KUAVO-MY vs Cruzr S2: Humanoid Robot Comparison

KUAVO-MY is a 166 cm, 55 kg biped with 22 degrees of freedom, or 28 on the exhibition version with a moving head and dexterous hands. Cruzr S2 is a 176 cm wheeled humanoid with 44 degrees of freedom, 22 of them in its two 11-joint hands, and a flexible waist that rotates ±170°, bends from +90° to -35° and lifts 40 cm. That waist lets Cruzr S2 reach anywhere from the floor to 1.8 m without legs. KUAVO-MY spends its joints on walking, while Cruzr S2 spends them on hands and reach.

KUAVO-MY walks at 0.4 m/s, can run at up to 5 km/h and maps its surroundings with a 3D LiDAR and a depth camera. Cruzr S2 rolls at 2 m/s, five times KUAVO-MY's walking pace, turns around in a 0.8 m passage and steers with stereo vision plus front and rear radars. Cruzr S2 covers ground faster in shops, offices and factories with flat floors. KUAVO-MY's walking gait is the attraction for research and demonstrations.

KUAVO-MY carries an Orbbec Gemini 335L depth camera, a Livox Mid-360 3D LiDAR, an IMU, a six-microphone array that locates sounds in 360° and temperature sensors in its joints. Cruzr S2 sees through two fisheye and two RGB cameras plus RGB-D cameras in its chest and base, with radars at both ends of its base, six-axis force sensors in its wrists and tactile arrays in its hands. Cruzr S2's touch and force sensing make it better equipped for handling. KUAVO-MY's LiDAR and 360° sound localisation suit mapping and guiding visitors.

KUAVO-MY learns tasks by imitation from recorded demonstrations and answers questions through a large-model Q&A system on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX. Cruzr S2 plans work with UBTECH's Co-Agent, which UBTECH calls the first industrial agent for humanoid robots, and talks with people through a large language model. Both can hold a conversation. KUAVO-MY is aimed at teams that teach it new skills, while Cruzr S2 arrives set up for enterprise tasks.

KUAVO-MY's 60 V, 6 Ah battery gives about an hour of walking and recharges in 1.5 hours or less. UBTECH has not published Cruzr S2's battery capacity or runtime; it charges through a fast-charging port in its base. KUAVO-MY's hour is fine for demonstrations but short for a working day. Ask UBTECH for Cruzr S2's runtime under your workload.

Leju aims KUAVO-MY at research labs, exhibition and shopping guidance, education and industrial trials. UBTECH pitches Cruzr S2 at sorting and component assembly, enterprise operations and customer-facing service. Both can guide and talk to visitors, but only Cruzr S2 is built for assembly-style handling. Choose KUAVO-MY for research, demonstrations and guided tours, or Cruzr S2 for sorting, assembly and customer service on wheels.

KUAVO-MY uses Leju's open ROS-based kuavo-ros-control stack for secondary development, and the KUAVO-MY edition runs the OpenHarmony-based KaihongOS. Cruzr S2 runs UBTECH's Co-Agent industrial agent with learning-based motion control and offers Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0 for wired integration. KUAVO-MY is the more open platform for developers. Cruzr S2 is built for businesses that want working behaviour out of the box.

KUAVO-MY has an emergency stop on its body, a low-battery alarm and temperature monitoring in its joints. Cruzr S2 has an emergency stop button, radars at the front and rear of its base and force sensing in its wrists. Cruzr S2's radars and wrist sensing give it more ways to detect people and contact around it. Neither company lists safety certifications for its robot.