At 172 centimeters and 72 kilograms, Topstar's new humanoid is built to the proportions of a factory floor, not a trade-show stage. The company unveiled Star, its first full-size bipedal humanoid robot, at the "TOPS DAY 2026" global open day in Dongguan on Nov. 11, positioning it as a machine meant to slot into production lines that already exist rather than one designed around demos, according to Pandaily.
Each of Star's two 7-axis arms carries a 10-kilogram load capacity and uses cross-axis wrist joints designed to mimic human wrist movement more closely than conventional industrial arms. Topstar says the robot's primary jobs are material handling and sorting, tasks the company already automates with wheeled platforms and fixed workstations across client factories.
A sorting-and-logistics company adds legs
Topstar did not start as a humanoid company. It builds embodied-intelligence robots and flexible sorting workstations that are already running in client workshops, and in January 2026 it launched a quadruped called Xingzai for inspection and forest-firefighting work. Star extends that lineup into bipedal form rather than replacing it, giving Topstar wheeled robots, a quadruped and now a humanoid under one roof.
The company frames its approach as a "scenario plus robot plus data plus AI" closed loop: Star is meant to capture physical scene data during real operations and feed it back into the AI models that control its movement, rather than relying solely on simulation or isolated demo footage. Topstar has not disclosed a mass-production timeline, pricing or an initial customer list for Star.
Supply chain moves alongside the robot
Topstar used the same event to unveil the S400, a five-axis machine built by its subsidiary Avmi for precision machining of humanoid robot joints, and announced a procurement agreement with Kaihang Technology. Pairing a humanoid launch with a component-machining tool signals that Topstar is trying to control more of its own supply chain rather than depend entirely on outside joint and actuator suppliers, a bottleneck JPMorgan and other analysts have flagged as the binding constraint on humanoid production volumes industry-wide.
Star enters a crowded field of Chinese industrial humanoids positioning themselves for factory work rather than research or entertainment, competing for the same warehouse and assembly contracts now being chased by UBTECH, AgiBot and Unitree. Topstar's bet is that its existing base of sorting and material-handling customers gives Star a faster route to paid deployments than humanoid makers starting from a research platform.