Leju Kuavo-5

What it's for

The Kuavo-5 is a Chinese humanoid with one trait that is rare in this industry: we know its price from a financial document. According to the IPO prospectus of its maker, Leju Robotics, the average selling price fell from about CNY 413,900 in 2024 to about CNY 308,100 in 2025 (roughly $45,500). That is a signal that the robot is actually reaching customers, and not only the stage at trade fairs.

The manufacturer lists industry, automation and home services. In industry, 40 degrees of freedom (DOF) and a stereoscopic depth camera make it possible to program the robot for simple transport operations: carrying light containers or tending an inspection station. A six-microphone array and LiDAR add the senses it needs to move among people and respond to voice. In teaching and research, the Kuavo-5 serves as a platform for imitation learning: an operator demonstrates a movement and the robot learns to reproduce it; the software is based on KaihongOS, a system derived from HarmonyOS.

In practice, for now, the Kuavo-5 is more a robot for R&D teams and technology demonstrations than a line operator. Its status in our listing is “prototype,” and a third-party aggregator also labels it a Prototype. We therefore treat industrial scenarios as a direction, not a confirmed capability. The sources give no data on payload, walking speed or battery life, so there is no way to judge whether it would last a working shift. At 55 kg it is not a heavy machine: for the safety of people around it that is an advantage, for carrying loads a limitation.

A closer look at applications on factory floors is in the article “Humanoid Robots in Factories 2026”, and for education see the pages “Schools” and universities.

Who it's for

The Kuavo-5 is for laboratories and technology companies that follow the Chinese humanoid market and want a physical unit for testing algorithms, especially imitation learning. It will interest teams that want to try the software based on KaihongOS, rare in this industry, instead of the usual Linux.

It is not a robot for plants that need a confirmed payload, run time and service. The manufacturer concentrates on the Chinese market, the robot is not officially available in Poland or in Europe, and the sources contain no data on run time or payload. We also do not recommend it as a “robot for the home”: although home services appear among its applications, there is no evidence the product is ready for use in dwellings, and a price in the range of $38,000-45,000 rules it out of the consumer market.

Deployments

The IPO prospectus speaks of sales but does not say who buys the Kuavo-5 or for what tasks, so we cannot name customers. Wider background on the Chinese humanoid market is in the article “Chinese Humanoid Robots”, and better-documented deployments in the category are Agility Digit in warehouses (“Agility Digit in Warehouses”) and Apptronik Apollo with Mercedes (“Apptronik Apollo in Mercedes-Benz Factories”).

The Unitree H2 is 180 cm tall with 31 DOF, priced at $29,900 (about PLN 115,900 (≈ EUR 26,510)), and it is actually on sale. The Booster T1 costs about $33,949 (about PLN 131,600 (≈ EUR 30,100)); it is a shorter, 118 cm robot with 23 degrees of freedom, meant for programming and competitions rather than human-scale work. The AgiBot A2 at about $54,999 (about PLN 213,200 (≈ EUR 48,770)) offers 169 cm and 40 DOF, the specification closest to the Kuavo-5 but at a higher price. The Fourier GR-3 has 55 DOF, but its price is undisclosed. The RobotEra L7 (171 cm, 55 DOF, 20 kg payload) is available for pre-order. If price is your priority, choose Unitree; if you want human height and more degrees of freedom, look at Fourier and AgiBot.

Leju Robotics operates in China, and its production is located in Foshan, in cooperation with Dongfang Precision. Our catalog on the manufacturer mention an assembly line with a throughput of about one humanoid every 30 minutes and a target of 10,000 units a year. These are claims, not verified results. The most important documented moment in the Kuavo-5's history is the IPO prospectus, which shows the average price falling from CNY 413,900 (2024) to CNY 308,100 (2025). The sources give no launch dates for individual generations, so we do not state any. According to a third-party aggregator, the robot is 168 cm tall with 40 DOF.