Qiyuan opens September robot preorders

Shangwei’s Qiyuan brand opened public preorders for its Q1 and T1 personal robots, with first shipments expected in September and a 1,000-yuan deposit counting as 2,000 yuan toward the purchase, Sina Finance reports. The company is moving from demos to household orders, but the real test is delivery and reliability at scale; builders should track the promised first batch beside the archive’s physical-AI capital thesis.