Published on: May 13, 2025 / update from: May 13, 2025 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein
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Lenovo presents his first humanoid robot and wants to revolutionize the service sector
Tech World 2025: Lenovo penetrates into new business areas with intelligent robot assistants
Lenovo has with the Lexiang No. 1 presented his first humanoid robot at Tech World 2025 (May 7, 2025) in the Shanghai Expo Center. The Chinese technology group thus takes an important step towards embodied artificial intelligence and extends its business area beyond traditional hardware. With this intelligent assistant, Lenovo aims particularly at areas of application in the service sector such as geriatric care and hospitals. The introduction of this humanoid robot marks the entry of the company into a rapidly growing market and could fundamentally change the way services are provided.
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Presentation and technical properties
The Lexiang No. 1 was presented at the Tech World 2025 in Shanghai as a “Silicon Employee” (silicon employee) and impressed with its smooth movements and advanced AI skills. With a height of about one meter, the robot demonstrated its embodied intelligence through a Tai-Chi exercise during the presentation, a traditional Chinese martial art training, which is known for its slow, controlled movements and the focus on balance.
Lenovos CEO Yang Yuanqing emphasized during the performance: "Today, many Lenovo still see a device company, but in the future intelligent agents could become the core of our business". This statement underlines the strategic change of the company and the growing importance of AI technologies in its business model.
The robot is equipped with a three-layer intelligent framework for its technical skills, which enables it to interact with various devices and use data within the Lenovo ecosystem. This framework includes:
- Natural multimodal interactions for proactive communication
- Integration of local knowledge over devices, platforms and ecosystems
- Advanced task autonomy and orchestration
According to Lenovos CTO Tolga Kurtoclu, security and data protection are basic design principles that are embedded in all three skills.
Advanced AI integration and areas of application
The Lexiang No. In his idea, 1 demonstrated impressively how he can access Lenovo's comprehensive business data and answer questions in natural language. This is an example of the practical application of its artificial intelligence in a corporate environment and shows the potential for operations in the service sector.
Lenovo's strategy for corporate intelligence is based on a four-layer “device-edge-cloud network” architecture that forms a hybrid computing infrastructure. This integrates both public and private cloud platforms and supports data collection, storage and processing with intelligent planning that sends data to hybrid clouds for AI model training.
Lenovo plans, the Lexiang No. 1 first to use in the service sector, with a special focus on geriatric care and use in hospitals. These areas offer enormous potential for humanoid robots to meet the increasing need for support and care. The decision for these areas of application could be an answer to social challenges such as demographic change and the shortage of skilled workers in the healthcare system.
Appearance at the Beijing Humanoid Robot Sports Competition
Before the Lexiang No. 1 Lenovo is planning to present the robot's skills at Beijing Humanoid Robot Sports Competition in August 2025. In this newly created competition, humanoid robots compete against each other in various disciplines such as gymnastics and football and demonstrate their agile skills.
This event is part of a larger trend to promote robot competitions. As can be seen from the search results, China announced that it was to align the World Humanoid robots in actual Olympic venues in August, in which robots in athletics, gymnastics and even football compete against each other. Such events not only serve the technological demonstration, but also promote the further development and optimization of robot technology through the competition.
Lenovo in the context of the growing market for humanoid robots
With the introduction of the Lexiang No. 1 lantages Lenovo into a growing list of companies that develop humanoid robots. The industry is currently experiencing a significant upswing, as the activities of other manufacturers show:
UNITREE has upgraded his humanoid G1 robot with a AI system called AMO, which enables him to control real-time guest bodies. The UNTEREE G1 is offered for around $ 16,000 and is slightly smaller than an average adult with a size of 1.32 meters and a weight of 35 kilograms. It is equipped with a 360-degree Lidar scanner and an Intel RealSense D435 depth camera.
Figure Ai has already delivered his humanoid robot Figure 02 to the first customer. This robot has six RGB cameras, deep cameras and infrared sensors for a complete 360-degree round interaction and is said to achieve human precision with 16 degrees of freedom in the hands.
Lenovo himself has gained experience with robotics earlier. In January 2025, the company presented at NRF 2025 in New York City Retail Robotics solutions in partnership with Yunji Technology. These offer automated provision of food, guest articles and small packages for customers in hotels and shopping centers.
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Potentials and effects on the service sector
The introduction of Lexiang No. 1 could have far -reaching effects on the service industry. Experts see humanoid robots a way to compensate for the shortage of skilled workers and at the same time improve the efficiency and quality of the services.
The integration of embodied and artificial intelligence enables the robot to act as a “intelligent agent” in different situations. This could be particularly valuable in areas such as geriatric care and health care, where the need for support is growing steadily.
Lenovo positions himself with the Lexiang No. 1 as a pioneer in an up -and -coming market segment, which should continue to become more important in the coming years. CEO Yang Yuanqing indicated that intelligent agents could become the core of the Lenovo business in the future, which is a significant strategic change for the company.
Like the Lexiang No. 1 could transform the service industry
Lenovo's introduction to the world of humanoid robotics with the Lexiang No. 1 shows how established technology companies are increasingly relying on innovative technologies to open up new business areas and optimize existing processes. The Lexiang No. 1 Connects progressive AI systems with physical skills and could thus fundamentally change the way in which services are provided, especially in the health and care sector.
The development and integration of such robots could set new standards for efficiency and quality in the service industry. At the same time, she raises important questions about the social effects, ethical considerations and future human-robot interaction.
The coming years will show how well the Lexiang No. 1 and similar humanoid robots actually work in practice and how they are adopted by users and recipients of the services. Success will not only depend on the technical skills, but also on how well these robots can be integrated into existing systems and whether they can create real added value in service provision.
With the participation of the Lexiang No. 1 At the Beijing Humanoid Robot Sports Competition in August 2025 and the planned operations in geriatric care and hospitals, we will soon learn more about the practical skills and the potential of Lenovo's first humanoid robot.
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