Facts

• Company: WorkFar
• Product type: Semi Humanoid
• Status: development
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://www.workfar.com/product/syntro/

Profile sections

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

Summary

Syntro is WorkFar humanoid robot for industrial and hazardous-environment work. It combines 45 degrees of freedom, telepresence and autonomous task capability for inspection, handling and support roles where human-like mobility and reach are useful.

Overview

Syntro is WorkFar humanoid robot for industrial and hazardous-environment work. It combines 45 degrees of freedom, telepresence and autonomous task capability for inspection, handling and support roles where human-like mobility and reach are useful.

Market context

Semi-humanoid industrial robot from WorkFar, using a practical wheeled form and task-focused design to reduce deployment difficulty compared with full bipedal humanoids.

• Target environment: Research labs, industrial pilots, service demonstrations and structured environments where humanoid hardware can be tested or deployed.
• Workflow context: Locomotion, manipulation, human-robot interaction, embodied AI testing and task execution in controlled settings.
• Customer context: Robot developers, research teams, industrial partners and service operators evaluating humanoid systems.
• Deployment model: Prototype or development-stage product with public positioning and limited deployment proof.
• Commercial maturity: Publicly visible but still early, with maturity tied to demos, pilots and later customer evidence.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on safety, useful task coverage, manipulation reliability, operating time, support and proof outside demonstrations.
• Market position: WorkFar positions Syntro in the humanoid lane, where body format, autonomy and task evidence determine differentiation.
• Adjacent products: Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Unitree G1, Agility Digit

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Locomotion, manipulation, human-robot interaction, embodied AI testing and task execution in controlled settings.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Research labs, industrial pilots, service demonstrations and structured environments where humanoid hardware can be tested or deployed.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Locomotion, manipulation, human-robot interaction, embodied AI testing and task execution in controlled settings.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Research labs, industrial pilots, service demonstrations and structured environments where humanoid hardware can be tested or deployed.

Specifications

• Width: 25 in / 0.64 m
• Dof: 45
• Mobility: 3 all-directional omni wheels
• Manipulation: Anthropomorphic arms and dexterous hands
• Actuation: Maxon motors and harmonic drives
• Sensors Summary: 2D LiDAR, cameras, computer vision and microphones
• Compute Model: Intel multicore i5, custom Linux running ROS2
• Communication: WiFi 6 and 5G LTE
• Battery: 1.2 kWh
• Charging: 6 to 10 h
• Runtime Hours: 6 to 10 h h
• Height Cm: 170 cm cm
• Weight Kg: 108 kg kg
• Materials: Aluminum, stainless steel, carbon steel, brass, acetal and carbon-fiber filament
• Country Of Origin: Made in the USA
• Payload Capacity Kg: 20 kg

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
• Capability: Mobile manipulation
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Articles

• 2024-08-09 - Article - WorkFar is turning teleoperated humanoid handling into an industrial service layer

Timeline / Research

• 2026-01-18 - Product Launch - WorkFar publishes Syntro product packages and technical specifications - WorkFar product page lists Syntro with Base, Telepresence and Intelligent package options.
• 2024-11-27 - Production Milestone - WorkFar says Syntro entered in-house mass production without venture capital backing - WorkFar said it was leveraging its U.S.-based manufacturing facility and decades of industrial p…
• 2024-08-22 - Partnership - WorkFar and IIT outline collaboration around iCub Avatar architecture for wheeled humanoid control - The collaboration aimed to adapt the iCub Avatar architecture for a commercial human-contro…
• 2024-08-08 - Product Launch - WorkFar publicly unveils Syntro humanoid robot for teleoperated industrial work - WorkFar described Syntro as a humanoid-style robot controlled by a remote human operator with real-time sen…

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Production Milestone - 1 source-backed production milestone - 2024-11-27 - WorkFar says Syntro entered in-house mass production without venture capital backing

Comparable Systems

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• Walker S1 - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Walker S - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• PUDU D9 - Pudu Robotics - Anthropomorphic Biped
• IRON - XPeng Inc. - Humanoid
• Calvin-40 - Wandercraft - Humanoid
• Kepler K2 - Kepler Robotics - Humanoid
• Atlas - Boston Dynamics - Humanoid