NPO Android Technics (JSC SPA Android Technics) · research humanoid
AR-600
A full-size walking humanoid that can speak and handle objects, aimed at industrial and entertainment uses.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 148 cmTaller than 34%
- Weight
- 56 kgHeavier than 42%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Described as one of the first full-size humanoid robots designed in Russia.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- First shown
- 2012
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
NPO Android Technics (JSC SPA Android Technics)Company · founded 2009 · Magnitogorsk, Russia51% acquired in July 2025 by JSC Robot Corporation, part of Element Group (price not disclosed)
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
AR-600 is taller than 34% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
AR-600 is heavier than 42% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
AR-600 has more joints than 62% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: speed, payload, battery, price.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current humanoids.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 36 joints
- Actuators & motors
- 35 DC servomotors; 36 DoF (head 3, arms 5 each, hands 5 each, body 1, legs 6 each).
- Hands
- 5 DoF per hand; tactile sensors listed.
- Sensors & vision
- Two cameras, gyroscope, accelerometer, joint angle sensors, tactile sensors.
- Battery & power
- 48 V lithium-iron-phosphate battery.
- Materials & build
- Plastic outer skin over a frame of light metal and plastic.
- AI & software
- AR-SOFT, the maker's own software; face and object recognition.
- Other details
- Can speak and handle household objects and tools. Lineage: AR-400 (2006 start), AR-400M (2007), AR-600 (unveiled 2008).
Lineage
Every Android Technics (NPO Androidnaya Tekhnika) humanoid in order.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- not known to be sold
- Where it is sold or used
- Android Technics, Magnitogorsk and Moscow, Russia
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | AR-600Android Technics (NPO Androidnaya Tekhnika) |  All-new ASIMOHondaSame job: entertainment · Both walk · Both past robots · Similar size |  MyonNeurorobotics Research Laboratory (Manfred Hild), Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, later Beuth University of Applied SciencesSame job: entertainment · Both walk · Both past robots · Similar size |  BrunoTU Darmstadt (Darmstadt Dribblers) and Hajime Research InstituteSame job: entertainment · Both walk · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2012 | 2011-11-08 | 2010-06 | 2010 |
| Status | Retired | Retired | Retired | Retired |
| Height | 148 cm | 130 cm | 125 cm | — |
| Weight | 56 kg | 48 kg | 16 kg | — |
| Joints | 36 | 57 | 32 | — |
| Speed | — | 9 km/h | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | 0.7 h | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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