Moby
Newton is a bipedal general-purpose humanoid robot developed by Noble Machines (formerly Under Control Robotics), a company founded in 2024 by engineers from SpaceX, Apple, NASA, and Caltech. Designed for hazardous and physically-demanding industrial environments, Newton features AI-driven whole-body control and modular end-effectors. It can carry up to 23 kg, operates for 5 hours on a single charge, and navigates stairs, scaffolding, and unstable terrain. It is available as a platform (hardware + software toolkits) or as a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) pilot for industries such as construction, manufacturing, energy, and logistics.
Primary use case: Supporting people in hazardous and physically-demanding industrial work including inspections, data capture, material handling, and sorting across construction, manufacturing, semiconductor, energy, mining, and logistics industries.
Height
170 cm
DOF
34
Payload
27 kg
Specifications
Physical
Height
170 cm
Degrees of Freedom
34
Locomotion
Bipedal
Max Speed
2.88 km/h
Balance
dynamic
Manipulation
Hand Type
unknown
Payload
27 kg
Power & Autonomy
Autonomy Level
semi_autonomous
AI & Compute
AI Capabilities
whole-body AI control, end-to-end autonomy, multi-modal learning (language, demonstration, gesture), reinforcement learning via NVIDIA Isaac
Onboard Compute
NVIDIA Jetson Orin (edge AI computing stack)
Commercial
Availability
In Development
Primary Use Case
Supporting people in hazardous and physically-demanding industrial work including inspections, data capture, material handling, and sorting across construction, manufacturing, semiconductor, energy, mining, and logistics industries.
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