UC Berkeley · research humanoid
Berkeley Humanoid Lite
An open-source, mostly 3D-printed bipedal humanoid, 0.8 m tall and 16 kg, with two 5-DoF arms and simple grippers but no head in the base design, built around printed cycloidal gearboxes. All hardware, firmware and training code are public and the parts cost under $5,000.
- Price
- $5,000Cheaper than 87%
- Height
- 80 cmTaller than 4%
- Weight
- 16 kgHeavier than 7%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- 0.5 hRuns longer than 1%
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Why it matters
One of the first fully open-source, sub-$5,000 adult-proportioned bipedal humanoids with arms.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- First shown
- 2025-04-24
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
UC BerkeleyCompanyHow it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Berkeley Humanoid Lite is taller than 4% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Berkeley Humanoid Lite is heavier than 7% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Berkeley Humanoid Lite runs longer than 1% of the 119 other humanoids that publish a battery. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Berkeley Humanoid Lite costs less than 87% of the 85 other humanoids that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: speed, payload, joints.
Public attention
How much public attention Berkeley Humanoid Lite gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Hands
- simple
- Movement
- Walks on legs
From the maker
Berkeley Humanoid Lite is the only humanoid from UC Berkeley (Hybrid Robotics, Koushil Sreenath's lab) in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- $5,000Open-source build; bill of materials about $4,312 at US prices (under $5,000 per the paper; the RSS listing says under $6,000)
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
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 | Berkeley Humanoid LiteUC Berkeley (Hybrid Robotics, Koushil Sreenath's lab) |  Lingxi X1AgiBot (Zhiyuan Robotics)Same jobs: research, education · Both walk · Both research platforms |  iRonCub3Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), AMI Lab (Daniele Pucci)Same job: research · Both walk · Both research platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025-04-24 | 2024 | 2025-06 |
| Status | Research | Research | Research |
| Height | 80 cm | — | — |
| Weight | 16 kg | — | 70 kg |
| Joints | — | — | — |
| Speed | — | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — |
| Battery | 0.5 h | — | — |
| Price | $5,000 | — | — |
Sources
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