Silicon Valley’s latest humanoid is exceptionally strong and it’s already doing real factory work.
That’s according to Noble Machines, a Sunnyvale-based startup launched in 2024 by former engineers from Apple, SpaceX, NASA, and Caltech. The startup says it’s already shipped its first general purpose robot workers to an unnamed Fortune Global 500 customer.
The headless humanoid robot named Moby can reportedly learn new industrial tasks in just a few hours by watching demonstrations or through natural language instructions.
Standing 170 cm (5 feet 7 inches), it boasts a reported 34 degrees of freedom (DoF). The robot can lift and carry up to 27 kg (60 lbs), which makes it one of today’s strongest robots on two legs.
Despite its strength, Noble Machines, formerly known as Under Control Robotics (UCR), says its humanoid consumes an average of just 200 watts per hour, which is about the same amount of energy required for a household television. It can operate for five to six hours per shift, powered by a single NVIDIA Jetson Orin edge computer. Noble has not yet publicly disclosed pricing.