Phoenix
General-purpose humanoid robot designed for work
Price
Price not publicly disclosed
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Key facts
Values reflect the public record
- Height
- 1.7 m
- Weight
- 70 kg
- Payload
- 25 kg
- Degrees of freedom
- 20+
- Runtime
- No public data documented
- Max speed
- 4.8 km/h
Canonical robot record
Overview
Phoenix is a general-purpose humanoid robot from Sanctuary AI, a robotics and physical-AI company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The robot is designed to take on a broad range of work tasks by combining a human-scale body with dexterous hands intended to rival human hand dexterity and fine manipulation, supported by proprietary haptic technology meant to mimic the sense of touch.
Phoenix is controlled by Sanctuary AI's Carbon system, an AI control software designed to mimic subsystems found in the human brain such as memory, sight, sound, and touch. Sanctuary frames Carbon as providing reasoning, task, and motion planning that is intended to be explainable and auditable, allowing the robot to reason about and then act on work tasks.
The platform has progressed through multiple hardware generations. Sanctuary's most recent official positioning describes its newest generation as optimized for high-quality, high-fidelity data capture to train its AI control system, indicating the robot is primarily in a development and data-collection phase rather than broad commercial shipping.
RoboZaps maintains this record as part of its canonical robotics database. Specs are source-verified where linked; the record compares public facts across manufacturers rather than representing a single robot maker.
- Spec sources
- 0 linked
- Verification
- Unverified
- Deployment
- Piloting
- Last verified
- Jun 29, 2026
Key Features
- Dexterous robotic hands designed to approach human-level dexterity and fine manipulation
- Proprietary haptic technology intended to mimic the human sense of touch
- Carbon AI control system designed to mirror human cognitive subsystems and provide explainable, auditable reasoning and motion planning
- Sensor-rich humanoid design aimed at general-purpose work tasks
- Iterative hardware generations focused on improved sensing, telemetry, and high-fidelity training-data capture
Reviews & analysis from the RoboZaps blog
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- Tesla Optimus vs Sanctuary AI Phoenix: Full 2026 Comparison (opens in a new tab)
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix 2026: Price, Is It For Sale & What It Is (opens in a new tab)
Specifications
Grouped technical data with source detail available on demand.
6 documented values
Mechanics
| Degrees of Freedom | 20+ Unverified |
|---|---|
| Locomotion | Bipedal Unverified |
Performance
| Max Speed | 4.8 km/h Unverified |
|---|---|
| Payload Capacity | 25 kg Unverified |
Physical
| Height | 1.7 m Unverified |
|---|---|
| Weight | 70 kg Unverified |
Deployment and commercial evidence
Deployment evidence
Sanctuary AI — Official Website
Sanctuary AI's Phoenix humanoid robot is in pilot deployment phase; features Carbon AI general-purpose cognitive system and 20-DOF hands with claimed <24hr task learning.
Integration & SDK
- ROS support
- Supported
- SDK available
- Not confirmed
- API docs
- —
- Supported platforms
- ROS (internal), Carbon AI (proprietary)
Support & service
Regions
—Support details not available
Media
Manufacturer
Developer of Phoenix, a general-purpose humanoid robot with human-like intelligence for diverse work environments.
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, Canada
- Founded
- 2018
