Telexistence Inc. · general-purpose humanoid
MODEL H
A wheeled humanoid avatar with stereo cameras, binaural microphones and haptic sensors, driven by an operator wearing a VR headset and haptic gloves.
- 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
An early commercial 'avatar' humanoid letting a remote operator see, hear and feel through it over the internet.
Real-world use
Operated from central Tokyo to feed sea turtles on the Ogasawara Islands, about 1,000 km away (2018).
Maker
Telexistence Inc.Company · founded 2017 · Tokyo, JapanUSD 170M (JPY 23bn) Series B in July 2023 including SoftBank, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Airbus Ventures and a Foxconn co-GP fund; about USD…
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
MODEL H has more joints than 61% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for MODEL H and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention MODEL H gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Hands
- simple
- Movement
- Wheeled base · 35 joints
- Sensors & vision
- Stereo cameras, binaural microphones and haptic sensors (NACS).
- Battery & power
- Battery powered (Telexistence); capacity not published.
- AI & software
- Low-latency audio, video and haptic transmission over the internet using Telexistence's own cloud infrastructure; faster boot and startup (Telexistence).
- Other details
- Wheeled; operator cockpit packs the control computer, infrared 3D position tracking and VR/haptic devices into a compact portable case; operators wear a VR headset and haptic gloves (Telexistence, NACS).
Lineage
Every Telexistence (with KDDI) 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
- Mass-production prototype; count not published
- Where it is sold or used
- Japan
- Customers and pilots
- KDDI was strategic investor and joint presenter (2018)
News
The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Telexistence unveils MODEL H
Telexistence presented the avatar robot as a mass-production prototype with KDDI.
Telexistence Inc.
Sources
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