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Lumi

Name: Lightberry Lumi
Brand: Lightberry
Price: 39990 USD
Availability: PreOrder

Developer / demo platformConsumer availablePreorder

Lightberry's Lumi is a 1.3 m interactive humanoid built on a Unitree G1 body, with Lightberry's own head, cameras, microphones, Jetson Thor computer and software. $39,990 for the 100-unit Founder Edition with a $200 refundable deposit, shipping in 2026, and the only humanoid exempted from the FCC's ban on new foreign-made robots.

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Price and specifications: Founder Edition

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What is in the crate

6 included|4 not included

Hands

Grippers, not dexterous hands

Each arm ends in a parallel gripper with one degree of freedom (Lightberry's hardware docs). They suit handing over a flyer or a gesture, not dexterous manipulation; Lightberry publishes no grip force or payload.

In the crate

Lumi: a Unitree G1 body (29 joints) with Lightberry's head (nod, shake and tilt), 34 degrees of freedom in all A 1-DoF parallel gripper on each arm NVIDIA Jetson Thor T4000 with 64 GiB of memory and 500 GiB of storage Stereo cameras (1920 x 1200 per eye, 30 FPS), an eight-microphone array and two IMUs 421 Wh battery for 2.5 to 3.5 hours Lightberry OS, 1 year of Lightberry software access and direct Slack support

You still have to add

Lightberry software after the first year (price not published) A published delivery date, warranty or terms of sale Offline operation: understanding and planning run in Lightberry's cloud agent Delivery outside the US (not stated)

Day oneLightberry says Lumi works from the moment it arrives with no robotics team.

Reality check

It is a Unitree G1 with Lightberry's head, sensors and software at almost three times the base G1's price, the price covers only one year of the software that makes it Lumi, and no buyer has posted a delivered unit yet.

Can you get one, and what will it cost?

A planning estimate with machine, freight, duty, and tax shown separately.

Configuration: Founder Edition

Yes

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US authorization: Exempt from the FCC Covered List under a Department of War Conditional Approval (FCC Public Notice DA 26-1181, 30 October 2026), so it can be sold in the US while the maker keeps to the onshoring plan the approval is tied to. Every humanoid you can still buy in the US

Grippers, not dexterous hands

Spare batteries and other accessories are excluded. Confirm compatibility and pricing with the seller.

Machinebase: $39,990
Freightlocal delivery: $101 - $393
Import duty0%: 0
Sales tax0%: 0
Broker and handling: 0
Estimated total to United States: $40,091 - $40,383

Converted from euros at 1.1225 USD per euro (ECB reference rate, 2 October 2026): €35,716 - €35,976 in euros.

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~$40,091 - $40,383

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Where to buy

Catalog checked 2026-11

Individuals and companies can inquire. Confirm the configuration, stock, and delivery with the seller.

The order page takes the $200 deposit with no business or research check, though Lightberry says it sells Lumi directly to businesses with non-technical teams.

Price notes: $39,990 for the Founder Edition, a first run of 100 units, reserved with a $200 deposit that Lightberry calls fully refundable (order page, read 5 Nov 2026). It includes 1 year of Lightberry software access, which Lightberry values at $20,000, and direct Slack support; the price of the software after that year is not published. Lightberry says it will bring hardware pricing into the $20,000 range after the 100 units.

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Founder Edition
Preorder; confirm delivery date · Checked 2026-11-05
Founder Edition, first 100 units, $200 fully refundable deposit today; 'Early shipping within the first 100 units starting in 2026', with no date. Includes 1 year of Lightberry software access and direct Slack support.
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How the Lumi rates

Editorial ratings based on listed specifications and sales availability. They do not measure task performance, autonomy, or reliability.

Class: Developer / demo platformA platform for demonstrations or robotics development. SDK access and supported tasks depend on the exact configuration.
CapabilityHardware specification indicators: 3/5; Baseline: any humanoid+1
Degrees of freedom: 34 DOF+1.5
Dexterity: grippers, not dexterous hands+0.25
Scale: 130 cm tall+0.5
MaturitySales availability indicators: 3/5; How it sells: preorder+3

Key specifications

Height

130 cm

Width

n/a

Depth

n/a

Weight

40 kg

Degrees of freedom

Battery

~150 min

Payload

n/a

Top speed

n/a

Understand before you buy

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Market activity

Full tracker

Oct 30, 2026The FCC clears its first humanoid under the foreign-robot rule: Lightberry's Lumi, built on a Unitree G1Regulation

The maker's shares

All makers

Lightberry: Private: its shares do not trade on any exchange.

Lightberry is a San Francisco start-up founded in 2025 by Ali Attar and Stephan Koenigstorfer, in Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch with a team of 3; no funding round has been publicly disclosed and there is no listing step.

Size to scale

Drawn next to a 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) person. Every robot on the site uses this same reference, so you can trust the comparison at a glance.

Lumi: 130 cm / 4 ft 3 in, 40 kg

About the Lumibackground, hardware and buying reality

Lightberry, a San Francisco start-up led by co-founder and CEO Ali Attar, unveiled Lumi in late August 2026 as 'the world's most interactive robot'. On 30 October 2026 the FCC exempted the Lumi line from its Covered List after the Department of War granted it a Conditional Approval (Public Notice DA 26-1181), the only humanoid among the twelve robot lines approved by then. Lightberry says it won the approval with two commitments: replacing the G1's sensors, onboard computer and software with its own, and building Lumi in the US, starting with the body, head and hands; the approval is tied to that plan and to ongoing vetting. Lumi has 34 degrees of freedom (3 in the head, 3 in the torso, 7 per arm, 6 per leg and a 1-DoF gripper per hand), weighs about 40 kg and runs 2.5 to 3.5 hours on a 421 Wh battery.

What it does on day onewith zero programming

Lightberry says Lumi works from the moment it arrives with no robotics team: it talks with people, answers questions, tells stories, takes photos, looks up information and guides visitors, and you change its personality, voice and knowledge by talking to it. Perception and motion run on the robot; understanding and planning run in Lightberry's cloud agent.

Best for: Venues, events, retail and hospitality teams in the US that want a talking, photo-taking humanoid host that works without a robotics team, and buyers who need a humanoid cleared under the FCC's foreign-robot rule.

Documented uses

Demo / showpiece

Lightberry's product page and its 30 October 2026 release describe Lumi as a robot for venues and events that holds conversations, answers questions, tells stories, entertains a crowd, takes photos, looks up information and guides people, sold to businesses with non-technical teams.

The Founder Edition ships 'in 2026' with no date and no buyer has posted a delivered unit; understanding and planning run in Lightberry's cloud agent, so it needs a network connection, and the price includes one year of Lightberry software access.

Source reviewed 2026-11-05

Assessment from published documentation, not an independent performance test. Applies to the configuration described above.

What it takes to developskills, gear, and SDK access

Nothing for the built-in behaviours beyond a network connection. To add your own, write extensions (Lightberry recommends containers) that run on the robot's Jetson Thor beside Lightberry's software and connect through the Lightberry SDK.

SDK access: Lightberry SDK and a documented extension model: your code runs on the robot's custom Linux (based on NVIDIA Jetson Linux 39.2, with CUDA 13.2 and TensorRT 10.16) next to Lightberry's software, which keeps the sensors, compute and cloud agent. Lightberry replaced the G1's sensors, onboard computer and software with its own as part of its US approval; low-level joint control is not documented.

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