Facts

• Company: Persona AI
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: prototype
• Website: https://www.persona-ai.com

Profile sections

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

Summary

Persona is Persona AI industrial humanoid platform for heavy-duty work sites. It is being developed for tasks such as welding, inspection and construction support in shipyards, energy facilities and other demanding environments built around human labor.

Overview

Persona is Persona AI industrial humanoid platform for heavy-duty work sites. It is being developed for tasks such as welding, inspection and construction support in shipyards, energy facilities and other demanding environments built around human labor.

Market context

Persona is an industrial humanoid platform for energy and heavy-industry task execution, with AI-first positioning and limited standardized public spec disclosures.

• Target environment: Energy sites, heavy-industry environments, industrial facilities and structured work areas with difficult physical tasks.
• Workflow context: Humanoid task execution, AI-assisted operation, industrial inspection support and heavy-industry labor automation.
• Customer context: Energy operators, industrial companies and partners evaluating humanoids for demanding work environments.
• Deployment model: Prototype humanoid platform from Persona AI.
• Commercial maturity: Prototype-stage product with public positioning and limited standardized specifications.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on safety, ruggedness, task reliability, autonomy, support, operating cost and customer pilots.
• Market position: Industrial humanoid lane focused on energy and heavy industry rather than consumer or social robotics.
• Adjacent products: Foundation Phantom, Apptronik Apollo, Figure 03, Sanctuary Phoenix

Audience

Industrial operators

Workflow

Humanoid task execution, AI-assisted operation, industrial inspection support and heavy-industry labor automation.

Capability

Humanoid

Deployment environment

Energy sites, heavy-industry environments, industrial facilities and structured work areas with difficult physical tasks.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Industrial operators
• Workflow: Humanoid task execution, AI-assisted operation, industrial inspection support and heavy-industry labor automation.
• Capability: Humanoid
• Deployment environment: Energy sites, heavy-industry environments, industrial facilities and structured work areas with difficult physical tasks.

Specifications

• Commercial Status: Pre-production units expected to begin initial deliveries at end of 2026
• Deployment Environment: Shipyards, energy sites, construction, manufacturing, and complex heavy-industry environments
• Manipulation: Commercializing NASA robotic hand IP for heavy-industry dexterity
• Platform Design: Modular hardware base adaptable into specialized work personas

Tags

• Peer Group: Developer humanoid platform
• Deployment Environment: Research lab
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Developer platform, Commercial product

Record / Articles

• 2025-05-14 - Article - Persona AI raises $27M for humanoid shipyard robots

Timeline / Research

• 2026-05-11 - Partnership - Persona AI announces R&D collaboration with Under Armour for humanoid robot performance materials - Persona AI announced a research and development collaboration with Under Armour to evaluate…
• 2025-12-31 - Product Launch - Persona AI's Gen-1 humanoid robot unveiled - • Persona AI unveiled its Gen-1 humanoid robot, designed for welding tasks in shipyards.
• 2025-11-13 - Award - Persona AI Named Finalist for Startup of the Year at 2025 Houston Innovation Awards - • Persona AI was named a finalist for Startup of the Year at the 2025 Houston Innovation Awards.
• 2025-05-14 - Funding - Persona AI secures $27M pre-seed for humanoid robot development - Persona AI raised $27M in pre-seed funding to advance humanoid robot development for industrial applications.
• 2025-05-07 - Partnership - Persona AI partners with HD Hyundai to deploy humanoid welders - HD Hyundai and Persona AI signed an MOU to develop humanoid welders for shipyard applications by 2026.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Named Customer Program - 1 named shipyard program - 2025-05-07 - HD Hyundai - shipyard welding automation - HD KSOE and HD Hyundai Robotics signed an MOU with Persona AI and Vazil for shipyard welding humanoids, targeti…