{"id":"robo-robo-t1","manufacturer":"Robo Robotics","model":"ROBO-T1","country":"US","description":"ROBO-T1 (Robo-T) is a stationary dual-arm humanoid from US company Robo Robotics. It learns a task from a human demonstration, and the learned skill can be pushed to every identical unit. Robo does not sell it outright: customers \"hire\" the robot at an hourly rate.","catalog_status":"shipping","specifications":{"height_cm":null,"weight_kg":null,"payload_kg":null,"dof":12,"speed_ms":null,"battery_h":null},"capabilities":["sort","assemble"],"source":{"url":"https://robo.inc/","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":"ROBO-T1 (Robo-T) is a stationary dual-arm humanoid from US company Robo Robotics. It learns a task from a human demonstration, and the learned skill can be pushed to every identical unit. Robo does not sell it outright: customers \"hire\" the robot at an hourly rate.","sections":[{"h":"Design and hardware","p":["ROBO-T1 has two 6-DoF arms with grippers and takes up roughly the footprint of one worker at a station. The hardware is standardized so every unit behaves the same and a policy trained once runs across the fleet. Robo has not published height, weight or payload."]},{"h":"Software and AI","p":["Tasks are taught by demonstration: the customer's team shows the workflow and Robo sets it up as a reusable skill in Roboport, its fleet dashboard for telemetry, batch updates and policy deployment. An automation platform fine-tunes models on data recorded during work sessions, so every shift becomes training data.","Remote operators supervise every deployment. When the model hits an edge case, such as a jammed bin, an operator sees what the robot sees and guides it through, and the intervention is fed back into training."]},{"h":"Applications and deployments","p":["Robo lists picking and packing, folding, CNC machine tending, small-part assembly and soldering, quality inspection, palletizing and lab automation. It says first deployments are running in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare and food production, including packaging lines, machine shops and hospitals, without naming customers."]},{"h":"Manufacturer","p":["Robo Robotics operates at robo.inc. In August 2026 it published an essay, \"Robotics' Model T moment\", arguing that robots will spread only once they become cheap and useful enough, as cars did with the Ford Model T, and describing three months of work on such a robot. The company has not publicly named its founders or disclosed funding amounts."]},{"h":"Price and availability","p":["The robot is not sold. Robo delivers and installs it at an existing station and runs the task, and the customer pays an hourly rate that depends on the job. It can work around the clock, including nights and weekends. Requests are reviewed first come, first served, with priority for the highest-impact tasks."]}],"timeline":[["2026-08","Robo Robotics introduces Robo-T and publishes \"Robotics' Model T moment\""]],"faq":[["Does ROBO-T1 walk?","No. It is a stationary two-armed robot that works at an existing station."],["How much does ROBO-T1 cost?","It is not sold; customers pay an hourly rate for the work, set per task."],["How does ROBO-T1 learn tasks?","From human demonstrations; a skill saved in Roboport can be deployed to any identical unit."],["What happens when the robot gets stuck?","A remote operator takes over and guides it, and the intervention is used for further training."]],"sources":[{"title":"ROBO: Teach Once. Deploy Everywhere.","publisher":"Robo Robotics","url":"https://robo.inc/","date":"2026"},{"title":"Robotics' Model T moment","publisher":"Robo Robotics","url":"https://robo.inc/blog/robotics-model-t-moment","date":"2026-08-21"}],"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/robo-robo-t1","inquiry_url":"https://merarobotics.com/en/start?service=purchase&robot=robo-robo-t1"}