Welder
The Persona AI Welder is an industrial humanoid robot variant by Persona AI (Houston, TX) designed to perform welding in difficult environments like shipbuilding. Founded by ex-NASA Valkyrie lead Nic Radford and ex-Figure CTO Jerry Pratt. Has HD Hyundai partnership for shipyard deployment with commercial field testing targeted for 2027. Operates via teleoperation initially to collect real-world welding data for AI training.
Primary use case: Welding in difficult and confined environments including shipbuilding and steel fabrication
Specifications
Physical
Locomotion
Bipedal
Manipulation
Hand Type
unknown
Power & Autonomy
Autonomy Level
unknown
AI & Compute
AI Capabilities
manipulation
Commercial
Availability
pre_commercial
Primary Use Case
Welding in difficult and confined environments including shipbuilding and steel fabrication
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