A Chinese company will debut its Quester1 shape-shifting personal robot at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), which will open in Shanghai on Friday, July 17, 2026. The Quester1, built around a single chassis, can automatically switch between wheeled bipedal and quadrupedal forms, allowing it to adapt to environments and handle scenarios such as home companionship, outdoor escort, and smart filming, according to Swancor Advanced Materials Co, the maker of the robot. The robot uses an industry-first "transformer cross-morphology integrated architecture" for fully automatic, smooth switching among forms on a single chassis. Swancor noted that unlike traditional personal robots stuck in one fixed shape, the Quester1 offers two morphologies on the same body. As other examples of multi-morphology robots, Unitree Robotics launched its manned transformable mecha GD01 in May 2026, a 2.7-meter-tall, 500-kilogram machine. In December 2025, LimX Dynamics unveiled LimX TRON 2, a modular, 3-in-1 embodied AI robot. In January, China's Southern University of Science and Technology developed the GrowHR soft-bodied extendable robot, which stands at 1.36 meters and weighs only 4.5 kilograms.