Promobot · social humanoid
Robo-C
A realistic android head and torso with 18 moving facial parts and over 600 micro-expressions; it cannot walk and is pitched as a consultant, administrator or greeter.
- Price
- $50,000Cheaper than 26%
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
Not for sale: Discontinued: Promobot's site says 'The humanoid project is over. We are no longer accepting any applications.'
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Why it matters
Marketed as an android that can be made to look like any person, with 36 degrees of freedom in its face.
Real-world use
Promobot said in 2019 it had orders and was building four units, including one for a government service centre.
Timeline
- Released
- 2019-09
Maker
PromobotCompany · founded 2015 · Perm, RussiaUSD 2.5 million from the Fund for Internet Initiatives Development (2016); revenue of 203.6 million rubles in 2020
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Robo-C costs less than 26% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, joints, battery.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Robo-C and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Robo-C gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 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.
- Hands
- unknown
- Movement
- Stationary
- Actuators & motors
- Mechanical 'muscles' move the eyes, eyebrows, lips and other facial parts (over 600 expressions claimed); neck and torso move, but it cannot walk.
- Materials & build
- Patented artificial skin; appearance can be customised to look like any person.
- AI & software
- Conversational AI built from a person's frequent phrases and context; greets and remembers people by name and delivers product information.
Lineage
Every Promobot humanoid in order.
Watch Robo-C
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $50,000$20,000-$50,000 depending on options and custom appearance (headline maximum shown)
- How to get one
- Not for saleDiscontinued: Promobot's site says 'The humanoid project is over. We are no longer accepting any applications.'
- Sold or delivered
- Four orders in late 2019 (Promobot statement to CNBC, via Interesting Engineering); mass production started September 2019 (Promobot)
- Where it is sold or used
- Russia, with buyers abroad including a Middle Eastern family
- Customers and pilots
- A government agency (unnamed), an Albert Einstein clone for a robot exhibition, and a Middle Eastern family (2019)
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Promobot sells robot clones of real people
Promobot said it had four orders for Robo-C, including copies of a family's parents.
Interesting Engineering - Robo-C mass production starts
Promobot began series production of its android.
Promobot - Humanoid concept 'Alex' shown
Promobot first presented the concept at the Skolkovo Robotics conference in Moscow.
Promobot
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 | Robo-CPromobot |  MesmerEngineered ArtsSame job: social · Both fixed in place · Both on sale or in pilots |  AmecaEngineered ArtsSame job: social · Both fixed in place · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2019-04 | 2018-09-11 | 2021-12-03 |
| Status | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
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| Joints | — | — | — |
| Speed | — | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — |
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| Price | $50,000 | — | — |
Sources
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