units have been placed in Wuhan homes on a free trial basis.
Last updated 2026-09-27.
What it is
- Vendor
- GigaAI / 极佳视界 (湖北极佳视界机器人) · based in CN
- Status
- Beta: Placed in real households by invitation or selection. Not on sale.
- Confidence
- Unconfirmed Not established by any source we found, vendor or otherwise.
Can I get it where I am?
Choose your region at the top of the page to see whether you can get it where you are. Every region is listed below.
The home trial is limited to households in Wuhan, and the vendor has named no market outside mainland China.
The vendor has published no statement about its worldwide rollout that we have found.
All tracked regions
| Region | Availability | Price as published |
|---|---|---|
| Americas | ||
| United States | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| Canada | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| Europe | ||
| United Kingdom | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| Ireland | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| Netherlands | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| Germany | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| EU-wide | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| Asia-Pacific | ||
| Australia | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| New Zealand | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| China (mainland) | Announced Not for sale. Wuhan families can apply for a free home trial. The Wuhan municipal government's May 2026 announcement puts selection of the first users in the third quarter of 2026, with the list published and the trial phase begun in the first half of 2027; a June 2026 report describes one household visited with a unit and says the 100-household trial was due to open in the third quarter of 2026. Other reports describe 100 units already in homes by June 2026, and the sources disagree. In September 2026 the company described a 100-unit order for real households, with operation at scale planned for the third quarter of 2026. | No price |
| Hong Kong | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| Japan | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| South Korea | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
| Singapore | Not announced (as of 2026-09-27) | No price |
The 13 regions marked “Not announced” (checked 2026-09-27)
The home trial is limited to households in Wuhan, and the vendor has named no market outside mainland China.
Evidence: 8. Hubei Daily (湖北日报), 9. Wuhan Municipal People's Government (武汉市人民政府)
“Not announced” means the vendor had said nothing about that region when it was last checked, on the date shown; “Not offered” means the vendor has said no. An EU-wide offer counts for Ireland, the Netherlands and Germany unless the vendor says otherwise for one of them. Prices are recorded in the currency the vendor published and are never converted in the data.
May it legally be sold there?
This is a different question from whether the vendor offers it, and the two come apart: a vendor can hold open pre-orders for a robot that has no current path to being lawfully imported. The site records them separately and never merges them.
Unknown for every tracked region. No regulatory position has been established for this robot in any of them.
What it can do
Listed under Laundry, Dishes, Cooking and drinks, Tidying up, derived from the claims below.
Capability claims in the vendor’s own words, never rewritten into categories. What matters most is the label beside each one: shipped means sold and verified working, demonstrated means shown in a controlled demo, and claimed means asserted and not shown.
- Retrieves food and heats it in the microwave to prepare breakfast.
Evidence: 5. eWeek, 6. Interesting Engineering
- Chops vegetables and fries eggs while cooking.
Evidence: 7. South China Morning Post
- Clears dishes from the table and loads a dishwasher.
Evidence: 5. eWeek, 6. Interesting Engineering
- Removes laundry from a dryer, folds it, and puts it away in a wardrobe.
Evidence: 5. eWeek, 6. Interesting Engineering
- Organizes books.
Evidence: 5. eWeek, 6. Interesting Engineering
- Makes a bed and opens curtains.
Evidence: 7. South China Morning Post
- Responds to natural-language commands: co-founder Zhu Zheng is quoted describing it as "not completing pre-written scripts... A user can give it a natural-language command, and it can interpret the request," and press describes it adapting when furniture layout changes and continuing a task if interrupted.
Evidence: 5. eWeek, 6. Interesting Engineering
How it works
- Within a task
- Adapts within a task
The robot perceives what is actually in front of it and adjusts. If a sock slips mid-fold, it is meant to recover. This is what the AI-autonomy criterion tests.
- How a task starts
- Spoken or typed instruction
Descriptive only. A button, a spoken sentence and a schedule are different interfaces, not different degrees of intelligence.
