United States · Development
Summary
Moby is Noble Machines' humanoid robot for industrial support work in hazardous, physically demanding and repetitive tasks; already deployed at a Fortune Global 500 customer.
Identity
Status
Development
Category
Humanoid
Type
Humanoid
Function
Industrial work
Audience
Factories
Physical
WEIGHT
~72kg
PAYLOAD
23-27kg
Performance
RUNTIME
5h
WALKING SPEED
0.8 m/s
Systems
COMPUTE
single NVIDIA Jetson
Other
ENVIRONMENT
hazardous, high-heat, toxic, outdoor industrial
Video
Capabilities
DEMONSTRATED (13 Mar 2025) — Multi-terrain locomotion: Moby successfully walked over uneven surfaces and inclines in lab testing.
Weight — ranked across 88 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #22
Payload — ranked across 69 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #9
Comparable systems — same status tier
Context & Benchmark
Comparable systems: Walker S (UBTECH), Walker S2 (UBTECH), DR02 (Deep Robotics), Optimus (Tesla), Walker S1 (UBTECH), Pudu D9 (Pudu Robotics). Related systems: Lumos LUS 2 (Lumos Robotics), LUNA (LimX Dynamics), Ultra Magnus (Chengdu APLUX), Atom 01 (General Autonomy), H2 (Unitree), AI Sapiens K0 (Robotis).
Timeline
DEMONSTRATION (13 Mar 2025) — 'Moby humanoid robot achieves first integrated mobility proofs in lab testing': walked over uneven surfaces/inclines, demonstrated basic stability/balance under external perturbations, validating core locomotion research; first significant public description of mobility/whole-body AI integration published in an industry blog.
Deployments
CUSTOMER SITE (03 Mar 2026) — Fortune Global 500 industrial customer: Noble Machines shipped and deployed its first industrial general-purpose robots to a Fortune Global 500 customer within 18 months of launch, meeting first delivery milestone. Environment: United States. Product/scope: Moby / general-purpose industrial robots.
Supply
Verified supply links: 2 product-specific links, 0 platform-level, 1 layer (Compute & Control). NVIDIA -> Noble Machines: NVIDIA Jetson Thor development kit aboard Moby, Confirmed, High verified. ADLINK Technology -> Noble Machines: ADLINK DLAP edge-AI platform used in GTC 2026 showcase configuration, Confirmed, High verified.