Dexmate · research humanoid
Vega
Wheeled humanoid with a height-adjustable torso and two arms for research and light industrial work.
- Price
- $75,000Cheaper than 20%
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
$75,000.00 USD (Vega 1 Pro, '2026 Promotional Pricing', excludes end effectors; ~4-week lead time); Vega 1 U $42,000.00 USD. Official maker page, not an affiliate link. Checked 2026-10-10.
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Why it matters
Vega is on the market today.
Real-world use
Research labs and firms shown by Dexmate include Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, Princeton, LG and Samsung SDS; NEC (investor, 2026)
Timeline
- First shown
- 2025
- Released
- 2025
Maker
DexmateCompany · founded 2024Undisclosed investment from NEC Orchestrating Future Fund (Aug 2026); other totals not confirmed from a primary source.
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Vega costs less than 20% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, joints, battery.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Vega and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
A hidden gem: a recent robot with full published specs that gets little attention so far.
- 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 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- Chip
- Jetson AGX Thor (T5000) (NVIDIA)Jetson Thor with 128 GB, about 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS.
- Actuators & motors
- 24 DoF total with two 7-DoF arms; brakes on major joints.
- Hands
- DexGripper S (1.0 kg) or D (1.4 kg): 60 N grasp force, 55-degree opening.
- Sensors & vision
- Hardware-synchronised sensors for aligned training data; detachable close-range vision camera.
- Compute
- NVIDIA Jetson Thor (128 GB, about 2,070 AI TFLOPS).
- Battery & power
- 4.8 kWh, about 20 hours (16+ at full AI load).
- Materials & build
- Three-section folding torso reaching from floor to over 2 m.
- AI & software
- Common software foundation with SDK and API via DexHub; real-time self-collision checking, out-of-limit command blocking and software e-stop.
- Other details
- Wheeled base; each arm carries about 5 kg (10-15 lb) in any pose; 2.2 m workspace reach.
Named suppliers:NVIDIA
From the maker
Vega is the only humanoid from Dexmate in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $75,000Vega 1 Pro at $75,000 on Dexmate’s own shop, labelled 2026 promotional pricing (checked 12 October 2026); hands or grippers cost extra. The earlier pre-order price was $89,999.
- How to get one
- Buy direct
- Sold or delivered
- Paid deployments (Moonlake); unit count not published.
- Where it is sold or used
- United States, South Korea, Japan
- Customers and pilots
- Research labs and firms shown by Dexmate include Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, Princeton, LG and Samsung SDS; NEC (investor, 2026)
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- NEC fund invests in Dexmate
NEC's corporate venture fund made an undisclosed investment and plans joint physical-AI work.
The AI Insider
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 | VegaDexmate |  AI WorkerROBOTISSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar price |  Iggy RobigusSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar price |  FeatherFeather RoboticsSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025 | 2025-05-15 | 2025-04-29 | 2026-09-24 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | 162 cm | 170 cm | 180 cm |
| Weight | — | 90 kg | 101 kg | 105 kg |
| Joints | — | 25 | — | 23 |
| Speed | — | 5.4 km/h | — | 4.7 km/h |
| Payload | — | 10 kg | 2 kg | 6.8 kg |
| Battery | — | 6 h | 8 h | 10 h |
| Price | $75,000 | $69,000 | $54,500 | $29,990 |
Sources
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