UNICCON Group (Omeife Technologies) · social humanoid
Omeife
A 6-foot female humanoid built in Nigeria to speak African languages such as Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Kiswahili alongside English, French and Arabic, aimed at language services for businesses. The maker says it can gesture, hold objects and walk while keeping its balance.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- 183 cmTaller than 93%
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Presented by its maker as Africa's first humanoid robot.
Real-world use
Nigeria's NITDA was directed by the Vice President to partner on commercialisation
Timeline
- Released
- 2022-12
Maker
UNICCON Group (Omeife Technologies)Company · Abuja, Nigeria; Europe office in LondonHow it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Omeife is taller than 93% of the 305 other humanoids that publish a height. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: weight, speed, payload, joints, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for Omeife and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention Omeife 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
- simple
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- Sensors & vision
- Computer vision for face detection and tagging, expression reading, object detection and distance estimation; GPS-based position awareness.
- Materials & build
- Six-foot female humanoid with a prosthetic-style skin.
- AI & software
- Conversational AI adapted to African cultures; speaks English, Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, French, Arabic, Kiswahili, Pidgin, Wazobia and Afrikaans (reports say eight languages besides or including English); real-time language switching with native accents.
- Other details
- Marketed as 'language as a service' for businesses reaching African audiences and as a multipurpose assistant; suggested uses by officials included farms, road construction and classrooms. Promoters projected USD 11.6 billion revenue in three years (their own estimate).
From the maker
Omeife is the only humanoid from UNICCON Group (Omeife Technologies) in the atlas.
Watch Omeife
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
- Prototype
- Sold or delivered
- Not reported as sold
- Where it is sold or used
- Abuja, Nigeria
- Customers and pilots
- Nigeria's NITDA was directed by the Vice President to partner on commercialisation
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Osinbajo unveils Omeife in Abuja
IT Edge News reported the Abuja launch, NITDA's commercialisation role and the promoters' revenue projection.
IT Edge News - Nigeria's VP inaugurates Africa's first humanoid
Techeconomy described the six-foot multilingual robot and Uniccon's language-as-a-service plan.
Techeconomy - Omeife unveiled at GITEX Dubai
Africa.com reported the robot's presentation at GITEX, 10-14 October 2022, and listed its vision and conversation abilities.
Africa.com
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. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | OmeifeUNICCON Group (Omeife Technologies) |  ergoCubIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) with INAILSame job: healthcare · Both walk · Both in development · Similar size |  MoyaDroidUp (Shanghai Zhuoyide)Same jobs: social, healthcare · Both walk · Both in development · Similar size |  XMAN-F1Keenon RoboticsSame jobs: healthcare, social · Both walk · Both in development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2022-10-10 | 2023-09 | 2026-01 | 2025-07-26 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | 183 cm | 150 cm | 165 cm | — |
| Weight | — | 55.7 kg | 32 kg | — |
| Joints | — | — | — | — |
| Speed | — | 3 km/h | — | — |
| Payload | — | 10 kg | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | $173,000 | — |
Sources
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