Deep Robotics' new Lynx S10 is 40% lighter than the M20 — and still has no price
Deep Robotics has a new wheel-legged quadruped, and for now the only way to get one is to ask. The Lynx S10 cuts weight to about 19 kg — roughly 40% under the existing Lynx M20’s 33 kg — while keeping the M20’s party trick: legs that fold into wheels for fast, efficient rolling on flat ground and switch back to walking for stairs and rubble. Deep Robotics rates it for 5 m/s on wheels, an 8 kg payload, IP66 sealing, a -20°C to 55°C operating range, and about three hours of runtime across 16 km on a charge.
The distribution story is as notable as the hardware. On July 30, ELSA Japan announced it had secured exclusive Japanese sales rights for the S10, and pre-orders opened August 3 through ELSA’s site — with deliveries promised from November 2026. Outside Japan, Deep Robotics hasn’t listed the S10 on its own site with a price; both the manufacturer and ELSA quote it strictly by inquiry.
That’s a meaningfully different sales motion from the M20, which already circulates through US distributors at list prices around $60,000 for the standard wheel-legged configuration and roughly $61,200 for the Pro variant with dual LiDAR. A lighter, cheaper-to-build S10 built for “single-operator deployment” reads like a machine aimed at a lower price point than the M20 — but until a real quote surfaces, that’s a guess, not a number. We’ve added the S10 to the index at not-for-sale pricing and will update it the moment a distributor publishes a figure.
The pattern is familiar from this category: hardware ships to reviewers and demo floors well before anyone outside a home market can just add one to a cart. Deep Robotics’ own Lynx M20 took a similar path — CES award, distributor listings, US pricing — over the better part of a year. Whether the S10 compresses that timeline, especially with a live Japanese order channel already running, is the thing worth watching next.
Sources
Primary sources referenced in this article. Prices in the tables come from the live index and carry their own as-of dates.
- DEEP Robotics: Lynx S10 — official product page (deeprobotics.cn)
- Deep Robotics: Lynx M20 — official product page (deeprobotics.cn)