Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: Singapore
• Website: https://menlo.ai/products/asimov

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Customers and deployments
• Articles
• Sources

Summary

Asimov is Menlo Research open-source humanoid robot project. The system is presented as a buildable humanoid with published design files and a DIY kit, giving developers and hobbyists a lower-cost hardware surface for humanoid robotics experimentation and community-led iteration.

Market context

Open-source humanoid reference platform and robot training data infrastructure at the intersection of bipedal hardware and large-scale motion data. Asimov sits at the intersection of humanoid robotics hardware and robot training-data infrastructure, with work tied to bipedal robot reference systems, autonomy software and motion data for embodied AI.

Products

• Asimov v1

Facts

• Website: https://menlo.ai/products/asimov
• HQ: Singapore, Singapore
• Segment: Humanoid

Open humanoid and robot-data infrastructure

Asimov is a Singapore-based robotics project and company surface focused on open humanoid robotics and robot training-data infrastructure.

• Target environment: Humanoid research, robot autonomy development and embodied-AI data workflows.
• Deployment model: Early-stage open hardware/software and data-infrastructure model for robot builders and researchers.
• Customer context: Robotics developers and embodied-AI teams that need reference systems, autonomy software or motion data for physical-world learning.
• Workflow context: Workflows center on building and training robot behavior using bipedal hardware references, autonomy tooling and robot-motion datasets.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage project/company surface with limited corporate detail but clear robotics/data positioning.
• Market position: Sits between humanoid hardware and data infrastructure rather than acting as a mature robot OEM.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on technical openness, sustained maintenance, dataset quality, hardware maturity and developer community trust.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent systems include open humanoid platforms, robot data marketplaces, teleoperation datasets and embodied-AI developer tools.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-04-27 - Research Publication - Asimov open-sources v1 humanoid robot hardware and software - Asimov released v1 as an open-source humanoid robot containing mechanical CAD, electrical CAD, simulation model, and onbo…
• 2026-04-27 - Product Launch - Asimov open-sources Asimov v1 humanoid robot platform with full mechanical design and BOM - Asimov announced Asimov v1, a 1.2 m, 35 kg humanoid robot with 25 actuated degrees of freedom.
• 2026-03-31 - Product Launch - Asimov open-sources Asimov v1 full-body humanoid build manual - Asimov’s GitHub organization lists Asimov v1 as a full-body humanoid build manual open-sourced on March 31, 2026.
• 2026-03-04 - Product Launch - Asimov opens pre-orders for DIY humanoid robot kit - Asimov launched pre-orders for its DIY humanoid robot kit, allowing builders to assemble a full 1.20 m, 35 kg, 25+2 DoF robot themselves.
• 2026-03-01 - Market Signal - Asimov DIY Kit draws 14 pre-orders within hours of opening - Asimov said the DIY Kit received 14 orders within a few hours of opening pre-orders.
• 2026-01-01 - Product Launch - Asimov open-sources Asimov v0 bipedal humanoid legs - Asimov released v0 as an open-source bipedal leg platform for humanoid robot development.

Team

• Anshul Verma - Founder
• Lyem Ningthou - Founder

Customers and deployments

• Kit Availability - $499 deposit / $15,000 target price - 2026-04-27 - developer DIY humanoid kit - Asimov v1 is available for reservation as an unassembled DIY humanoid kit with a $499 deposit, a $15,000 target price an…

Articles

• 2026-04-27 - Open hardware is reaching humanoids - A full hardware design, BOM, and simulation environment are now public, with a kit targeted at $15,000. - Korthos: /research/open-hardware-is-reaching-humanoids