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title: "A' Design Award 2026 in Milan: the personal robot category"
description: At the A' Design Award ceremony in Milan, PrimeBOT's Q1 and T1 became the first robots ever recognised in a category the brand itself invented, the personal ...
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-07-17T12:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-17T12:23:06.966Z
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At this year's A' Design Award ceremony in Milan, one of the design world's most closely watched annual honours, PrimeBOT's Q1 model took Gold and its newer T1 took Silver, in what organisers and the brand both describe as the first global recognition given specifically to a personal robot. The PrimeBOT design team collected both awards on behalf of the studio.

PrimeBOT has spent the past year arguing that a personal robot is not simply a smaller industrial one, and that argument is the whole premise the brand was built on. Where an industrial or service robot exists to perform one narrow function, in a warehouse or on a factory floor, PrimeBOT positions its machines as something closer to a companion, small enough to fit in a backpack, built to sit in a study or a living room rather than a production line.

That distinction shows up directly in how the robots look. Rather than chase the humanoid realism much of the robotics industry has pursued for years, PrimeBOT deliberately avoids synthetic faces or skin textures altogether. Q1 and T1 are both built around simple, closed geometric forms that keep their mechanical structure out of view, finished in materials chosen to feel warm rather than clinical, with movement designed to stay fluid and understated rather than showy. The brand sums up the philosophy in a single line used across both models: built for people, unlike people.

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