{"id":"roboligent-robin","manufacturer":"Roboligent","model":"Robin","country":"US","description":"Robin is a two-armed mobile robot from Roboligent, based near Austin, Texas, built to work beside people without fencing. It relies on in-house mechanically compliant, force-controlled actuators and is offered on a subscription basis, mainly for logistics and manufacturing.","catalog_status":"in-development","specifications":{"height_cm":null,"weight_kg":null,"payload_kg":null,"dof":null,"speed_ms":null,"battery_h":null},"capabilities":["sort","thread"],"source":{"url":"https://www.roboligent.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":"Robin is a two-armed mobile robot from Roboligent, based near Austin, Texas, built to work beside people without fencing. It relies on in-house mechanically compliant, force-controlled actuators and is offered on a subscription basis, mainly for logistics and manufacturing.","sections":[{"h":"Design and technology","p":["Robin has two 7-DoF arms on an omnidirectional base with a motorized lifting column that lets it work from floor level to 2 m. Payload is 7 kg per arm or 14 kg with both, and each arm reaches 1,000 mm. It weighs 105 kg on a 680 x 600 mm footprint. Speed is software-limited to 0.6 m/s (1.2 m/s hardware), and runtime is 6-12 hours depending on battery.","The default end effector is a parallel gripper with 120 mm stroke, with a five-finger hand optional. The actuators are compliant by construction rather than by software and are covered by four US patents. In Roboligent's own comparative tests Robin produces roughly a tenth of the impact force of a rigid industrial arm on human contact, and end-effector force sensitivity is below 0.1 N. Safety certification is underway."]},{"h":"Software and AI","p":["Roboligent trains its own model for contact-rich manipulation that learns from force readings at every joint as well as vision. Operators teach new tasks in VR, and the company says about a hundred demonstrations suffice. Learned skills run inside deterministic behavior trees, and the whole stack runs onboard with no cloud in the control loop."]},{"h":"Applications and deployments","p":["Logistics is the main application: tote handling, mixed-SKU picking and station-to-station transport. Roboligent also lists automotive part sequencing and assembly, and precision tasks in electronics. Robin is provided as a subscription (pilot, deploy, expand) rather than sold. No deployment counts or customer names are given."]},{"h":"Manufacturer","p":["Roboligent was founded in 2016 in Austin out of University of Texas at Austin research, and assembles Robin in Round Rock. It has received a 1.2 million dollar NSF SBIR award and a 1.8 million dollar AFWERX STTR Phase II contract from the US Air Force for applying the technology to rehabilitation."]},{"h":"Price and availability","p":["Robin is not sold outright; a subscription covers hardware, maintenance, software and support. Pricing is not published."]}],"timeline":[["2016","Roboligent founded in Austin"]],"faq":[["Is Roboligent Robin a humanoid?","It is a two-armed wheeled robot with a lifting column, resembling a human upper body but without legs."],["How much can Robin carry?","7 kg with one arm, 14 kg with both."],["How do you buy Robin?","You don't buy it; it is provided under a subscription that includes service and support."],["Can Robin work next to people?","That is its design goal, using compliant actuators and force control; safety certification is in progress."]],"sources":[{"title":"Roboligent: Robots that work where people work","publisher":"Roboligent","url":"https://roboligent.com/","date":"2026"},{"title":"Robin specs","publisher":"Roboligent","url":"https://roboligent.com/robin/","date":"2026"}],"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/roboligent-robin","inquiry_url":"https://merarobotics.com/en/start?service=purchase&robot=roboligent-robin"}