Jupiter
Made by Zeroth Robotics
Photo: Zeroth Robotics
- modes
- teleoperation + autonomous dual mode
- 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
[Re-verified 2026-10-11: demoted from pre-order to announced.] Zeroth's product page lists Jupiter at a $89,999 sale price (an unexplained $131,999 figure sits beside it), but the listing now reads sold out and states no ship or delivery date. The April 15, 2026 ship estimate our earlier entry carried came from a site on our low-trust list; the traceable sources attach April to the M1 and W1 consumer robots, not to Jupiter, so we have withdrawn it and the 'five months overdue' framing built on it. Without a verifiable window, pre-order no longer fits. humanoid.guide (October 1, 2026) lists Jupiter as early production with limited release availability and names no customers. We found no delivered or deployed unit. Company-level signals stand: a five-product CES 2026 debut and US market entry, and a roughly $74M (RMB 500M) pre-Series A led by Ant Group in early July 2026 with Monolith, Geely Capital, 37 Interactive Entertainment and Hua Capital. The company reports 30,000+ orders and 600% first-half revenue growth, credited to the M1 and W1 and not broken out by product. The funding coverage presents Jupiter as a full-size humanoid for the home, a different pitch from the front-of-house positioning on the product page.
When this hits the labor market
Jupiter has no verifiable ship window, 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 operator driving an on-site machine body is commercially viable with today's technology. If it works, the first step is job relocation, from the hotel lobby to a remote operations center where one person watches several machines. We estimate scaled North American pilots in hotels and showrooms within 2-4 years, conditional on Jupiter actually reaching customers.
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Sold out, with no ship date
At CES 2026, Zeroth Robotics showed five product lines at once. The M1 and W1 are consumer robots. Jupiter is the full-size humanoid. Its product page prices it at $89,999 behind Reserve Now and Buy buttons, with a $131,999 figure beside it that the page never explains. That is consumer-electronics retail, not the contact-sales ritual of traditional robotics.
Today the same page says sold out, and it gives no ship or delivery date. humanoid.guide’s October listing calls Jupiter early production with limited release availability and names no customer.
A correction to our earlier entry
We had written that Jupiter’s April 15, 2026 ship date was nearly five months overdue. We have withdrawn that. The date came from a site on our low-trust list, and when we traced it, April belongs to the M1 and W1, not Jupiter. We also said the July funding announcement never mentioned Jupiter. It does, as a full-size home humanoid. What it doesn’t do is credit Jupiter with any of the growth: the 30,000+ orders and 600% first-half revenue growth sit with the M1 and W1.
So the picture is thinner than we described, and also less damning. A product with a price, a sold-out flag and no date is not a late product. It is an unscheduled one. We have moved it from pre-order to announced, because pre-order needs a window we can verify and we no longer have one. Nothing we found says cancelled or refunded.
Why we care for LostJobs
The company is real. Ant Group led a roughly $74M pre-Series A in early July, its twelfth humanoid deal in 18 months, with Geely Capital, 37 Interactive and Hua Capital in the round. Consumer volume pays the bills while the enterprise flagship carries the story.
Jupiter’s listed positioning is training, simulation and front-of-house service, with teleoperation and autonomous modes. The dual mode is the point. Reception and greeter roles don’t need full autonomy, because a remote human plus an on-site machine body can earn revenue now. The first effect is not disappearance but relocation: the person in the lobby becomes a person in a remote center watching several machines. We are cataloging a bet on that route, not a shipping robot. We will check the product page again in 30 days.