Facts

• Company: NAVER LABS Corp.
• Product type: Mobile Manipulator
• Status: available
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://www.naverlabs.com/en/ambidex

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Ambidex is NAVER LABS lightweight dual-arm robot for dexterous manipulation research. Its cable-driven arms are designed for safe, force-sensitive interaction, letting the robot handle delicate objects and study human-like manipulation in service and research settings.

Overview

Ambidex is NAVER LABS lightweight dual-arm robot for dexterous manipulation research. Its cable-driven arms are designed for safe, force-sensitive interaction, letting the robot handle delicate objects and study human-like manipulation in service and research settings.

Market context

Ambidex is NAVER LABS' lightweight cable-driven dual-arm robot designed for safe, human-like manipulation and haptic control in research environments.

• Target environment: Research labs, robotics development facilities and human-robot interaction research spaces.
• Workflow context: Dual-arm manipulation, haptic interaction, teleoperation and embodied AI research using cable-driven actuation for safe physical interaction.
• Customer context: Robotics researchers, manipulation labs and AI teams studying safe physical human-robot interaction.
• Deployment model: Research platform available through NAVER LABS product channels.
• Commercial maturity: Active research platform with strong academic and industry research adoption.
• Adoption constraints: Cable-driven design prioritizes safety and compliance over payload and speed. Best suited to research rather than production environments.
• Market position: A manipulation-first research platform focused on safe physical interaction. Sits in the mobile manipulation research space alongside other dual-arm platforms.
• Adjacent products: Astribot S1, AgiBot G2, cable-driven manipulation platforms

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Dual-arm manipulation, haptic interaction, teleoperation and embodied AI research using cable-driven actuation for safe physical interaction.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Research labs, robotics development facilities and human-robot interaction research spaces.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Dual-arm manipulation, haptic interaction, teleoperation and embodied AI research using cable-driven actuation for safe physical interaction.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Research labs, robotics development facilities and human-robot interaction research spaces.

Specifications

• Height Mm: 1860 mm
• Arm Weight Kg: 2.6 kg per arm
• Dof Per Arm: 7
• Payload Per Arm: 3 kg max
• Max Speed: 5 m/s (safe human interaction)
• Battery Life: 480 minutes (8 hours)
• Configuration: dual-arm humanoid robot with sensor head, torso, waist (evolved from arm-only version unveiled 2017)
• Actuation: innovative cable-driven mechanisms mimicking human muscle function providing lightweight, flexible, fast arm movements with high precision and safe force control
• Gripper: BLT Gripper capable of changing to various grasping methods
• Sensors: force and position sensors integrated with cable-driven mechanisms, haptic sensors for tactile feedback, vision sensors for task environment perception, sensor head for object perception
• Compute: onboard processors supporting real-time control, haptic feedback processing, AI-based learning and adaptation
• Software: real-time motion planning and control algorithms, AI learning modules for task adaptation, remote operation software supporting 5G connectivity, physical intelligence learning (closed source)
• Physical Intelligence: ability to learn humans' physical intelligence (motor/physical capabilities performed naturally by humans but difficult to verbalize/digitalize), concept by Professor Sangbae Kim (MIT Biomimetic R…
• Safety: innovative force transfer mechanism satisfying both robustness and safety, safe for human interaction at speeds up to 5 m/s
• Tasks: dicing vegetables, assembling furniture, playing table tennis, food preparation, laundry, serving, nursing, rehabilitation, household chores, precise manipulation and assembly tasks, complex dual-arm coordination

Tags

• Peer Group: Mobile manipulation robot
• Workflow: Robot learning data
• Capability: Mobile manipulation, Force control
• Deployment Environment: Research lab
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Research platform

Comparable Systems

• Astribot S1 - Astribot - Mobile Manipulator
• Quanta X2 - X Square Robot - Mobile Manipulator