Last updated: 2026-08-26
Zhiyuan Robotics was founded in Shanghai in February 2023, which makes the A2 a fast piece of hardware development by the standards of the field: a little over two years from company formation to a shipping product. The company sells under the AgiBot name outside China and maintains several robot lines alongside the A2.
Most humanoid manufacturers keep their robots behind an enterprise sales process, which means no price, no delivery date and no way for a researcher, a small integrator or a curious buyer to obtain one. AgiBot took the opposite route with the A2 Lite: a listed price of US$44,560, an international store, and a shipping quote.
The Lite is a reduced machine — it gives up the 360-degree lidar that the standard A2 carries — but the significance is commercial rather than technical. A published price creates a reference point that competitors are measured against, in the same way Unitree’s pricing reset expectations for what a bipedal humanoid should cost.
Above the Lite, the picture thins out quickly. Neither the A2 nor the A2 Ultra has a public price. The wheeled A2-W has no official figure at all; the only number in circulation traces back to an unnamed industry source quoted by Yicai, at ¥400,000 to ¥800,000. Payload and walking speed for the bipedal variants have not been published, and the height and weight figures were revised after launch — from 175 cm and 55 kg to 169 cm and 69 kg — which is a useful reminder that early humanoid specifications often describe an intention rather than a shipping machine.
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