Sanctuary AI unveils Phoenix and Carbon
Sanctuary AI unveiled its sixth-generation Phoenix humanoid and the Carbon AI control system on 16 May 2023.

Evidence notes
- Phoenix was introduced as a 170 cm, 70.3 kg humanoid with a 25 kg maximum payload and 20 hand degrees of freedom.
- Carbon was described as the control architecture translating natural-language instructions into robot actions.
- The announcement established Phoenix as the named humanoid platform after Sanctuary AI's earlier commercial deployment of fifth-generation technology.
Company context
Vancouver physical-AI company deploying autonomous task policies on industrial robot arms and custom end effectors while developing dexterous hands and future humanoid embodiments.