Sanctuary AI · general-purpose humanoid
Phoenix
8th generation
The eighth Phoenix generation from Vancouver's Sanctuary AI, built mainly to capture high-quality training data for its Carbon AI control system, with a wider field of view, better telemetry and a cheaper, simpler build. Sanctuary has not published its size or weight.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Sanctuary's first Phoenix generation designed around a wheeled base, after customers said biped legs were too frail for a strong upper body.
Real-world use
No named Gen 8 customers; in June 2026 Sanctuary reported a 99.5% wire-plugging success rate for an unnamed global Tier 1 automotive supplier (on industrial robots, not a named Phoenix unit)
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Sanctuary AICompany · founded 2018 · Vancouver, CanadaUp to $140M raised by Nov 2024 including a $75.5M Series A and a C$30M Strategic Innovation Fund contribution.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Phoenix (8th generation) and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Phoenix (8th generation) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Hands
- unknown
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- Sensors & vision
- Upgraded depth and vision cameras with a wider field of view and higher resolution than Gen 7; upgraded sensor suite and audio/video system.
- AI & software
- Built to capture high-quality teleoperation and telemetry data for training Sanctuary's AI control system; an improved telemetry system records data for training.
- Other details
- Sanctuary said customer feedback led it to use a wheeled base because bipedal legs were too frail for the strong torso needed for precise work. The design was simplified for lower bill-of-materials cost and faster build and commissioning. By mid-2026 Sanctuary was putting its AI on existing industrial robots while keeping a path to humanoids.
Named suppliers:Microsoft
Lineage
Every Sanctuary AI humanoid in order.
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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
- Built
- not disclosed
- Sold or delivered
- no public sale or unit figures
- Where it is sold or used
- Vancouver, Canada (Sanctuary AI)
- Customers and pilots
- No named Gen 8 customers; in June 2026 Sanctuary reported a 99.5% wire-plugging success rate for an unnamed global Tier 1 automotive supplier (on industrial robots, not a named Phoenix unit)
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Sanctuary validates its AI at a Tier 1 auto supplier
Sanctuary said its hardware-agnostic physical AI hit a 99.5%+ success rate and 2.54 s cycle time on a live wire-plugging task.
The Robot Report - Sanctuary shifts to selling AI for other robots
The Vancouver company is deploying its physical AI on existing industrial robots rather than waiting for humanoid hardware to mature.
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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
| Measure | Phoenix (8th generation)Sanctuary AI |  Type 08 Mobiloid (08式 モビルロイド)HatsuMuv Corp.Same job: research · Both on wheels · Both in development |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2024 | 2026-09-16 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | — | 160 cm |
| Weight | — | 80 kg |
| Joints | — | — |
| Speed | — | 5.8 km/h |
| Payload | — | — |
| Battery | — | 2 h |
| Price | — | — |
Sources
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