Walden Robotics · industrial humanoid
Walden robot
An unnamed factory robot from Toyota Research Institute spin-out Walden Robotics (led by MIT's Russ Tedrake): a humanoid upper body with two arms and a sensor head on a wheeled or fixed base instead of legs, driven by 'large behavior models' that learn new tasks. Walden launched from stealth in July 2026 with about $300 million at a $1.1 billion valuation; no specifications are published.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
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- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A pilot use humanoid from Walden Robotics.
Real-world use
Working in production at a Toyota plant in North America since February 2026, including eight-hour shifts loading car parts, cleaning machines and kitting parts.
Maker
Walden RoboticsCompany · founded 2026 (January, spun out of Toyota Research Institute) · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesAbout $300M seed at a $1.1B valuation (July 2026), co-led by Toyota and Deviation Capital, with Nvidia, Boeing, Samsung, CoreWeave Ventures and others
What it has been shown doing
2 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 & sortloads and unloads car parts and kits parts for assembly at the Toyota plant · Jul 2026 · thenextweb.com
- Works on sitedoing production work at a Toyota plant in North America since February 2026, one unit on 8-hour shifts · Jul 2026 · thenextweb.com
Not shown yet:AssembleFoldKitchenToolsFineStairsTerrainGet upRunJumpCarryAutonomous
Public attention
How much public attention Walden robot gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 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
- Hands
- Two arms on a humanoid upper body; hand or gripper design not published.
- Sensors & vision
- Sensor-studded head; specific sensors not published.
- AI & software
- Large Behavior Models (developed at Toyota Research Institute) that learn new tasks and improve through real production practice; Walden builds its own hardware, software and AI.
- Other details
- Wheeled or fixed base instead of legs, which Russ Tedrake says is safer around people and leaves room for bigger batteries and more compute. Tasks shown: loading and unloading car parts, cleaning machinery, kitting, machine tending and tool setting.
From the maker
Walden robot is the only humanoid from Walden Robotics in the atlas.
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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
- Customers and pilots
- Running in production at a Toyota plant in North America since February 2026 (one robot working eight-hour shifts); Samsung SDS partnership for high-precision manufacturing services; Walden says customers span automotive, aerospace, semiconductors, electronics, logistics and life sciences
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Toyota's secret humanoid valued at $1.1B
The Rundown summarised Walden's seed round co-led by Toyota and Deviation Capital and its wheeled, two-armed design.
The Rundown Robotics - Walden Robotics exits stealth with $300M
The Toyota Research Institute spin-out launched with about $300 million in seed funding at a $1.1 billion valuation and a robot already working at a Toyota plant.
The Next Web
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 | Walden robotWalden Robotics |  FeatherFeather RoboticsSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Galbot S1Galbot (Galaxy General Robot)Same job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |  Unitree Dual-Arm Humanoid (R1-A5 / R1-A7 / R1-A5-D / R1-A7-D)Unitree RoboticsSame job: industrial · Both on wheels · Both on sale or in pilots |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2026-07-15 | 2026-09-24 | 2026-01-20 | 2026-04-30 |
| Status | Pilot use | Commercial | Commercial | Commercial |
| Height | — | 180 cm | 179 cm | 160 cm |
| Weight | — | 105 kg | 320 kg | 32 kg |
| Joints | — | 23 | 17 | 22 |
| Speed | — | 4.7 km/h | 5.4 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | 6.8 kg | 50 kg | 4 kg |
| Battery | — | 10 h | 8 h | 1.5 h |
| Price | — | $29,990 | — | $4,290 |
Sources
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