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Agile Justin
Photo: German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics (official image), from dlr.de. Image policy
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German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics · research humanoid

Agile Justin

A second, faster sibling of DLR's Rollin' Justin, built with about 1.5x quicker arms and faster control loops; it was first seen catching balls with Rollin' Justin in early 2012. DLR lists 1.91 m height, a 45 kg upper body on a 150 kg wheeled platform, 53 degrees of freedom, whole-body tactile skin, more than 60 minutes of battery and 2 m/s top speed.

Price
—Not published
Height
191 cmTaller than 98%
Weight
195 kgHeavier than 97%
Payload
15 kgCarries more than 60%
Speed
7.2 km/hFaster than 77%
Battery
1 hRuns longer than 3%

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Why it matters

In 2023 DLR showed it turning never-seen objects in its four-fingered hand by touch alone, using skills learned through deep reinforcement learning.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2012-01
Released
Not yet
DLR sneak-peek video of Agile Justin playing catch with Rollin' Justin; demos planned for Automatica 2012

Maker

German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Robotics and MechatronicsGovernment lab · founded 1969 · Cologne, Germany

Government-funded; total DLR funding EUR 1.701 billion in 2024 (52.9% government, 47.1% third-party)

How it stacks up

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Public attention

How much public attention Agile Justin gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • No recent press stories listed yet

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What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Hands
dexterous
Movement
Wheeled base · 53 joints

Lineage

Every German Aerospace Center (DLR) humanoid in order.

  1. Rollin' JustinRollin' Justin2008Research
  2. Agile JustinAgile Justin2012Research
  3. TOROTORO2013Research

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found

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. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose

Full comparison
MeasureAgile JustinAgile JustinGerman Aerospace Center (DLR)Human Support Robot (HSR)Human Support Robot (HSR)Toyota Motor CorporationSame job: home · Both on wheels · Both research platforms
First shown2012-012012-09-21
StatusResearchResearch
Height191 cm100 cm
Weight195 kg37 kg
Joints5311
Speed7.2 km/h0.8 km/h
Payload15 kg1.2 kg
Battery1 h—
Price——

Sources

Figures come from the maker. Every link below backs something on this page.

German Aerospace Center (DLR) Agile Justin Hizook Agile Justin: DLR's Rollin' Justin Gets a Younger, More Agile Brother German Aerospace Center (DLR) Breakthrough in robotics research with adaptive AI Logo: German Aerospace Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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