Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2024
• Website: https://www.undercontrol.ai

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Supply chain
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Customers and deployments
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Noble Machines develops general-purpose humanoid robots for industrial work. Its systems are aimed at hazardous, repetitive and physically demanding tasks where human workers need robotic support in sectors such as manufacturing, logistics, maintenance and field operations.

Market context

General-purpose humanoid platform for industrial and hazardous environments with robust mobility, whole-body AI control, and practical payload capacity; targets construction, mining, energy, manufacturing, and logistics. Noble Machines builds proprietary humanoid robots intended for industrial usage, focusing on mobility, manipulation, and autonomous or tele-operable operation in hazardous and complex environments.

• Capability: Full-body AI control for navigation and mobility across industrial terrain
• Capability: Teleoperated and autonomous task execution capabilities
• Capability: Payload handling up to ~27 kg / 50 lb
• Capability: Designed for integration into existing industrial workflows (construction, mining, energy, logistics, semiconductor sites) with modular tooling and effectors
• Strategic position: Noble Machines occupies the robotics builder layer with a general-purpose humanoid platform aimed at heavy industries where au…

Products

• Moby

Facts

• Website: https://www.undercontrol.ai
• HQ: Sunnyvale, United States
• Founded: 2024
• Segment: Humanoid

Supply chain

Moby industrial humanoid (site).

• Layer: oem_builders
• Role types: Robot OEM
• Robotics categories: humanoid, industrial
• Profile confidence: high

Industrial humanoid robot company

Noble Machines develops Moby, a humanoid robot for hazardous, repetitive and physically demanding work in industrial environments.

• Target environment: Industrial sites, hazardous workplaces, factories, logistics environments and human-scale operational areas.
• Deployment model: Industrial humanoid product development for enterprise and field deployment.
• Customer context: Industrial operators, manufacturers, logistics teams and organizations seeking robotic support for high-risk work.
• Workflow context: Hazardous task support, repetitive work automation, mobile manipulation, remote operation and human-scale industrial assistance.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage humanoid company with Moby positioned for rugged industrial use. Scaling depends on mobility reliability, payload handling, safety, customer pilots, and task value in hazardous or diffic…
• Market position: Industrial humanoid developer focused on worksite utility rather than consumer social robotics.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on manipulation reliability, locomotion or mobility, safety, service support, customer proof and production readiness.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes industrial humanoids, hazardous-work robots, mobile manipulators and enterprise physical AI systems.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-03-04 - Product Launch - Noble Machines exits stealth with Moby humanoid robot - Noble Machines exited stealth with Moby, a humanoid robot designed for general-purpose physical work.
• 2026-03-03 - Market Signal - Noble Machines ships and deploys first humanoid robots to a Fortune Global 500 industrial customer - Noble Machines said it shipped and deployed its first humanoid robots to a Fortune Global…
• 2026-02-27 - Org Change - Under Control Robotics begins operating under the name Noble Machines - Company referenced in industry posts as Noble Machines, continuing development of rugged humanoid robots for industrial u…
• 2025-03-18 - Demonstration - UCR demonstrates Moby's payload mobility and industrial terrain handling - Substack post details Moby's development where robot carried a 27 kg payload and navigated outdoor terrain.
• 2025-03-13 - Demonstration - Moby humanoid robot achieves first integrated mobility proofs in lab testing - Under Control Robotics' Moby robot successfully walked over uneven surfaces and inclines in lab testing.

Operations / Deployments

• 2026-03-03 - Market Signal - Noble Machines ships and deploys first humanoid robots to a Fortune Global 500 industrial customer - Noble Machines said it shipped and deployed its first humanoid robots to a Fortune Global…

Team

• Wei Ding - Co-Founder and CEO
• Wen-Loong Ma - Co-founder & CTO
• Christopher McQuin - Co-founder
• Wenda Wang - Co-founder

Customers and deployments

• Named Commercial Humanoid Site - 1 unnamed Fortune Global 500 customer deployment - 2026-03-03 - Fortune Global 500 industrial customer - industrial operations - Noble Machines said it shipped and deployed its first ind…

Record / Articles

• 2026-03-03 - Noble Machines emerges from stealth with Moby, its industrial humanoid already deployed at a Fortune Global 500 customer - The Sunnyvale startup, formerly Under Control Robotics, shipped its first robots wi…