Phoenix product profile
Phoenix is Sanctuary AI general-purpose humanoid robot for industrial and service work. It combines dexterous hands, human-scale arms and the Carbon AI control system for tasks that require manipulation, reasoning and operation in human-designed workplaces.
Facts
- Company: Sanctuary AI
- Product type: Humanoid
- Status: prototype
- Website: https://www.sanctuary.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
Phoenix is Sanctuary AI general-purpose humanoid robot for industrial and service work. It combines dexterous hands, human-scale arms and the Carbon AI control system for tasks that require manipulation, reasoning and operation in human-designed workplaces.
Overview
Phoenix is Sanctuary AI general-purpose humanoid robot for industrial and service work. It combines dexterous hands, human-scale arms and the Carbon AI control system for tasks that require manipulation, reasoning and operation in human-designed workplaces.
Market context
General-purpose humanoid platform designed for task execution in human environments.
- Target environment: Industrial, logistics, commercial and service workplaces with human-designed tools and workflows.
- Workflow context: Dexterous manipulation, teleoperation, task learning, object handling and general-purpose labour automation.
- Deployment model: Humanoid robot platform developed for customer pilots, task training and workplace automation.
- Commercial maturity: Public humanoid platform with customer pilot activity and continuing hardware development.
- Adoption constraints: Requires task training, safety validation, manipulation reliability, customer-site integration and operational support.
- Market position: Manipulation-led humanoid system focused on work tasks that require hands, perception and human-like reach.
- Adjacent products: Humanoid robot for dexterous workplace tasks, teleoperation and general-purpose labour development.
Workflow
Dexterous manipulation, teleoperation, task learning, object handling and general-purpose labour automation.
Capability
Whole-body control
Deployment environment
Industrial, logistics, commercial and service workplaces with human-designed tools and workflows.
Positioning tags
- Audience: Factories
- Workflow: Dexterous manipulation, teleoperation, task learning, object handling and general-purpose labour automation.
- Capability: Whole-body control
- Deployment environment: Industrial, logistics, commercial and service workplaces with human-designed tools and workflows.
Specifications
- Speed: 3 mph
- Hand Dof: 20 DoF
- Manipulation: Robotic hands with 20 total degrees of freedom and proprietary haptic technology
- Tactile Sensing: Proprietary haptic technology that mimics the sense of touch
- Height Cm: 170 cm
- Interaction Model: Natural-language-driven task execution through Carbon AI
- Deployment Maturity: Announced after Sanctuary AI first commercial deployment of its technology
- Weight Kg: 70.31 kg
- Payload Capacity Kg: 24.95 kg
Tags
- Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform
- Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks, Dexterous grasping
- Capability: Whole-body control
- Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
- Commercial Stage: Commercial product
Record / Articles
- 2026-05-26 - Article - Sanctuary AI Is Building Around The Humanoid Hand
Timeline / Research
- 2025-04-01 - Demonstration - Sanctuary AI Demonstrates Phoenix Robot at Hannover Messe 2025 - Sanctuary AI showcased its general-purpose robot, Phoenix, at Hannover Messe 2025.
- 2025-02-26 - Product Launch - Sanctuary AI Integrates Tactile Sensors into Phoenix Robots - Sanctuary AI announced the integration of new tactile sensor technology into its Phoenix general-purpose robots.
- 2024-12-19 - Product Launch - Sanctuary AI unveils new tactile sensors to improve dexterous manipulation - Sanctuary AI unveiled a new generation of tactile sensor technology optimized to improve dexterous manipulation.
- 2024-12-16 - Product Launch - Sanctuary AI releases Phoenix Generation 8 robots for high-quality data capture - Sanctuary AI released Phoenix Generation 8 robots to improve data-capture quality for robot training pipeli…
- 2024-04-25 - Product Launch - Sanctuary AI unveils the next generation of AI robotics - Sanctuary AI unveiled the next generation of its AI robotics platform, including Generation 7 of Phoenix, framed as a broad step fo…
- 2024-04-11 - Partnership - Sanctuary AI expands general purpose robot footprint in automotive manufacturing industry with Magna - Sanctuary AI announced a strategic partnership with Magna to expand the use of its genera…
- 2023-10-24 - Award - Sanctuary AI's Phoenix Recognized as TIME 2023 Best Invention - • Sanctuary AI's humanoid general-purpose robot, Phoenix, was named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2023.
Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
- Named Pilot Site - 1 named pilot site - 2024-04-11 - Magna - automotive manufacturing - TechCrunch reported Sanctuary AI announced it would deliver its Phoenix humanoid robot to a Magna manufacturing facility; the numbe…
- Named Commercial Site - Commercial deployment with Canadian Tire and Mark's - 2023-03-01 - Canadian Tire and Mark's - retail work tasks - Sanctuary AI deployed humanoid general-purpose robot technology commercially with…
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