Facts

• Company: Noble Machines
• Product type: Humanoid Platform
• Status: development
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://www.undercontrol.ai

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Moby is Noble Machines humanoid robot for industrial support work. It is designed for hazardous, physically demanding and repetitive tasks where a general-purpose mobile manipulator can reduce worker exposure while operating in human-built environments.

Overview

Moby is Noble Machines humanoid robot for industrial support work. It is designed for hazardous, physically demanding and repetitive tasks where a general-purpose mobile manipulator can reduce worker exposure while operating in human-built environments.

Market context

Moby is Noble Machines' general-purpose humanoid platform for industrial and hazardous environments.

• Target environment: Industrial sites, hazardous environments, structured work areas and future field-deployment settings.
• Workflow context: Humanoid navigation, manipulation, AI-assisted operation, human-environment interaction and remote or supervised work.
• Customer context: Industrial operators, hazardous-work teams and partners evaluating humanoid platforms for difficult physical tasks.
• Deployment model: Development-stage humanoid platform from Noble Machines, formerly Under Control Robotics.
• Commercial maturity: Development-stage product with public company positioning and limited deployment evidence.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on mobility, manipulation, safety, autonomy, ruggedness, service support and clearly defined customer tasks.
• Market position: Industrial-hazard humanoid lane focused on difficult work environments rather than consumer assistance or entertainment.
• Adjacent products: Apptronik Apollo, Figure 03, Sanctuary Phoenix, Agility Digit

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Humanoid navigation, manipulation, AI-assisted operation, human-environment interaction and remote or supervised work.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Industrial sites, hazardous environments, structured work areas and future field-deployment settings.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Humanoid navigation, manipulation, AI-assisted operation, human-environment interaction and remote or supervised work.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Industrial sites, hazardous environments, structured work areas and future field-deployment settings.

Specifications

• End Effector Type: Modular end-effectors
• Walking Speed Mps: 0.8 m/s
• Runtime Hours: 5 h
• Learning: Learns new skills through experience, demonstration, and feedback
• Operation Modes: Remote and autonomous operation
• Operational Environment: Hazardous, high-heat, toxic, outdoor, and industrial environments
• Payload Capacity Kg: 23 kg

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform, Humanoid robot platform
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Record / Articles

• 2026-03-03 - Article - Noble Machines emerges from stealth with Moby, its industrial humanoid already deployed at a Fortune Global 500 customer

Timeline / Research

• 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.
• 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 Claims / 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…

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• DR02 - Deep Robotics - Humanoid
• Vanar Generation-1 - Vanar Robots - Humanoid