MenteeBot
MenteeBot is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot developed by Mentee Robotics, an Israeli startup founded in 2022 by AI pioneers including Amnon Shashua and Professor Shai Shalev-Shwartz, headquartered in Herzliya, Israel. Standing 175 cm tall and weighing 70 kg, it features 40 degrees of freedom, a 25 kg payload capacity, hot-swappable batteries providing 3-4+ hours of runtime, and dual NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX processors. It targets industrial automation tasks including assembly, packaging, and logistics.
Primary use case: Manufacturing
Height
175 cm
Weight
70 kg
DOF
40
Payload
25 kg
Battery
4 hrs
Specifications
Physical
Height
175 cm
Weight
70 kg
Degrees of Freedom
40
Locomotion
Bipedal
Max Speed
4.5 km/h
Manipulation
Hand Type
5-Finger Dexterous
Payload
25 kg
Max Lift/Arm
12.5 kg
Power & Autonomy
Battery Life
4 hrs
Autonomy Level
Semi-Autonomous
Commercial
Availability
In Development
Primary Use Case
Manufacturing
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