Company profile
UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant)
UMA is a Paris robotics company developing general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots for logistics and manufacturing. Founded by alumni of Tesla, Google D...
Facts
- Segment
- HUMANOID
- Country
- FR
- Headquarters
- Paris
- Founded
- 2025
- Categories
- Manufacturer, Humanoids
- Focus
- General Purpose, Research
- Website
- https://uma.bot/
About UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant)
UMA develops mobile and humanoid robots intended to combine human-scale manipulation with physical-world perception and task learning. Its engineering covers robot hardware, dexterous control and embodied models, with the platform designed to acquire new work rather than remain limited to one fixed logistics or manufacturing process.
The company is preparing pilot programmes in logistics and manufacturing during 2026. Its founding team includes former Tesla, Google DeepMind and Hugging Face engineers with backgrounds in robot learning, autonomous systems and open-source AI. UMA is still at the prototype and customer-development stage, before serial commercial deployment of a named production robot.
Market context
DEVELOPMENT
Summary
Type: General robots
Core: Northstar
Function: Mobile manipulation
Audience: Industrial teams
Products
- Northstar — humanoid