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MODEL H
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Telexistence Inc. · general-purpose humanoid

MODEL H

A wheeled humanoid avatar with stereo cameras, binaural microphones and haptic sensors, driven by an operator wearing a VR headset and haptic gloves.

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

An early commercial 'avatar' humanoid letting a remote operator see, hear and feel through it over the internet.

Real-world use

Operated from central Tokyo to feed sea turtles on the Ogasawara Islands, about 1,000 km away (2018).

Timeline

First shown
2018-05-29
Released
Not yet
Telexistence and KDDI joint press conference

Maker

Telexistence Inc.Company · founded 2017 · Tokyo, Japan

USD 170M (JPY 23bn) Series B in July 2023 including SoftBank, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Airbus Ventures and a Foxconn co-GP fund; about USD…

How it stacks up

Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, battery, price.

What it has been shown doing

We checked public videos and press for MODEL H and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.

Public attention

How much public attention MODEL H gets, from open data.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Hands
simple
Movement
Wheeled base · 35 joints
Sensors & vision
Stereo cameras, binaural microphones and haptic sensors (NACS).
Battery & power
Battery powered (Telexistence); capacity not published.
AI & software
Low-latency audio, video and haptic transmission over the internet using Telexistence's own cloud infrastructure; faster boot and startup (Telexistence).
Other details
Wheeled; operator cockpit packs the control computer, infrared 3D position tracking and VR/haptic devices into a compact portable case; operators wear a VR headset and haptic gloves (Telexistence, NACS).

Lineage

Every Telexistence (with KDDI) humanoid in order.

  1. MODEL HMODEL H2018Prototype
  2. Model-TModel-T2020Pilot use

Watch MODEL H

Video: Impress Watch on YouTube. Plays from youtube-nocookie.com when you press play.

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
Mass-production prototype; count not published
Where it is sold or used
Japan
Customers and pilots
KDDI was strategic investor and joint presenter (2018)

News

The latest 1, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.

  1. Telexistence unveils MODEL H

    Telexistence presented the avatar robot as a mass-production prototype with KDDI.

    Telexistence Inc.

Sources

Figures come from the maker. Every link below backs something on this page.

Telexistence Unveiling a mass production prototype for MODEL H ISPR Telexistence Robot H lets you see, hear, and feel through it NACS Japanese Retailers Use Robots to Stock Shelves

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