The Vega 1 Pro is a Mobile Manipulator humanoid robot developed by Dexmate. It features 218.44 cm tall, 24 degrees of freedom, 5 kg payload capacity. The Vega 1 Pro is unknown.
Primary use case: Mobile bimanual physical AI development, robot learning, data collection, and manipulation.
Height
218.44 cm
DOF
24
Payload
5 kg
Battery
20 hrs
Height
218.44 cm
Degrees of Freedom
24
Locomotion
unknown
Hand Type
gripper
Payload
5 kg
Max Lift/Arm
5 kg
Battery Life
20 hrs
Autonomy Level
teleop
AI Capabilities
vision, manipulation, navigation, learning
Availability
unknown
Primary Use Case
Mobile bimanual physical AI development, robot learning, data collection, and manipulation.
Feather Robotics raised $7.6 million in pre-seed funding led by Gradient, with participation from Builder Capital, Geometry, Seed Innovations and Virgo VC. The California-based company, founded by former Google and Tesla employees Hoa Mai and Parsa Bakhtiari, is developing a modular wheeled bimanual humanoid robot priced at $29,990 targeting third-party developers building physical AI applications. Feather has reportedly generated over $1 million in revenue from customers in manufacturing and food service sectors.
NEC Orchestrating Future Fund has invested in U.S.-based Dexmate, a startup founded in 2024 by researchers in AI robotics that offers the VEGA humanoid robot combined with a Physical AI development platform. The investment aims to lower barriers to robot development and deployment by enabling anyone to easily design, configure, and operate AI-powered robots in real-world environments. The two companies will explore collaboration opportunities aimed at accelerating the real-world implementation of Physical AI across a wide range of industries.
NEC's corporate venture capital fund has made a strategic investment in US-based robotics startup Dexmate, which is developing the VEGA humanoid robot and an integrated physical AI development platform. Neither company disclosed the value of the investment. The partnership aims to deploy physical AI technologies across a range of industries by combining Dexmate's technology with NEC's AI capabilities and industry experience.