- Will it try something new?
- Unknown
The vendor has not said whether the robot will attempt a task it was not validated on.
Co-founder Zhu Zheng is quoted in press saying a user can give the robot a natural-language command and it will interpret the request. No published statement says whether the robot will attempt tasks outside a validated set.
- Human operator
- None described
Nothing we found describes a remote human operator completing tasks for this robot. Note that the dataset records this as a plain yes or no, so “no” here means “not described”, not “established to be absent”.
Evidence: 1. 科技日报, 4. RoboHub (X/Twitter), 5. eWeek, 6. Interesting Engineering
Why it qualifies
A robot is listed only if it meets all four criteria. The evidence is kept so the criteria can be re-tuned against real cases rather than re-argued. How these are applied.
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Multi-task by design
MetPerforms two or more distinct household task types. Not a single-purpose appliance, and not one task described several ways.
Press reports cooking, washing and folding clothes, and clearing tables as demonstrated tasks -- three distinct types.
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Physical manipulation
MetHas arms, grippers or manipulators, and can pick up, move or handle objects.
Press describes physical handling of clothing and dishware during demonstrated tasks.
Evidence: 1. 科技日报
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AI-driven autonomy
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.
Press (X/RoboHub) describes the robot as "world-model driven," reading the task, planning a motion path, and executing with arms and body; separately, Chinese press describes it "adapting its strategy to fabric type and object placement rather than running preset scripts." Both are press paraphrases and no vendor-published statement confirms either, but two independent outlets describe a learned policy rather than fixed programming.
Evidence: 1. 科技日报, 4. RoboHub (X/Twitter)
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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.
Aimed at households in Wuhan through a free trial that families apply for. The Wuhan municipal government's May 2026 launch report says the first 100 units go first to Optics Valley talent apartments for scenario testing and then into homes, with first-user selection in the third quarter of 2026, and the list published and the trial phase begun in the first half of 2027; a June 2026 reporter visit found a unit in use in one household. Other June 2026 reports describe 100 units already in homes, and the sources disagree on this. A wider family rollout is reported as planned for the first half of 2027. No vendor-published source confirms any of this. Under either account there is a household programme with an announced timetable, which meets this criterion.
Evidence: 1. 科技日报, 5. eWeek, 7. South China Morning Post, 8. Hubei Daily (湖北日报), 9. Wuhan Municipal People's Government (武汉市人民政府)
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.
- 科技日报
- 新浪财经
- 搜狐 (press-release repost)
- RoboHub (X/Twitter) Independent English-language description of the robot as world-model driven: it reads the task, plans a motion path and executes it.
- eWeek Report of a 100-unit home trial described as already under way, with a direct co-founder quote on natural-language, non-scripted operation.
- Interesting Engineering Account of the 100-unit trial, task list and natural-language operation, consistent with eWeek; also notes performance limits (slow book-organizing and garment-folding, difficulty with cups).
- South China Morning Post Independent report of cooking (chopping and frying), bed-making and curtain-opening, and of a wider Wuhan family rollout planned for the first half of 2027.
- Hubei Daily (湖北日报) Reporter’s visit to one household in Wuhan’s Guanggu district using a unit; states the 100-household Wuhan trial (free, by application) was due to open in the third quarter of 2026. The CEO gives a current per-unit cost of CNY 200,000 and a goal of under CNY 100,000 through mass production, a manufacturing cost rather than a consumer price.
- Wuhan Municipal People's Government (武汉市人民政府) Municipal government news report of the launch: the first 100 units go first to Optics Valley talent apartments for scenario testing and then gradually into real homes; families apply free through the vendor's WeChat channel; first-user selection in the third quarter of 2026, and the list published and the trial phase begun in the first half of 2027.
- IPO早知道 (Tencent News) Report of company disclosures: a 100-unit order for real households in China, operation at scale planned for the third quarter of 2026, and a next-generation SeeLight S2 planned for the same quarter.