Dexterity · working robot
Mech
Two Kawasaki- and HIWIN-built industrial arms mounted on a four-wheel steerable rover that drives itself and loads boxes into trucks, lifting up to 60 kg (about 30 kg per arm) and placing them up to 2.4 m high. The rover holds vacuum pumps, a battery, an onboard computer and up to 16 cameras, and one worker can supervise up to ten units.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- 60 kgCarries more than 37%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Marketed by Dexterity as the first 'industrial superhumanoid': two industrial arms on a mobile base, with no humanoid head or legs.
Real-world use
In 2026 FedEx expanded its Mech trailer-loading deployment from a pilot site to its Hagerstown, Maryland hub; Sagawa Express began truck-loading validation in Japan in October 2025.
Timeline
- Released
- 2025-03
Maker
DexterityCompany · Redwood City, California, United StatesHow it stacks up
Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Mech carries more than 37% of the 84 other working & field robots that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, joints, battery, price.
Public attention
#14 of 396 current machines in public attention.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
- 1 reported deployment
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. It drives itself and loads boxes into trucks, while one worker supervises up to ten units and steps in when needed.
- Actuators & motors
- Rover base with four independently steerable wheels; two industrial arms made by Kawasaki with HIWIN precision motion parts
- Hands
- Vacuum grippers fed by two on-board vacuum pumps; lifts up to 130 lb total (about 65 lb per arm) and places boxes up to 8 ft high; built-in sense of touch and force control
- Sensors & vision
- Up to 16 cameras with depth sensing plus a safety sensor package
- Compute
- On-board AI supercomputer; Dexterity reports NVIDIA TensorRT and CUDA acceleration of its Foresight model
- Battery & power
- On-board battery pack in the rover base
- AI & software
- Dexterity Physical AI with 68+ skill agents and the Foresight world model, trained on over 100 million production actions
- Other details
- Rated for 0-50 C, 1,500 m altitude and 90% humidity; Dexterity claims over 10 years mean time between failures.
Named suppliers:Beckhoff AutomationSignalFlag
From the maker
Mech is the only machine from Dexterity in the atlas.
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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
- Where it is sold or used
- Assembled and tested with contract manufacturer Sanmina in California
- Customers and pilots
- FedEx (trailer loading, expanded to the Hagerstown, Maryland hub in 2026); Sagawa Express in Japan with Sumitomo Corporation
Where it works
1 reported deployment.
- Deployed
FedEx · FedEx Hagerstown Hub · Hagerstown · since 2026-07
FedEx moved Dexterity's Mech trailer-loading robots from pilot into production at its Hagerstown, Maryland hub. No robot count given (Dexterity, Jul 2026) Dexterity
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- FedEx expands Mech trailer loading
FedEx and Dexterity scaled Mech trailer loading to the Hagerstown hub after a multi-year pilot.
Dexterity - Sanmina to build Mechs
Dexterity partnered with Sanmina to manufacture and test Mech robots in California.
Dexterity - Dexterity launches Mech
Dexterity unveiled Mech, a two-armed robot on a wheeled rover for truck loading and palletizing.
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