Feather Robotics · research humanoid
Feather
A wheeled humanoid developer platform from a US startup: two 1 m, 7-DoF arms on a torso that rises from 1.2 m to 1.8 m, a camera head on a 2-DoF neck and an omnidirectional base. Customers bring their own AI models through its SDK; 6.8 kg is the peak per-arm payload (1.8 kg rated at full reach), and hands or grippers are options.
- Price
- $29,990Cheaper than 49%
- Height
- 180 cmTaller than 86%
- Weight
- 105 kgHeavier than 85%
- Payload
- 6.8 kgCarries more than 36%
- Speed
- 4.7 km/hFaster than 47%
- Battery
- 10 hRuns longer than 91%
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Why it matters
Feather is on the market today.
Real-world use
Launched with $7.6 million in seed funding and said to be shipping at launch in September 2026.
Maker
Feather RoboticsCompany · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States$7.6M pre-seed/seed led by Gradient with Builder Capital, Geometry, SEED Innovations and Virgo VC (announced Sept 2026)
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Feather is taller than 86% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Feather is heavier than 85% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Feather is faster than 47% of the 122 other humanoids that publish a speed. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Feather carries more than 36% of the 132 other humanoids that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Feather has more joints than 22% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Feather runs longer than 91% of the 119 other humanoids that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Feather costs less than 49% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Feather and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Feather gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
- about 30 units or vehicles reported by the maker or press (may be a company-wide total)
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 · 23 joints
- Chip
- Jetson Nano (NVIDIA)Customer-swappable compute bay: Jetson Nano is the entry option.Jetson AGX Orin (NVIDIA)Jetson AGX Orin is a mid option in the swappable bay.Jetson AGX Thor (T5000) (NVIDIA)Jetson Thor is the top option in the swappable bay.
- Actuators & motors
- 23 DoF: two 7-DoF arms, 2-DoF neck, 6-DoF holonomic base and a torso lift with 600 mm travel at up to 150 mm/s.
- Hands
- Field-swappable 6-DoF hands or parallel-jaw grippers; 1 m arms carry 1.8 kg sustained at full reach and 6.8 kg peak.
- Sensors & vision
- Head stereo RGB-D camera (ZED 2i, ZED X or ZED X Mini); optional wrist cameras; 4-microphone array and speaker.
- Compute
- Customer-swappable: NVIDIA Jetson Nano, Jetson AGX Orin or Jetson Thor, or custom.
- Battery & power
- Dual hot-swappable 48 V, 50 Ah packs; about 10 hours at 240 W load; 48/24/12 V auxiliary lines.
- AI & software
- Open Python SDK (Apache 2.0) and ROS 2; built-in teleoperation via Apple Vision Pro or Meta Quest, inverse kinematics, collision detection and simulation; customers bring their own models (press cites Physical Intelligence, Skild AI and Generalist as compatible).
- Other details
- 500 x 510 mm footprint, 105 kg, 1.3 m/s top speed; 10-inch touchscreen; rear emergency stop that cuts motor power. One-year warranty.
Named suppliers:NVIDIAROS (Open Robotics)Physical IntelligenceSkild AIStereolabsGeneralist AI
From the maker
Feather is the only humanoid from Feather Robotics in the atlas.
Watch Feather
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $29,990Promotional starting price $29,990 (listed $32,990); fleet and custom pricing available.
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Current plant can make 30 robots a month; a planned facility targets 200
- Sold or delivered
- Orders being fulfilled; company reports over $1M revenue
- Where it is sold or used
- Bay Area, California
- Customers and pilots
- Unnamed manufacturing and food-service firms; Feather cites restaurant cooking in Japan and lab cleaning
Where it is sold and supported
What Feather Robotics publishes about where you can get Feather and who looks after it.
- Sold in
- The maker is a US company with US-based engineers; no shipping regions are listed
- How to get it
- Order page on the maker's site, with financing offered
- Support
- US-based engineers for setup, configuration debugging and parts replacement; warranty terms are not stated
From feather.dev, checked October 12, 2026. Simbeing does not sell robots: buy from the maker's own page.
For builders
Can you program Feather? What Feather Robotics publishes.
Public documentation, an SDK or open-source code. No GitHub repository found on the maker's pages when checked.
- How
- Public Python SDK documentation (Python 3.9 to 3.14) with an API reference, a ROS 2 package, keyboard and controller teleoperation; the support page also mentions C++ and motion planning docs
- Developer pages
- docs.feather.dev
From docs.feather.dev, checked October 12, 2026. This describes what the maker publishes, not what the robot can do.
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Feather launches $29,990 wheeled humanoid
Feather Robotics launched with $7.6 million led by Gradient and a developer robot that runs customers' own AI models.
Humanoids Daily - Feather sells robots, developers bring the AI
RuntimeWire summarised the founders' backgrounds, more than $1M in reported revenue and the Android-like platform pitch.
RuntimeWire
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 | FeatherFeather Robotics |  AI WorkerROBOTISSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size · Similar price |  Iggy RobigusSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size · Similar price |  SyntroWorkFarSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots · Similar size · Similar price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2026-09-24 | 2025-05-15 | 2025-04-29 | 2024-08 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | 180 cm | 162 cm | 170 cm | 170 cm |
| Weight | 105 kg | 90 kg | 101 kg | 108 kg |
| Joints | 23 | 25 | — | 45 |
| Speed | 4.7 km/h | 5.4 km/h | — | — |
| Payload | 6.8 kg | 10 kg | 2 kg | 20 kg |
| Battery | 10 h | 6 h | 8 h | 10 h |
| Price | $29,990 | $69,000 | $54,500 | $10,000 |
Sources
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