Zerith Z1

Zerith Z1 was the first robot of Zerith Robotics in Hefei, a company spun out of Tsinghua University in January 2025. According to the Japanese edition of 36Kr in September 2025, the bipedal Z1 was released in February 2025, and by May of the same year the company had already presented the wheeled ZERITH H1.

The same article mentions a target of 500 robots built in 2025 and angel rounds of roughly 100 million CNY, with no breakdown by model. That is where the information ends: neither press nor maker has given a height, weight, joint count, carrying capacity, runtime or equipment list for the Z1.

Moreover, in October 2026 the zerith.com site shows only ZERITH H1 and a product called ZERITH DATA, so the Z1 has disappeared from the range. For that reason the catalogue treats it as a prototype even though third-party listings describe it as in production; values from those listings are not adopted.

The same listings assigned it service tasks and navigation in business environments, which the maker does not confirm. No price was ever announced and price on request applies. Anyone looking for a Zerith robot today will find only the wheeled H1 on offer.