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Dexbot

A research humanoid from Harbin Institute of Technology with a humanoid upper body on a tracked, leg-like mobile base that can change into about ten configurations, aimed at jobs such as disaster response. It has 56 powered joints. Locomotion is tracks rather than wheels; listed as wheels for lack of a better category.

Price
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Height
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Weight
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Payload
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Speed
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Battery
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Why it matters

A research humanoid from Harbin Institute of Technology.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2023-06-01
Released
Not yet
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters publication

Maker

Harbin Institute of TechnologyUniversity lab · Harbin, China

How it stacks up

Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

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Dexbot has more joints than 90% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Joints 56 8200 #24 of 237 · more joints than 90%

Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, battery, price.

What it has been shown doing

We checked public videos and press for Dexbot and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.

Public attention

How much public attention Dexbot 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 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured

What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Wheeled base · 56 joints
Actuators & motors
56 active DoF across a humanoid upper body and a track-legged mobile platform; lightweight, highly integrated design.
Hands
Dexterous manipulation is a stated design goal (hand details are in the full paper, not the abstract).
Other details
Track-legged base transforms into about ten configurations to combine dexterity and mobility.

From the maker

Dexbot is the only humanoid from Harbin Institute of Technology 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
Built
Research prototype
Sold or delivered
not sold
Where it is sold or used
Harbin, China (School of Mechatronics Engineering, HIT)

News

The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. HIT publishes Dexbot design in RA-L

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters published the 56-DoF multi-configuration track-legged humanoid design.

    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (via HIT research portal)

Sources

Figures come from a published paper. Every link below backs something on this page.

Harbin Institute of Technology research portal A Multi-Configuration Track-Legged Humanoid Robot for Dexterous Manipulation and High Mobility: Design and Development (IEEE RA-L, 2023)

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