Borg Robotics · industrial humanoid
Borg 01
A modular industrial humanoid from a Detroit startup that can switch between walking on two legs and rolling on a wheeled base, with swappable end effectors.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 173 cmTaller than 70%
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- 12 hRuns longer than 97%
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Why it matters
A prototype humanoid from Borg Robotics.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
Borg RoboticsCompany · founded 2022 · Detroit, Michigan, United StatesHow it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Borg 01 is taller than 70% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Borg 01 runs longer than 97% of the 119 other humanoids that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: weight, speed, payload, joints, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Borg 01 and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Borg 01 gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- Actuators & motors
- In-house 'Actuator 02', claimed to give 270 Nm from a 1.6 kg package, designed and built in Detroit.
- Hands
- Swappable end-effectors changed autonomously, including vacuum grippers and five-finger hands; an optional four-arm setup for the wheeled version.
- Battery & power
- Up to 12 hours per battery swap in the wheeled configuration.
- Other details
- 173 cm as a biped; switches autonomously between legs and a wheeled base (wheeled preferred for efficiency). Part of a Borg system with an autonomous pallet jack, forklift and a 30 kg mobile cobot.
From the maker
Borg 01 is the only humanoid from Borg Robotics in the atlas.
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
- In development; launch was targeted for Q2 2025
- Where it is sold or used
- Detroit, Michigan, United States
News
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- Borg Robotics reveals modular Borg 01
The Detroit start-up showed a humanoid that switches between legs and wheels with swappable end-effectors and its own 270 Nm actuator.
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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 | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useBorg 01Borg Robotics |  Agile ONEAgile RobotsSame jobs: industrial, logistics · Both walk · Both in development · Similar size |  PHYBOT M1PHYBOTSame jobs: industrial, logistics · Both walk · Both in development · Similar size |  MenteeBot V3.0Mentee RoboticsSame jobs: industrial, logistics · Both walk · Both in development · Similar size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025-04 | 2025-11-19 | 2025-11-21 | 2025-02-12 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | 173 cm | 174 cm | 172 cm | 175 cm |
| Weight | — | 69 kg | — | — |
| Joints | — | — | 32 | — |
| Speed | — | 7.2 km/h | — | 5.4 km/h |
| Payload | — | 20 kg | 20 kg | 25 kg |
| Battery | 12 h | — | 2 h | — |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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