ugo Inc. (ugo株式会社) · industrial humanoid
ugo Nova
A Japanese-designed and Japanese-built wheeled semi-humanoid with two 7-axis arms, a 2-axis head with stereo cameras, a 4-axis waist and mecanum wheels, built to collect teleoperated training data and then run learned models on board (NVIDIA Jetson Thor). Height ranges from 126 cm folded to 162 cm extended; payload is 4 kg per arm or 10 kg with both, and ugo plans mass production from 2027.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 162 cmTaller than 46%
- Weight
- 100 kgHeavier than 83%
- Payload
- 10 kgCarries more than 41%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- 6 hRuns longer than 68%
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Why it matters
A prototype humanoid from ugo Inc..
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
ugo Inc. (ugo株式会社)Company · founded 2018 · Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JapanHow it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
ugo Nova is taller than 46% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
ugo Nova is heavier than 83% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
ugo Nova carries more than 41% of the 132 other humanoids that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
ugo Nova has more joints than 17% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
ugo Nova runs longer than 68% of the 119 other humanoids that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: speed, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for ugo Nova and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention ugo Nova 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 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base · 22 joints
- Chip
- Jetson AGX Thor (T5000) (NVIDIA)Jetson Thor for on-board inference.
- Actuators & motors
- 22 DoF: arms 7 x 2, hands 1 x 2, head 2, waist 4 (rotates and bends); mecanum-wheel omnidirectional base; 100 Hz arm control.
- Hands
- Tactile hand end effector standard (force sensing only for now); up to 4 kg per arm, 10 kg with both; compatible with the YUBI gripper.
- Sensors & vision
- Stereo camera in the head and an RGB camera in each hand; records video, joint states, torque, end-effector pose and commands together.
- Compute
- NVIDIA Jetson Thor for on-board inference.
- Battery & power
- Up to about 6 hours.
- Materials & build
- Height 126-162 cm (folded to extended), 56 cm wide, 65 cm deep, about 100 kg. Industrial design by GK Kyoto.
- AI & software
- Teleoperation with a bilateral controller (developed by Asratec) or VR controllers, recording training data directly; ROS 2, URDF, rosbag and LeRobot; part of the 'ugo Physical AI Fabric' with ugo Data Factory and ugo Model Lab; a vision-tactile-language-action model is planned under Japan's GENIAC programme.
Named suppliers:NVIDIAROS (Open Robotics)Hugging FaceAsratec
Lineage
Every ugo Inc. 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
- Prototype for the AIRoA/NEDO competition; mass production planned from 2027
- Where it is sold or used
- Designed and made in Japan by ugo
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- ugo announces Japanese-built ugo Nova
ugo unveiled a wheeled two-armed data-collection robot with Jetson Thor and said mass production would start in 2027.
ugo - ugo Nova specs detailed
A sponsored report listed the robot's 22 DoF, 126-162 cm height range, 100 kg weight and six-hour runtime.
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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. How we choose
| Measure | ugo Novaugo Inc. |  GRWFourierSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both in development · Similar size |  REX G1RoboScienceSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both in development · Similar size |  HMND 01 (wheeled Alpha)Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd)Same job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both in development · Similar size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2026-09-16 | 2026-07-17 | 2026-08-17 | 2025-02-12 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | 162 cm | 165 cm | 170 cm | 175 cm |
| Weight | 100 kg | 160 kg | — | 70 kg |
| Joints | 22 | 29 | 22 | — |
| Speed | — | — | — | 5.4 km/h |
| Payload | 10 kg | 16 kg | 10 kg | 15 kg |
| Battery | 6 h | 4 h | 4 h | 4 h |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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