TeknTrash Robotics · industrial humanoid
ALPHA
A wheeled waste-sorting humanoid with a 2-DoF camera head, two 6-DoF arms with grippers and a lifting column, meant to pick recyclables off conveyor belts. It is trained on hand and posture data captured from human sorters and NVIDIA's Isaac tools.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- 5 kgCarries more than 22%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- 7 hRuns longer than 74%
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Why it matters
A pilot use humanoid from TeknTrash Robotics.
Real-world use
Pilot announced in April 2025 at Sharp Group's Rainham recycling plant in East London, where workers in VR headsets record picking motions to train the robot.
Maker
TeknTrash RoboticsCompany · London, UK (China base in Suzhou Industrial Park since November 2025)How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
ALPHA carries more than 22% of the 132 other humanoids that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
ALPHA runs longer than 74% of the 119 other humanoids that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, joints, price.
What it has been shown doing
1 of 14 skills we track, each from a public video or report. Demos can be staged or remote-controlled; we say so when the source does.
- Pick & sortpilot at Sharp Group's Rainham recycling plant, being trained to pick waste from a conveyor · Jun 2025 · roboticstomorrow.com
Not shown yet:AssembleFoldKitchenToolsFineStairsTerrainGet upRunJumpCarryOn siteAutonomous
Public attention
How much public attention ALPHA gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 4 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
- Wheeled base
- Chip
- Jetson AGX Orin (NVIDIA)Jetson AGX Orin (275 TOPS) on board; heavy planning runs on Google Cloud.
- Actuators & motors
- Two 6-DoF arms, a 2-DoF head (pitch and rotation) and a lifting column with 1 m of travel at up to 150 mm/s; arm reach up to 2,000 mm. Motor types not published.
- Hands
- Two grippers rather than suction cups; the arms lift up to 5 kg combined. TeknTrash says the grippers are trained on captured human hand and finger motion.
- Sensors & vision
- Binocular depth camera in the head; a 3D camera on each arm (85 x 58 degree view, 0.25-2.5 m range); monocular camera and microphone on the column; base lidar, depth camera, three ultrasonic sensors, IMU and encoders. A separate hyperspectral camera at the start of the conveyor identifies items before they reach the robot.
- Compute
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin (275 TOPS, 12-core Arm CPU) on board; heavy processing and task assignment run on a cloud server (Google Cloud Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Data Fusion).
- Battery & power
- Up to 7 hours of operation; supports automatic charging.
- AI & software
- Trained on posture, hand and finger data recorded from human sorters wearing Meta Quest 3 headsets running TeknTrash's HoloLab app; data processed in NVIDIA Isaac Lab and run on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T for inference, with data kept in LeRobot format. Site-specific waste classification models.
- Other details
- Designed to work in groups of at least two units over Wi-Fi with cloud task allocation. Target of 42 picks per minute. Sold as Robot-as-a-Service: a GBP 50,000 implementation fee, then 12 months without operating fees, then a monthly fee pegged to the replaced worker's salary. Also logs item-level waste data for EPR and ESG reporting.
Named suppliers:NVIDIAArm HoldingsHugging Face
From the maker
ALPHA is the only humanoid from TeknTrash Robotics in the atlas.
Watch ALPHA
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- Not disclosed; pilot units only.
- Sold or delivered
- Not sold outright; offered as Robot-as-a-Service.
- Where it is sold or used
- UK (London); in November 2025 TeknTrash opened a base in Suzhou Industrial Park, China, for assembly, testing and R&D, operating there as Titan Rui Technology.
- Customers and pilots
- Sharp Group recycling plant in Rainham, East London (pilot announced April 2025); a tyre recycling plant case in Madrid is also listed. Partners named: Queen Mary University, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, Meta.
News
The latest 4, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- TeknTrash wins third prize at Huzhou contest
TeknTrash took third prize at a global entrepreneurship contest in Huzhou, China, and said it will scale ALPHA into real operations.
TeknTrash Robotics - TeknTrash opens a base in Suzhou
The company set up an office in Suzhou Industrial Park to assemble, test and develop ALPHA for Asian markets.
TeknTrash Robotics - Google Cloud features TeknTrash
Google Cloud published a customer story on TeknTrash's cloud data pipeline for waste-sorting robots.
TeknTrash Robotics - Humanoid recycling pilot starts with Sharp Group
TeknTrash and Sharp Group began a pilot at a London recycling plant, recording sorters' movements for six months to train ALPHA.
TeknTrash Robotics
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 | ALPHATeknTrash Robotics |  AI WorkerROBOTISSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useSpaceo ProMuks RoboticsSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  CASBOT W1CASBOT (Beijing Zhongke Huiling Robot Technology)Same job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025-04-18 | 2025-05-15 | 2025-03-06 | 2025-07-26 |
| Status | Pilot use | Commercial | Pilot use | Commercial |
| Height | — | 162 cm | 210 cm | 210 cm |
| Weight | — | 90 kg | 60 kg | 260 kg |
| Joints | — | 25 | 20 | 20 |
| Speed | — | 5.4 km/h | 5.4 km/h | 4.3 km/h |
| Payload | 5 kg | 10 kg | 5 kg | 10 kg |
| Battery | 7 h | 6 h | 4 h | 5 h |
| Price | — | $69,000 | — | — |
Sources
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