Product profile
Model-T
Model-T is Telexistence’s discontinued 22-DoF remote-operation robot for convenience-store shelf replenishment. Introduced in 2020, it combined a mobile ma...
Facts
- Company
- Telexistence Inc.
- Product type
- semi_humanoid
- Status
- discontinued
- Website
- https://tx-inc.com/en
About Model-T
Model-T was a 22-degree-of-freedom remote-manipulation robot developed for convenience-store restocking. Its mobile body and specialised suction-and-gripper hand allowed an operator to handle bottles and other products inside existing store layouts without rebuilding the shelving or stockroom.
A VR cockpit transmitted camera imagery with end-to-end latency targeted around 50 milliseconds and mapped the operator’s movement onto the robot. FamilyMart and Lawson trials tested remote shelf replenishment and the wider augmented-workforce model in 2020. Telexistence subsequently discontinued Model-T and transferred its retail automation work into TX SCARA and later generations using greater autonomous control.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Retail robot
Core: Shelf stocking
Function: Restocking
Audience: Merchants
Specifications
- control
- Semi-autonomous remote control; ~50 ms end-to-end video latency (TX stated)
- end_effector_type
- Andrea-Yamaura end effector; vacuum suction and two-finger gripper
- status
- Discontinued (per Telexistence about page)
- total_dof
- 22
Operations
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Telexistence deploys TX Ghost robots in Tokyo 7-Eleven stores — 2025-10-30
- Telexistence receives Prime Minister’s Award at Japan Startup Awards 2025 — 2025-08-26
- Telexistence Partners with Physical Intelligence for Retail Automation — 2025-06-25
- SoftBank backs Japanese robotics startup Telexistence in $170M funding round — 2023-07-06
- Telexistence deploys AI-powered TX SCARA restocking robots across FamilyMart stores in Japan — 2022-08-10
- Telexistence closes $20M Series A2 tranche, taking total Series A financing above $40M — 2021-06-15