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Asimov 1 humanoid robot

Asimov 1

Educational humanoid for whole-body control and locomotion training.

Meet Asimov 1

Asimov 1 is our educational humanoid for builders, engineers and researchers who want to work with real hardware. Assemble, customize, and program it yourself. Expect 100+ hours of build time.

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1.2M. 35KG. 25+2 DoF.

Make it yours.

Customize the hardware, appearance and capabilities around your use case.

Learn by doing.

Assemble Asimov from the ground up and learn how locomotion and whole-body control works.

Open by design.

Full access to the hardware, so you can build, modify and understand every layer.

Repair fast.

Swap parts, fix failures and get back up quickly.

Test your models.

Run your own agents and validate on real hardware.

Try before you build

Digital Asimov lets you explore the robot in your browser with no hardware, no setup and no cost.

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Where to buy Asimov 1

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$20,000Save ~$11,000

We negotiate bulk pricing on the core hardware, so building it yourself costs less than sourcing everything on your own. All that's left for you is the fun part: building.

Final price may vary by destination country, based on tariffs and shipping.

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