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The Shenzhen maker's CEO pegs the factory and household tier manufacturing cost at under RMB 100,000. EngineAI's T800 flagship still lists at 188,000 yuan at retail, and the sub RMB 100,000 figure is company attested.
EngineAI, a Shenzhen-based humanoid robot maker, says its general-purpose robots for factory and household work now cost less than RMB 100,000 (about $14,000) per unit to build (TechNode; EngineAI). CEO Zhao Tongyang ties that figure to a category the company defines by "practical tasks," explicitly excluding toy products.
Three years ago, comparable robots cost more than RMB 1 million (roughly $140,000), per the same CEO statement relayed through Chinese press (IT Home). The "under $14,000" figure describes a manufacturing-tier cost of goods. It does not cover EngineAI's T800 flagship, which lists at 188,000 yuan at retail per industry press (Gasgoo).
EngineAI began mass delivery of the T800 from a new Shenzhen intelligent manufacturing base in the days before the cost statement (PR Newswire). The company frames itself inside a Chinese industry that builds roughly 85% of the world's humanoids, where costs have already enabled mail-sorting and household pilots (Fortune).
The headline number remains company-attested: no independent unit-economics validation, gross margin, or shipment volume for the sub-RMB 100,000 tier has been published.