Facts

• Company: Telexistence Inc.
• Product type: Mobile Manipulator
• Status: prototype
• Website: https://tx-inc.com/en

Profile sections

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

Summary

Model-T is Telexistence semi-autonomous remote-operation robot for retail shelf-stocking. It uses telepresence control, AI assistance and a mobile manipulation body to let workers replenish bottles and other goods in convenience-store environments.

Overview

Model-T is Telexistence semi-autonomous remote-operation robot for retail shelf-stocking. It uses telepresence control, AI assistance and a mobile manipulation body to let workers replenish bottles and other goods in convenience-store environments.

Market context

Model-T is Telexistence's discontinued semi-autonomous retail robot for in-store shelf restocking.

• Target environment: Convenience stores, compact retail layouts and controlled in-store pilot environments.
• Workflow context: Shelf restocking, remote operation, semi-autonomous item handling and retail labor support.
• Customer context: Retailers, convenience-store operators and automation partners evaluating remote robotic labor for store operations.
• Deployment model: Historical prototype and pilot product that preceded Telexistence's later retail automation systems.
• Commercial maturity: Discontinued product with public pilot history and customer trials in Japan.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption was constrained by in-store integration, remote-operation economics, manipulation speed, reliability and retail workflow fit.
• Market position: Important early retail teleoperation robot that shaped Telexistence's later move toward fixed and newer store automation systems.
• Adjacent products: TX SCARA, TX Ghost, FamilyMart robots, Aitrios shelf analytics systems

Audience

Retail

Workflow

Shelf restocking, remote operation, semi-autonomous item handling and retail labor support.

Capability

Remote operation

Deployment environment

Convenience stores, compact retail layouts and controlled in-store pilot environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Retail
• Workflow: Shelf restocking, remote operation, semi-autonomous item handling and retail labor support.
• Capability: Remote operation
• Deployment environment: Convenience stores, compact retail layouts and controlled in-store pilot environments.

Specifications

• Total Dof: 22
• End Effector Type: Andrea-Yamaura end effector; vacuum suction and two-finger gripper
• Control: Semi-autonomous remote control; ~50 ms end-to-end video latency (TX stated)
• Status: Discontinued (per Telexistence about page)

Tags

• Peer Group: Mobile manipulation robot
• Workflow: Human-robot interaction
• Capability: Remote operation
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2025-06-25 - Partnership - Telexistence Partners with Physical Intelligence for Retail Automation - • Telexistence Inc. and Physical Intelligence announced a partnership to develop advanced automation technologies for r…