Calvin-40 product profile
Calvin-40 is Wandercraft self-balancing exoskeleton for rehabilitation and personal mobility, supporting gait therapy in clinical settings.
Facts
- Company: Wandercraft
- Product type: Humanoid
- Status: launched
- Capability focus: Manipulation
- Website: https://en.wandercraft.eu/calvin-40
Profile sections
- Summary
- Overview
- Market context
- Audience
- Workflow
- Capability
- Deployment environment
- Positioning tags
- Specifications
- Tags
- Record / Articles
- Timeline / Research
- Comparable Systems
- Sources
Summary
Calvin-40 is Wandercraft self-balancing exoskeleton for rehabilitation and personal mobility, supporting gait therapy in clinical settings.
Overview
Calvin-40 is Wandercraft self-balancing exoskeleton for rehabilitation and personal mobility, supporting gait therapy in clinical settings.
Market context
Calvin-40 is Wandercraft industrial humanoid adapted from self-balancing exoskeleton technology for carrying and handling work on factory floors.
- Target environment: Factory floors and industrial workplaces.
- Workflow context: Heavy carrying, material handling and physical work on factory floors using a self-balancing humanoid platform.
- Customer context: Industrial manufacturers deploying humanoid platforms for physical material handling.
- Deployment model: Commercial industrial humanoid from a company with exoskeleton balance-control heritage.
- Commercial maturity: Actively positioned industrial humanoid with real balance-control heritage and automotive deployment pathway through Renault.
- Adoption constraints: Humanoid deployment in factories is still early. Balance-control heritage provides a differentiation advantage.
- Market position: Benefits from real balance-control heritage and a direct automotive route through Renault.
- Adjacent products: Apollo, Digit, industrial humanoids
Workflow
Heavy carrying, material handling and physical work on factory floors using a self-balancing humanoid platform.
Deployment environment
Factory floors and industrial workplaces.
Positioning tags
- Audience: Healthcare
- Workflow: Heavy carrying, material handling and physical work on factory floors using a self-balancing humanoid platform.
- Capability: manipulation
- Deployment environment: Factory floors and industrial workplaces.
Specifications
- Modularity: Modular design customizable for various use cases
- Operational Environment: Factory floor
- Deployment Maturity: Launch in collaboration with Groupe Renault
- Payload Capacity Kg: 40 kg
- Force Torque Sensing: Feet with force sensors
- Vision System: Day/night camera manipulation, navigation, and obstacle avoidance
- Status Display: LED light strips communicate status to nearby operators
Tags
- Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform
- Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
- Capability: Whole-body control
- Deployment Environment: Factory floor
- Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
- Commercial Stage: Commercial product
Record / Articles
- 2026-03-12 - Article - Renault prepares Calvin humanoids for factory work with Wandercraft
Timeline / Research
- 2026-03-12 - Deployment - Renault Group deploys 350 Wandercraft Calvin-40 humanoid robots - • Renault Group deployed 350 Wandercraft Calvin-40 humanoid robots in its factories over an 18-month period.
- 2025-06-11 - Funding - Wandercraft secures €64.3 million in Series D funding - • Wandercraft secured €64.3 million in a Series D funding round on June 11, 2025.
Comparable Systems
- PUDU D9 - Pudu Robotics - Anthropomorphic Biped
- IRON - XPeng Inc. - Humanoid
- Kepler K2 - Kepler Robotics - Humanoid
- Apollo - Apptronik - Humanoid
- Atlas - Boston Dynamics - Humanoid
- Walker X - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
- Phoenix - Sanctuary AI - Humanoid
- T800 - ENGINEAI - Humanoid
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