Jupiter
Made by Zeroth Robotics
Photo: Zeroth Robotics
- modes
- teleoperation + autonomous dual mode
- height cm
- 165
- positioning
- training, simulation, and front-of-house service
Who's exposed
Jobs in the threat radius
- front-desk receptionist
- hotel greeter
- showroom attendant
- convention usher
Deployment status
Orderable directly on the company site at $89,999 (marked down from a $131,999 list) with an originally announced ship estimate of April 15, 2026. As of July 2026 we found no public evidence of a delivered or deployed Jupiter unit — a fact this entry states plainly. Company-level signals are stronger: a five-product CES 2026 debut and US market entry, 30,000+ robot orders and 600% year-over-year revenue growth in H1 2026 (driven mainly by the consumer line), and a $74M pre-Series A led by Ant Group in July 2026 with Geely Capital and 37 Interactive Entertainment participating. North America and Europe expansion is planned for fall 2026.
When this hits the labor market
Jupiter hasn't shipped, so displacement talk is premature; what earns it a catalog entry is the model. Teleoperation-plus-autonomy means front-desk, greeter, and showroom roles don't have to wait for full autonomy — a remote human operator driving an on-site machine body is commercially viable with today's technology. If the route works, the first step isn't job elimination but job relocation: from the hotel lobby to a remote operations center, one person watching several machines. We estimate scaled pilots in North American hotels and showrooms within 2-4 years — conditional on the robot actually shipping.
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$89,999, reserve on the website
At CES 2026, Zeroth Robotics unveiled five product lines at once: the desktop companion M1, the wheeled W1, a Disney-licensed WALL·E, the quadruped A1 — and Jupiter, a 1.65-meter full-size humanoid. The first four are consumer products. Jupiter is the enterprise play. It’s listed on the company’s own store at $89,999, marked down from $131,999, behind a Reserve Now button — pricing and channel borrowed from consumer electronics, not the contact-sales ritual of traditional robotics.
The caveat goes up front: the originally announced ship estimate was April 15, 2026, and as of July we can find no public evidence that a single Jupiter has been delivered or deployed. This entry records a loud promise, not a verified product.
Ant’s money, thirty thousand orders
The company-level numbers are real, though. On July 8, 2026, Zeroth announced a $74 million pre-Series A led by Ant Group, with Geely Capital, 37 Interactive Entertainment, and Hua Capital participating. The company reports 30,000+ robot orders and 600% year-over-year revenue growth for the first half of 2026 — driven, note, by the consumer line that starts at $2,499, not by Jupiter. Ant has now backed twelve humanoid companies in eighteen months; Zeroth is the latest. Consumer volume for cash, an enterprise flagship for the story, and megacap capital for fuel: the standard 2026 configuration for a Chinese humanoid startup.
Why we care for LostJobs
Jupiter’s stated positioning is blunt: training, simulation, and front-of-house service, with dual teleoperation and autonomous modes. The dual mode is the point. Reception and greeter roles don’t follow factory logic — they don’t require full autonomy, because a remote operator plus an on-site machine body can start earning revenue with current technology. The first wave of impact on these jobs isn’t disappearance but displacement: the person standing in the lobby becomes a person in a remote center watching four machines, at a quarter of the headcount. We’re cataloging Jupiter as a bet on the route, not the robot. If it ships on schedule and reaches North American hotels this fall, the timeline for front-desk work gets redrawn. If it keeps slipping, it becomes another data point that a reservation page is not a product. Either outcome gets recorded in our weekly verification pass.