Shanghai Futuring Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. - 上海未来不远机器人科技有限公司
Futuring Robot is a Shanghai startup renting its F2 general-purpose home robot to 500+ Chinese households via monthly subscription.
Futuring Robot (Shanghai Futuring Robotics Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Shanghai-based startup founded in 2022 that designs general-purpose robots for household use. The company's core engineering team includes graduates from Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Fudan University. The company positions itself as the first entrant in China focused specifically on consumer, in-home general-purpose robots rather than industrial or commercial service robots.
The company's flagship product is the F2, a general-purpose home robot built around a proprietary end-to-end model architecture the company calls AVLA, which it says is trained on data collected from real household environments rather than simulation alone. According to the company's own materials, F2 is designed to perform a range of everyday household tasks, including floor and tabletop cleaning and tidying, operating household appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, fetching and delivering objects around the home, and providing companionship for children and elderly family members.
Rather than selling F2 as a one-time purchase, Futuring Robot offers the robot through a monthly subscription model priced at RMB 3,000 per month, positioning it as a recurring home-service product rather than a conventional consumer appliance. As of the company's mid-2026 disclosures at the World Robot Conference, F2 had been deployed into more than 500 paying households in China and had accumulated more than 50,000 hours of real-world in-home service, with the company reporting a 97 percent user satisfaction rate among these deployments. The company describes this as the first commercialized deployment of a general-purpose robot into real family homes globally, a claim that has not been independently verified beyond the company's own disclosures and exhibitor materials.
Futuring Robot exhibited at the World Robot Conference (WRC) 2026 in Beijing, held at the Beijing Yizhuang International Exhibition Center, where it presented the F2 robot and related company materials under booth C136 in Exhibition Hall C. No public information was found regarding the company's total headcount, external funding history, or corporate certifications; the company's website and WRC exhibitor listing likewise do not disclose a public contact phone number, email address, or detailed street address, though company materials reference Shanghai as its base along with additional presences in Beijing and Hong Kong.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
F2
F2 is a home general-purpose robot for cleaning, appliance operation, and companionship, rented to 500+ households at RMB 3,000/month.
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Company Facts
Founded
2022
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Manufacturer
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Asia-Pacific
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Keywords
- Shanghai Futuring Robotics Technology Co.
- Ltd.
- 上海未来不远机器人科技有限公司
- Futuring Robot
- household chores
- child companionship
- elderly companionship
- item fetch-and-delivery
- appliance operation
- monthly rental model
- end-to-end AI model
- real-home deployment
- Manufacturer
- Software/Algorithm
- Consumer Robot
- Consumer & Home
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