A humanoid robot you can add to a shopping cart is no longer a concept video. One Chinese carmaker's robotics arm is now selling its humanoid (人形机器人) overseas — and the interesting part is not the hardware, it is the distribution machine behind it.
AiMOGA Robotics, the embodied-intelligence (具身智能) affiliate of China's largest auto exporter, Chery (奇瑞), launched its flagship Mornine M1 into direct consumer and business sales on JD.com (京东) on 13 April 2026, with deliveries beginning in late May. Chery holds roughly a 77% stake in AiMOGA.
The product on the shelf
The Mornine M1 is a full-size service humanoid:
- Height: 167 cm, weight: 70 kg.
- Degrees of freedom: 40 (excluding hands), with dual-arm coordinated movement.
- Walking speed: up to 1 m/s; battery: 0.7 kWh, about 2 hours of runtime per charge.
- Sensors: 3D LiDAR, two depth cameras, a wide-angle camera, and four ultrasonic units.
- Price: 285,800 yuan (≈ US$41,400).
It is multilingual (the company cites 11 languages), can open a car door autonomously using onboard sensors, and is built for showroom reception, retail, and light public-service roles rather than factory labor — its 1.5 kg per-arm payload rules out heavy manual work.
The export claim
Here is the part that separates AiMOGA from most Chinese humanoid makers, which still deploy overwhelmingly at home. In a 8 September 2026 statement reported by international outlets, Chery International President and AiMOGA Robotics President Zhang Guibing said the company's cumulative robot deliveries into international markets had passed 2,000 units across more than 60 countries and regions, spanning Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. Coverage from the World Robot Conference 2026 echoed the same footprint figure.
AiMOGA says it has signed 300+ distributors and leaned on Chery's global dealer, financing, and service network — the unglamorous advantage of being owned by a car company that already sells in dozens of markets. It has also deployed, per Reuters-cited reporting, around 110 humanoid police robots across several Chinese cities for traffic management and public-safety campaigns. The company has set a target of 10,000 global deliveries in 2027.
Why certification matters
Mornine M1 carries EU certifications — CE-MD (machinery safety), CE-RED (radio equipment), and EN 18031 (cybersecurity and data protection) — and US FCC certification. AiMOGA describes it as the first humanoid to hold that combination of EU standards, a claim tied to its own testing and certification bodies. For a robot meant to operate in public spaces and handle personal data, those marks are less a badge than a precondition for selling abroad at all.
The automaker-robot pivot
AiMOGA is one data point in a broader shift: Chinese carmakers are becoming humanoid builders. Chery's smart-cockpit, electronic-architecture, and multimodal-interaction know-how transferred directly into a robot that greets customers and explains vehicles. The same pattern appears at XPeng, GAC, Xiaomi, and BYD, each betting that vehicle-grade manufacturing and supply chains shorten the path from prototype to product.
What makes AiMOGA's story distinct is that it went straight to a buyable, exportable product with certifications and a dealer channel, rather than keeping robots inside its own factories. The trade-off is capability: this is a greeter and guide, not a general-purpose laborer.
Honest limitations
- The 2,000-units-overseas / 60+ countries figures are company-reported — from Chery International's September 2026 statement and World Robot Conference coverage — and were not independently audited in this review. Treat them as management claims, not verified shipment counts.
- Mornine is a service and reception robot (1.5 kg arm payload, 1 m/s walking). "Export" here means commercial and public-service deployment, not industrial or manufacturing labor.
- Independent confirmation of total unit sales since the JD.com listing was not available; the certification "first of its kind" claim is the company's own.
- Robotics deployment in public spaces carries unresolved questions on safety, data protection, and local regulation that vary by market.
What readers can do now
- If you run a dealership, museum, or reception space, evaluate Mornine through Chery's distributor network rather than assuming you must build a robot in-house.
- For any robotics purchase, treat CE/FCC certification as a baseline for deployability abroad — it signals the boring compliance work is done.
- Track AiMOGA's 2027 10,000-unit target as a real export benchmark; if met, it would make this one of the first globally distributed Chinese humanoids.