Facts

• Company: Ati Motors
• Product type: Mobile Manipulator
• Status: pre_commercial
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://atimotors.com/sherpa-mecha/

Profile sections

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

Summary

Sherpa Mecha is Ati Motors humanoid-inspired mobile robot for manufacturing floors. It combines a wheeled base, manipulation hardware and 3D navigation for machine tending, bin handling, inspection and other practical factory tasks.

Overview

Sherpa Mecha is Ati Motors humanoid-inspired mobile robot for manufacturing floors. It combines a wheeled base, manipulation hardware and 3D navigation for machine tending, bin handling, inspection and other practical factory tasks.

Market context

Sherpa Mecha is Ati Motors' dual-arm wheeled mobile manipulator for industrial automation workflows.

• Target environment: Manufacturing floors, machine-tending cells, bin-handling stations and industrial work areas.
• Workflow context: Bin handling, machine tending, fastening, tool changeouts, mobile manipulation and structured task automation.
• Customer context: Manufacturers and automation teams needing mobile manipulation without bipedal locomotion.
• Deployment model: Industrial mobile manipulator platform.
• Commercial maturity: Emerging industrial product surface.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on task reliability, arm payload, safety, integration and service support.
• Market position: Practical industrial mobile manipulator built around work-cell utility and wheeled mobility.
• Adjacent products: PR-OMNI, Reflex, Casbot W1, DexLeap Mobile Manipulator

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Bin handling, machine tending, fastening, tool changeouts, mobile manipulation and structured task automation.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Manufacturing floors, machine-tending cells, bin-handling stations and industrial work areas.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Bin handling, machine tending, fastening, tool changeouts, mobile manipulation and structured task automation.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Manufacturing floors, machine-tending cells, bin-handling stations and industrial work areas.

Specifications

• Payload Kg At Full Extension: 11.8 kg
• Payload Kg At 900mm: 12 kg
• Navigation Summary: 3D navigation
• Actuator Summary: high-performance actuators
• Gripper Summary: precision gripping
• Supported Tasks: bin handling, machine tending, fastening, tool changeouts
• Collaboration Model: available to research partners for custom tooling and software
• Arm Material: carbon fibre arms
• Multi Height Operation: works at multiple heights

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial manipulation system
• Workflow: Warehouse material handling, Box handling
• Capability: Autonomous navigation, Force control
• Deployment Environment: Warehouse environment, Industrial facility
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Record / Articles

• 2025-10-07 - Article - Ati Motors moves Sherpa Mecha from factory AMRs into mobile manipulation

Timeline / Research

• 2025-09-29 - Product Launch - Ati Motors launches Sherpa Mecha for industrial automation - Sherpa Mecha was introduced as a humanoid-inspired robot focused on practical manufacturing applications rather than full human…
• 2025-07-23 - Demonstration - Ati Motors showcases new Sherpa robots and mission-scale milestone at Product Day 2025 - Product Day 2025 featured Sherpa 10K, Sherpa Mecha, Sherpa Lifter 500, Sherpa Pallet Mover 1.5T, and…

Comparable Systems

• JAKA K-1 - JAKA Robotics Co., Ltd. - Mobile Manipulator
• Pixmo - Anyware Robotics - Mobile Manipulator
• Tiankui 1 - Tetrabot - Mobile Manipulator
• PR-OMNI - Perceptyne - Mobile Manipulator
• Alex - Boardwalk Robotics - Mobile Manipulator
• Walker C - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Gino 1 - Geek+ - Mobile Manipulator
• Rocky - SuperDroid Robots - Mobile Manipulator