Carbon
Physical AI for industrial automation. Sanctuary AI develops Physical AI technology to help industrial leaders automate complex tasks by deploying production-ready AI performance across existing and future robotic hardware.
Primary use case: Industrial automation and complex task automation
Height
170 cm
Weight
70 kg
Payload
25 kg
Specifications
Physical
Height
170 cm
Weight
70 kg
Locomotion
bipedal
Balance
N/A
Manipulation
Hand Type
hydraulic
Payload
25 kg
Power & Autonomy
Autonomy Level
Fully Autonomous
AI & Compute
AI Capabilities
dexterous manipulation, autonomous task policies, reinforcement learning, sim-to-real transfer, tactile sensing
Onboard Compute
not publicly disclosed; proprietary onboard compute running Carbon AI software
Commercial
Availability
Pre-Order
Primary Use Case
Industrial automation and complex task automation
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Sanctuary AI demonstrated that its Carbon AI control system achieved a 99.5% success rate on a factory wire-plugging task running on a rival's robotic arm, proving its AI brain can work independently of its Phoenix humanoid body. The company is now pivoting to license Carbon as a software layer for existing industrial robots rather than competing on hardware against better-funded rivals like Figure AI and Tesla.
Carbon Robotics partners with iMerit to power instant in-field AI customization
Carbon Robotics has partnered with iMerit to power its new large plant model, which replaces traditional crop-specific AI vision models with a foundation model trained on 150 million labeled plants, enabling farmers to instantly customize their LaserWeeder's targeting via an iPad app without retraining. The company also announced Carbon ATK, an autonomy kit that retrofits John Deere tractors (2019+) to enable fully autonomous farming operations including weeding, tillage, spraying, and harvesting.
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