Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: Poland
• Founded: 2021
• Website: https://www.clonerobotics.com

Profile sections

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

Summary

Clone Robotics develops biomimetic humanoid robots built around synthetic muscles and anatomically inspired hardware. Its Clone Humanoid combines a humanlike torso, hands and actuation system for research into dexterous manipulation and human-scale robotics.

Market context

Represents a distinct technical direction in humanoid robotics, exploring muscle-based actuation as an alternative to electric motor-driven systems used by most platforms. Proprietary humanoid robotic platforms using artificial muscle systems.

• Capability: Development of musculoskeletal humanoid architectures Integration of artificial muscles and tendon-based actuation Exploration of human-like motion and structure
• Strategic position: Alternative humanoid design approach focused on biological replication Early-stage platform development with non-traditional actuation systems

Products

• Clone Humanoid

Facts

• Website: https://www.clonerobotics.com
• HQ: Wrocław, Poland
• Founded: 2021
• Segment: Humanoid

Musculoskeletal androids built around artificial muscle actuation

Clone Robotics develops musculoskeletal android systems that use artificial muscle technology rather than conventional rigid robotic actuation. Its public work includes Clone Hand, Clone Android and Protoclone, with emphasis on anatomical structure, fluidic muscles and humanlike movement.

• Target environment: Humanoid robotics labs, dexterous manipulation research, home-assistance concepts, demonstration environments and embodied AI development settings.
• Deployment model: Humanoid platform model built around artificial muscle actuation, musculoskeletal hardware, research releases, reservations and staged android development.
• Customer context: Robotics developers, researchers, early adopters, humanoid ecosystem partners and customers interested in humanlike dexterity or android embodiment.
• Workflow context: Artificial muscles, musculoskeletal actuation, dexterous hands, android hardware, humanlike movement, manipulation and embodiment research.
• Commercial maturity: Clone Robotics has distinctive musculoskeletal android hardware and strong public visibility. Scaling depends on manufacturability, control reliability, safety, cost and useful task capability beyon…
• Market position: Humanoid robotics builder positioned around musculoskeletal android design and artificial muscle actuation.
• Adoption constraints: Reliability, manufacturability, safety, control complexity, useful task capability, cost, maintenance and transition from demonstrations to durable robots.
• Adjacent context: Humanoid robotics, androids, dexterous hands, artificial muscles, musculoskeletal robots and embodied AI hardware.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2025-11-23 - Capability - Clone Robotics shows Neural Joint Controller V2 for biomimetic robotic hand control - Clone Robotics showed Neural Joint Controller V2 for its biomimetic robotic hand
• 2025-11-15 - Demonstration - Clone Robotics demonstrates teleoperated robotic hand with neural joint controller - • Clone Robotics released a video showcasing their robotic hand being teleoperated by a human wearing a s…
• 2025-11-15 - Demonstration - Clone Robotics Demonstrates Advanced Robotic Hand with Neural Controller - The robotic hand features 27 degrees of freedom, human-level grip strength and speed, and durable artificial muscle…
• 2025-11-15 - Demonstration - Clone Robotics Demonstrates Advanced Human-Level Robotic Hand - Showcased a robotic hand with 27 degrees of freedom, human-level grip strength, and speed.
• 2025-02-19 - Demonstration - Clone Robotics unveils Protoclone, the world's first bipedal musculoskeletal android - Protoclone features over 1,000 artificial muscles and 500 sensors, enabling lifelike movements.

Team

• Dhanush Radhakrishnan - Chief Executive Officer - Leads Clone Robotics' musculoskeletal android and artificial muscle robotics direction.
• Łukasz Koźlik - Co-founder

Articles

• 2025-01-25 - Clone Robotics reveals Protoclone, a musculoskeletal humanoid powered by artificial muscles - The New York-based startup is the only humanoid company building with synthetic muscles rather than electric mot…