Facts

• Company: ORBIT Robotics
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: prototype
• Capability focus: Space Manipulation
• Website: https://www.orbitrobotics.ch/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Sources

Summary

HELIOS is ORBIT Robotics four-armed humanoid robot concept for space-station operations. Instead of legs, it uses coordinated arms to move through microgravity interiors, hold position and assist with cargo, inventory and routine station-maintenance tasks.

Overview

HELIOS is ORBIT Robotics four-armed humanoid robot concept for space-station operations. Instead of legs, it uses coordinated arms to move through microgravity interiors, hold position and assist with cargo, inventory and routine station-maintenance tasks.

Market context

HELIOS is ORBIT Robotics' four-armed, four-handed space humanoid prototype. The system comes out of an ETH Focus Project focused on humanoid robotic platforms for orbital operations.

• Target environment: Orbital-operations research, low- and zero-gravity manipulation studies, laboratory prototype testing, and space robotics development programs.
• Workflow context: Dexterous multi-arm manipulation, supervised or teleoperated task work, grasping research, and whole-body control for space robotics scenarios.
• Customer context: Space robotics labs, ETH project collaborators, orbital infrastructure researchers, and teams tracking humanoid manipulation beyond terrestrial industrial settings.
• Deployment model: Research prototype. ORBIT has revealed HELIOS publicly, but has not announced a commercial deployment model.
• Commercial maturity: Early prototype from an ETH Focus Project, with public evidence limited to the official site and reveal materials.
• Adoption constraints: HELIOS still needs deeper technical disclosure, sustained test evidence, and a credible path from lab prototype to space-qualified hardware.
• Market position: A distinctive early space-humanoid project, differentiated by a four-arm architecture rather than a conventional terrestrial biped design.
• Adjacent products: Space robotics research platforms, orbital manipulation concepts, and dexterous humanoid systems.

Audience

Space

Workflow

Dexterous multi-arm manipulation, supervised or teleoperated task work, grasping research, and whole-body control for space robotics scenarios.

Capability

space manipulation

Deployment environment

Orbital-operations research, low- and zero-gravity manipulation studies, laboratory prototype testing, and space robotics development programs.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Space
• Workflow: Dexterous multi-arm manipulation, supervised or teleoperated task work, grasping research, and whole-body control for space robotics scenarios.
• Capability: space manipulation
• Deployment environment: Orbital-operations research, low- and zero-gravity manipulation studies, laboratory prototype testing, and space robotics development programs.

Specifications

• Core Functions: four-arm manipulation; dexterous hands; space robotics research; humanoid prototyping
• Operating Environment: space_robotics_research; low_gravity; zero_gravity; laboratory_prototype
• Mobility Class: humanoid; multi_arm
• Commercial Status: prototype

Articles

• 2026-05-20 - Article - ORBIT reveals HELIOS, a four-arm humanoid for space robotics

Timeline / Research

• 2026-05-20 - Product Launch - Orbit Robotics reveals HELIOS four-armed space humanoid prototype - Orbit Robotics revealed HELIOS through the @orbitrobotics channel.