{"id":"duatic-alpha","manufacturer":"Duatic","model":"Duatic Alpha","country":"CH","description":"Duatic Alpha is a half-humanoid from Swiss company Duatic in Zurich: a two-armed upper body with vision mounted on a wheeled mobile base. It handles lifting and carrying in intralogistics, industry and research. Duatic now markets the system as DXTR.","catalog_status":"in-development","specifications":{"height_cm":175,"weight_kg":65,"payload_kg":20,"dof":28,"speed_ms":2,"battery_h":12},"capabilities":["sort","obstacle","recover"],"source":{"url":"https://www.duatic.com","verified_at":null,"verified_fields":[],"review_status":"requires_current_source_check"},"evidence":{"manufacturer_review":null,"mera_field_test":{"status":"not_published","report_url":null,"measured_at":null},"verification_note":"A manufacturer documentation check does not verify field performance, inventory or MERA compatibility."},"knowledge":{"summary":"Duatic Alpha is a half-humanoid from Swiss company Duatic in Zurich: a two-armed upper body with vision mounted on a wheeled mobile base. It handles lifting and carrying in intralogistics, industry and research. Duatic now markets the system as DXTR.","sections":[{"h":"History and launch","p":["Duatic was founded in Zurich in 2024 as a spin-off of ETH Zurich research. Its DynaDrive actuators and DynaArm had already been used on the ANYmal quadruped, the ANYexo exoskeleton and Festo's BionicMobileAssistant.","Alpha was the first complete robot. A video on Duatic's site shows it detecting, approaching and grasping a 20 kg bag on its own. The current product page (whose title still reads Alpha Half-Humanoid Robot) calls it DXTR."]},{"h":"Design and hardware","p":["It combines two quasi-direct-drive DynaArms, additional high-torque actuators and a wheeled base rather than legs. The DXTR spec sheet lists 12 kg continuous payload, 30 kg for 10 seconds with both arms, 0.99 m reach per arm, 2 m/s platform speed and 200 kg carried on the base. It is IP66 rated, runs on 48 V and uses hot-swappable batteries.","A Hannover Messe 2026 flyer gives different numbers for Alpha: 60 kg lift, 200 kg carry, 1.5 m/s and 12 hours of autonomy. The DynaArm alone weighs 9 kg, carries 6 kg and repeats to under 1 mm."]},{"h":"Software and AI","p":["The robot uses ROS 2 and the arm software is open source. Arms accept torque, velocity, position or hybrid commands and, being backdrivable with impedance control, can sense contact. Duatic cites real-time AI decision-making and a vision system for object detection."]},{"h":"Use cases","p":["Duatic targets warehouses: lifting totes, cartons and sacks on existing floor layouts without changing racking or adding safety cages. Its modules (DynaArm, DuaTorso upper body, DuaRover base) are also sold separately."]},{"h":"Company","p":["Duatic AG is based at Affolternstrasse 42 in Zurich. It is a Swiss company, not Chinese as some catalogs list."]},{"h":"Price and availability","p":["No public price list; sales go through Duatic's contact form."]}],"timeline":[["2024","Duatic founded in Zurich"],["2026-04","Alpha featured on Duatic's Hannover Messe 2026 flyer"]],"faq":[["Does Duatic Alpha walk?","No. It is a half-humanoid: a two-armed torso on a wheeled base."],["How much can Duatic Alpha lift?","12 kg continuously and up to 30 kg briefly per the DXTR spec sheet; the trade-show flyer quotes 60 kg lift and 200 kg carry."],["Where is Duatic from?","Switzerland. It was founded in Zurich in 2024 from ETH Zurich research."],["What software does it run?","ROS 2 with an open-source DynaArm software stack."]],"sources":[{"title":"Duatic home page","publisher":"Duatic AG","url":"https://www.duatic.com","date":"2026-10"},{"title":"DXTR (Alpha Half-Humanoid Robot) product page","publisher":"Duatic AG","url":"https://www.duatic.com/dxtr","date":"2026-10"},{"title":"About us","publisher":"Duatic AG","url":"https://www.duatic.com/about-us","date":"2026-10"},{"title":"Duatic Flyer 2026","publisher":"Duatic AG / Hannover Messe","url":"https://www.hannovermesse.de/apollo/hannover_messe_2026/obs/Binary/A1508335/Duatic%20Flyer%202026%20(1)-compressed.pdf","date":"2026-04"}],"updated":"2026-10-10"},"mera":{"rental_with_operator":false,"sale_in_offer":false,"availability":"confirmation_required","shop_url":null},"url":"https://merarobotics.com/blog/humanoids/duatic-alpha","inquiry_url":"https://merarobotics.com/en/start?service=purchase&robot=duatic-alpha"}