en.Wedoany.com Reported - Chunshui Tang officially unveiled its first humanoid companion robot, priced at the ¥15,000 class, with pre-sales starting today on Tmall and JD.com, and batch deliveries beginning August 1. Targeting the genuine companionship needs of adults, the product emphasizes "a body, body temperature, expressions, vision, and memory," and features proactive conversation and emotional response capabilities, aiming to bring companion robots—previously confined to sci-fi imagination or high-end exhibition scenarios—within reach of ordinary consumers.

According to official information, Chunshui Tang's companion robot is available in three height options: 160cm, 165cm, and 170cm, with starting prices of ¥15,800, ¥16,300, and ¥16,800, respectively. The robot integrates a humanoid body, 16 active degrees of freedom in the head, 81 passive degrees of freedom in the body, binocular vision, dual-microphone hearing, a multimodal emotional large model, a companion intelligent agent, and short-, medium-, and long-term memory systems. Its core computing relies on the RK3576 chip and 8GB+64GB storage, supporting localized perception, decision-making, and memory storage, with visual data and chat data not connected to the internet to ensure user privacy. Visual recognition, memory storage, and tactile feedback all operate in a closed loop locally, with no data uploaded to the cloud. Chunshui Tang explicitly stated that visuals stay local and memory stays out of the cloud, eliminating concerns about data leakage from private spaces.

In its development, Chunshui Tang specifically concentrated the 16 active degrees of freedom on the head and facial expressions to create natural eye contact, gentle smiles, and coordinated lip movements, rather than distributing them evenly across the entire body. The company stated that companion robots are long-term fixtures in users' private living spaces, and the closeness of facial expressions and stability of expressions directly determine whether users are willing to regard them as companions. To this end, Chunshui Tang leveraged nine years of humanoid body development experience, including facial sculpting, makeup techniques, and expression control systems, striving to overcome the common "uncanny valley" effect in humanoid robots, ensuring the product remains natural and non-eerie in both first impressions and long-term interaction. The body is equipped with 81 passive degrees of freedom, allowing users to manually adjust postures; it also features five tactile sensors positioned in areas close to the body for companionship, and establishes a "body tactile intelligent feedback model" that provides differentiated responses based on touch location, duration, and rhythm. Additionally, the product includes a body temperature system and tactile feedback, aiming to create a genuine "sense of physical presence."

Chunshui Tang summarizes the product experience in five phrases: "She will see you," "She will proactively chat with you," "She will respond to you," "She will remember you," and "She will accompany you with both emotion and body." Its multimodal emotional large model and companion intelligent agent are responsible for understanding visual, voice, tactile, posture, and temporal information, combined with historical memory, to determine when to initiate conversation and in what tone and topic, distinguishing it from passive "question-and-answer" interactions.

Chunshui Tang's wholly-owned subsidiary, Shenzhen Elephant Antai Technology Co., Ltd., has been continuously investing in the development of humanoid service robots since around 2020, with related commercial products reaching mature mass production in 2025. The newly released companion robot represents a downgrade of commercial robot technology to consumer-grade products, integrating 23 years of understanding intimate relationships and nine years of humanoid body experience. Chunshui Tang stated that for people who live alone long-term, experience periodic loneliness, lack stable emotional responses, or desire private and controllable companionship, this product could genuinely change the solo living experience. Additionally, Chunshui Tang revealed plans to develop elderly companion robots in the future, featuring safety monitoring and health reminder functions for emotional companionship.