Sabanci University · research humanoid
SURALP
A human-sized biped with 29 driven axes in its legs, arms, waist and neck, using DC motors, belts and Harmonic Drive gears, force-torque sensors, IMUs and cameras. Its legs first walked in May 2008, the design was presented at IROS 2009, and at its public debut in October 2010 it picked up a drink can, handed it to a person and threw the empty can away.
- Price
- $1,000,000Cheaper than 1%
- Height
- 164 cmTaller than 49%
- Weight
- 114 kgHeavier than 88%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Presented as Turkey's first full-body walking humanoid robot.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Sabanci UniversityCompanyHow it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
SURALP is taller than 49% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
SURALP is heavier than 88% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
SURALP has more joints than 42% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
SURALP costs less than 1% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: speed, payload, battery.
Public attention
How much public attention SURALP gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Hands
- simple
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 29 joints
From the maker
SURALP is the only humanoid from Sabanci University (Kemalettin Erbatur's mechatronics team) in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- $1,000,000Project cost about $1 million, funded by TUBITAK (not for sale)
- 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. How we choose
| Measure | SURALPSabanci University (Kemalettin Erbatur's mechatronics team) |  LOLATechnical University of MunichSame job: research · Both walk · Both research platforms · Similar size |  KenshiroUniversity of Tokyo JSK Lab (Masayuki Inaba, Kei Okada)Same job: research · Both walk · Both research platforms · Similar size |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2010-10-13 | 2010 | 2012-11 |
| Status | Research | Research | Research |
| Height | 164 cm | 180 cm | 158 cm |
| Weight | 114 kg | 55 kg | 50 kg |
| Joints | 29 | 25 | 64 |
| Speed | — | 3.3 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — |
| Price | $1,000,000 | — | — |
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