Phoenix
General-purpose humanoid robot designed for work
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Phoenix is Sanctuary AI's general-purpose humanoid robot, built to perform a wide range of work tasks using human-like hands and dexterous manipulation. It is paired with the company's Carbon AI control system, which is designed to mimic cognitive subsystems found in the human brain such as memory, sight, sound, and touch. The robot emphasizes sensor-rich design and fine manipulation aimed at general-purpose labor.
Released: 2023
- Price
- Contact for pricing
- Height
- 1.7 m Manufacturer
- Weight
- 70 kg Manufacturer
- Payload
- 25 kg Manufacturer
- Degrees of freedom
- 20+ Manufacturer
- Battery
- Not disclosed
Canonical robot record
Verified facts for Phoenix
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- Spec sources
- 2 linked
- Verification
- Verified Jul 6, 2026 · every displayed spec is source-checked
- Availability
- Piloting
- Last verified
- Jul 6, 2026
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Overview
Phoenix is a general-purpose humanoid robot from Sanctuary AI, a robotics and physical-AI company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The robot is designed to take on a broad range of work tasks by combining a human-scale body with dexterous hands intended to rival human hand dexterity and fine manipulation, supported by proprietary haptic technology meant to mimic the sense of touch.
Phoenix is controlled by Sanctuary AI's Carbon system, an AI control software designed to mimic subsystems found in the human brain such as memory, sight, sound, and touch. Sanctuary frames Carbon as providing reasoning, task, and motion planning that is intended to be explainable and auditable, allowing the robot to reason about and then act on work tasks.
The platform has progressed through multiple hardware generations. Sanctuary's most recent official positioning describes its newest generation as optimized for high-quality, high-fidelity data capture to train its AI control system, indicating the robot is primarily in a development and data-collection phase rather than broad commercial shipping.
Key Features
- Dexterous robotic hands designed to approach human-level dexterity and fine manipulation
- Proprietary haptic technology intended to mimic the human sense of touch
- Carbon AI control system designed to mirror human cognitive subsystems and provide explainable, auditable reasoning and motion planning
- Sensor-rich humanoid design aimed at general-purpose work tasks
- Iterative hardware generations focused on improved sensing, telemetry, and high-fidelity training-data capture
Specifications
Mechanics
| Degrees of Freedom | 20+ |
| Locomotion | Wheeled base (Gen 8); bipedal through Gen 7 |
Performance
| Max Speed | 4.8 km/h |
| Payload Capacity | 25 kg |
Physical
| Weight | 70 kg |
| Height | 1.7 m |
Compare with similar robots
| Phoenix | Unitree H2 | TORA-ONE | THEMIS V2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | On request | On request | On request | On request |
| Height | 1.7 m | 180 cm | 146-186 cm (foldable/adjustable) | 1.6 m |
| Weight | 70 kg | 70 kg | — | 37.5 kg |
| Payload | 25 kg | 15 kg peak / 7 kg rated (single arm) | 5 kg per arm (rated) | 15 kg |
| Reach | — | — | — | — |
| Max speed | 4.8 km/h | — | 0.6 m/s | 2.78 m/s |
| Degrees of freedom | 20+ | 31 | 47 | 40 |
| Battery | — | ≈3 h runtime (972 Wh, 15 Ah, max 75.6 V) | 8 hours | 3 hours |
Evidence & changelog
Sources
- Sanctuary AI - tranche-2 verification · Sanctuary AI — cites Height, Payload Capacity, Degrees of Freedom, Weight, Max Speed
- Sanctuary AI - tranche-2 verification · Sanctuary AI — cites Locomotion
Record changelog
- Locomotion: Bipedal → Wheeled base (Gen 8); bipedal through Gen 7 · Jul 6, 2026
tranche-2 verification (corrected): Gen 8 replaced bipedal legs with wheeled base
Videos
Deployment Evidence
Sanctuary AI — Official Website
Sanctuary AI's Phoenix humanoid robot is in pilot deployment phase; features Carbon AI general-purpose cognitive system and 20-DOF hands with claimed <24hr task learning.
Deployment Readiness
Integration & SDK
- ROS Support
- Supported
- SDK Available
- Not confirmed
- API Docs
- —
- Supported Platforms
- ROS (internal), Carbon AI (proprietary)
Support & Service
Regions
—Support details not available
Manufacturer
Developer of Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot with human-like intelligence for diverse work environments.
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, Canada
- Founded
- 2018
- Website
- Official site
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