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THORMANG3
Photo: ROBOTIS (official image), from emanual.robotis.com. Image policy
CommercialSouth Korea

ROBOTIS · research humanoid

THORMANG3

An open research biped from ROBOTIS built from its DYNAMIXEL-P servo actuators and run on ROS. It follows the THOR-MANG robots that ROBOTIS and Korean university teams took to the DARPA Robotics Challenge (2013 trials, 2015 finals).

Price
—Not published
Height
138 cmTaller than 28%
Weight
42 kgHeavier than 26%
Payload
—Not published
Speed
—Not published
Battery
—Not published

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Why it matters

THORMANG3 is on the market today.

Real-world use

University and institute research labs

Timeline

First shown
2016-03
Released
Not yet
No reveal date found; earliest dated maker source is the ROBOTIS GitHub release of the THORMANG3 ROS packages (4 March 2016)

Maker

ROBOTISCompany · South Korea

How it stacks up

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

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

What it has been shown doing

We checked public videos and press for THORMANG3 and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.

Public attention

How much public attention THORMANG3 gets, from open data.

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

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Hands
unknown
Movement
Walks on legs · 29 joints
Chip
NUC mini PC (Core i5/i7) (Intel)Two Intel NUC Core i5 computers handle control and perception.
Actuators & motors
29 DoF from DYNAMIXEL-P (PH series) actuators: 10 x 200 W PH54-200, 11 x 100 W PH54-100 and 8 x 20 W PH42-020 (updated to DYNAMIXEL-P in June 2019).
Sensors & vision
Logitech C920 HD camera, optional Intel RealSense depth camera, optional Hokuyo UTM-30LX-EW lidar, MicroStrain 3DM-GX4-25 IMU, two ATI Mini58 force/torque sensors in the ankles.
Compute
Two Intel NUC computers with Core i5, 8 GB RAM and 128 GB SSD each; on-board wireless router.
Battery & power
Two packs: 22 V 22,000 mAh and 18.5 V 11,000 mAh.
Materials & build
137.5 cm tall, 42 kg.
AI & software
Ubuntu LTS with ROS (Kinetic and Melodic packages); open-source motion, walking, balance and manipulation packages on GitHub under Apache-2.0.

Named suppliers:ROS (Open Robotics)IntelIntel RealSenseROBOTIS (Dynamixel)HokuyoATI Industrial AutomationMicroStrain

Lineage

Every ROBOTIS humanoid in order.

  1. DARwIn-OPDARwIn-OP2010Discontinued
  2. THORMANG3THORMANG32016Commercial
  3. AI WorkerAI Worker2025Commercial
  4. AI Sapiens (K0)AI Sapiens (K0)2026Commercial

Watch THORMANG3

Video: ROBOTIS on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

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
Sold commercially as a research platform; unit count not reported
Where it is sold or used
South Korea (ROBOTIS)
Customers and pilots
University and institute research labs

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
MeasureTHORMANG3THORMANG3ROBOTISREEM-CREEM-CPAL RoboticsSame job: research · Both walk · Both on sale or in pilots
First shown2016-032013
StatusCommercialCommercial
Height138 cm165 cm
Weight42 kg80 kg
Joints2944
Speed——
Payload——
Battery——
Price——

Sources

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

ROBOTIS e-Manual THORMANG3 introduction ROBOTIS on GitHub ROBOTIS-THORMANG-MPC (THORMANG3 ROS packages)

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