Yuanqizai (元气仔, Yuánqìzǎi)

Yuanqizai (元气仔, Yuánqìzǎi) is the smaller of Honor's two humanoids: a silver-coloured interaction robot exactly 136.9 cm tall that the Shenzhen company intends to place in its own stores for greeting customers, guided tours and sales support.

Before any retail debut it was entered in the Beijing E-Town humanoid half marathon on 19 April 2026, where four Honor teams ran Yuanqizai units next to six teams fielding the taller Lightning. According to 36Kr the small robot received the special award for best gait; no finishing time or ranking has been reported for it.

Technical information is sparse: electric drive, prototype status in 2026, no published weight, sensors, degrees of freedom or runtime. Pricing has not been announced, so the catalogue lists it on request. It is possible that Yuanqizai was the Honor robot behind the Rongyao Shuangchi team's bronze in the small-class 100 m at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games (12.19 s), but no source confirms this link.

The robot illustrates a pattern among Chinese makers of proving service humanoids in public races before selling them; Noetix followed a similar path with the Noetix N2, which ran in 2025 and later won floor gymnastics.