Meka Robotics
Meka Robotics was an MIT CSAIL spin-off founded by Aaron Edsinger and Jeff Weber that built compliant research robots using series elastic actuators. Its products included the M1 mobile manipulator and the S2 humanoid head, and it co-built Simon, Dreamer and HUME with university partners before Google bought it in December 2013.
- Robot models in the atlas
- 11 humanoid
- First robot
- 2011One year so far
- Headquarters
- San FranciscoUnited States
- Is it still sold?No longer soldEvery robot is retired or discontinued
- What is new?2013-12Google buys Meka in robotics spree
Robots
1 robot model shown in public in 2011. Newest first. Open one for its full profile.
Humanoids 1 humanoid
What is inside
Chips and parts suppliers named for Meka Robotics's robots by the maker or reputable press.
What is new
The latest stories about Meka Robotics's robots, newest first.
- Google buys Meka in robotics spree IEEE Spectrum · M1 Mobile Manipulator
- Meka launches the M1 mobile manipulator IEEE Spectrum · M1 Mobile Manipulator
The company
What it says about itself and what the sources record.
- Founded
- 2006
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Focus
- compliant, torque-controlled research humanoids, arms, hands and heads
- Funding
- funding not disclosed; acquired by Google (Google X) in December 2013, later part of Alphabet's X
- Partners
- Georgia Tech (Simon; first arms used by its Healthcare Robotics Lab), MIT Media Lab (Nexi forearm and hand), UT Austin (Dreamer, HUME), Willow Garage and SRI (Redwood Robotics venture)
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