Clone Robotics · research humanoid
Protoclone V1
Faceless anatomical android from a Polish-American start-up, shown hanging and twitching in a viral 2025 video; it was not shown walking. The firm talks of a small 'Clone Alpha' run (unconfirmed).
- 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
Musculoskeletal android moved by about 1,000 artificial 'Myofiber' muscles over a polymer skeleton.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
Clone RoboticsCompanyHow it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Protoclone V1 has more joints than 100% 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 Protoclone V1 and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Protoclone V1 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
- Walks on legs · 200 joints
- Actuators & motors
- About 1,000 Myofiber artificial muscles (water-pressure driven, Clone claims 30% contraction in under 50 ms); Protoclone V1 ran pneumatically with a move to hydraulics planned; Clone Alpha design uses a 500 W pump.
- Hands
- 26 DoF across each hand-wrist-elbow combination (Clone Alpha description).
- Sensors & vision
- About 500 sensors (Protoclone); four depth cameras (Clone Alpha).
- Compute
- Edge GPU (not named).
- Battery & power
- Clone says the android runs on water and electricity; capacity not published.
- Materials & build
- Polymer skeleton with 206 bone analogues and artificial ligaments; soft-bodied design.
- AI & software
- Cybernet visuomotor foundation model; natural-language interaction.
- Other details
- Over 200 DoF claimed for Protoclone V1.
From the maker
Protoclone V1 is the only humanoid from Clone Robotics in the atlas.
Watch Protoclone V1
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- Pre-order
- Sold or delivered
- Reservations for the first 279 Clone Alpha units; none confirmed delivered.
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Protoclone V1 video
Clone showed its faceless musculoskeletal android with 1,000 Myofibers.
Circuit Digest - Clone Alpha pre-orders announced
Clone opened orders for the first 279 units.
Maginative
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 | Protoclone V1Clone Robotics |  4NE1 (3rd generation)NEURA RoboticsSame job: home · Both walk · Both in development |  AGIBOT Q1AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics)Same job: home · Both walk · Both in development |  MenteeBotMentee Robotics (Mentee by Mobileye)Same job: home · Both walk · Both in development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025-02-20 | 2025-06-24 | 2025-12-31 | 2024 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | — | 180 cm | 80 cm | 175 cm |
| Weight | — | 50 kg | 15 kg | 70 kg |
| Joints | 200 | — | — | 40 |
| Speed | — | — | — | 5.4 km/h |
| Payload | — | 100 kg | — | 25 kg |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | $2,800 | — |
Sources
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