{
  "slug": "persona-ai-gen1",
  "name": "Persona Gen 1",
  "manufacturer": {
    "name": "Persona AI, Inc.",
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://persona.ai"
  },
  "category": "industrial",
  "announced": {
    "date": "2025-05-17",
    "source": {
      "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/persona-ai-raises-27m-develops-purpose-built-humanoid-robots-shipyards/",
      "quote": "Persona AI Inc., a humanoid robot and embodied artificial intelligence developer, this week said it has closed an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round, raising $27 million.",
      "accessed": "2026-09-20"
    }
  },
  "specs": {},
  "order_type": {
    "value": "quote",
    "status": "claimed",
    "source": {
      "url": "https://info.persona.ai/lease-a-humanoid",
      "quote": "Learn how the Persona Humanoid Leasing Program includes the AI platform, autonomous API updates, custom tooling modules, and comprehensive fleet management training.",
      "accessed": "2026-09-21"
    },
    "note": "Gen 1 is not offered with a published price or checkout; acquisition is via a robotics-as-a-service leasing program reached through a 'Contact Us' form, not a self-service cart."
  },
  "price_history": [],
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "id": "teleoperation-shown",
      "status": "demonstrated",
      "autonomy": "teleoperated",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://persona.ai/robot-welding-in-a-real-industrial-environment/",
        "quote": "our human operators guide the robot through dexterous tasks in real time",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "official",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The text source was reviewed, but no video segment was watched; the existing capability status and autonomy classification for the exact recorded robot variant were not fully verified."
        }
      },
      "note": "Persona AI's own account of a VR-headset-teleoperated welding test at ARC Specialties, Houston; explicitly described as human-guided, collecting data toward future autonomous operation."
    },
    {
      "id": "tool-use",
      "status": "demonstrated",
      "autonomy": "teleoperated",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://persona.ai/robot-welding-in-a-real-industrial-environment/",
        "quote": "strike a lit torch, maintain a steady arc, and successfully lay down a weld path",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "official",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The text source was reviewed, but no video segment was watched; the existing capability status and autonomy classification for the exact recorded robot variant were not fully verified."
        }
      },
      "note": "Same teleoperated welding-torch demo; robot squats, welds and stands back up under its own power while under human teleoperation."
    }
  ],
  "delivery": {
    "status": "demonstrated",
    "timeline": [
      {
        "date": "2025-05-17",
        "event": "announced",
        "detail": "Persona AI (Houston) announced a $27M oversubscribed pre-seed round and said it had already signed an agreement with HD Hyundai to deploy humanoids into shipyards, with initial delivery expected within 18 months.",
        "quantity_min": null,
        "quantity_max": null,
        "sector": "manufacturing",
        "source": {
          "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/persona-ai-raises-27m-develops-purpose-built-humanoid-robots-shipyards/",
          "quote": "Persona AI said it has already signed an agreement with HD Hyundai, a global leader in shipbuilding, to deploy humanoids into shipyards, with initial delivery expected within 18 months.",
          "accessed": "2026-09-20"
        }
      },
      {
        "date": "2026-07-13",
        "event": "first-demo",
        "detail": "Persona AI deployed a humanoid welding robot at its own Houston facility, sized to fit human welders' physical envelope in confined shipyard spaces; described as prototype/pre-commercial, with commercial testing targeted for 2027.",
        "quantity_min": null,
        "quantity_max": null,
        "sector": "manufacturing",
        "source": {
          "url": "https://www.robotaigeek.com/news/persona-ai-deploys-humanoid-welding-robot-in-houston-shipyards",
          "quote": "The 175cm, 85kg robot is designed to fit the same physical envelope as human welders in confined shipyard spaces.",
          "accessed": "2026-09-20"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "promises": [
    {
      "id": "persona-ai-gen1-prototype-2026",
      "claim": "Prototype humanoid welding robots completed by end of 2026",
      "target": "2026",
      "made_on": "2025-05-07",
      "quote": "Prototype completion targeted for end of 2026",
      "source_url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hd-hyundai-and-persona-ai-sign-agreement-to-deploy-humanoid-welding-robots-for-shipbuilding-automation-302449258.html",
      "source_name": "PR Newswire, HD Hyundai / Persona AI",
      "accessed": "2026-09-27",
      "status": "open"
    },
    {
      "id": "persona-ai-gen1-commercial-2027",
      "claim": "Field testing and full commercial deployment at shipyards",
      "target": "2027",
      "made_on": "2025-05-07",
      "quote": "field testing and commercialization commencing in 2027",
      "source_url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hd-hyundai-and-persona-ai-sign-agreement-to-deploy-humanoid-welding-robots-for-shipbuilding-automation-302449258.html",
      "source_name": "PR Newswire, HD Hyundai / Persona AI",
      "accessed": "2026-09-27",
      "status": "open"
    }
  ],
  "notes": [
    "Persona AI's own site (persona.ai) does not publish numeric specs (height/weight/DOF/speed/payload) for Gen 1; specs is left empty rather than sourced to press coverage. Press figures conflict: RobotAIGeek (Jul 2026, on-site Houston deployment) reports '175cm, 85kg', while other secondary aggregators (not traced to a manufacturer statement) report 175 cm / 70 kg and ~32 DOF. Neither height/weight pairing could be confirmed against a Persona AI-published spec sheet during this build.",
    "A later RoboHorizon report (2025-12-31) describes a $42M pre-seed round for Persona AI's humanoid welding bot, which appears inconsistent with (or a follow-on close to) the $27M pre-seed reported in May 2025 by The Robot Report; both figures are recorded here as a discrepancy rather than resolved. See https://robohorizon.com/en-us/news/2025/12/persona-ai-unveils-humanoid-bot-with-42m-to-weld-in-shipyards/ (accessed 2026-09-20).",
    "No named-customer unit with an invoice, serial number, or independent unboxing was found; the HD Hyundai relationship is a signed deployment agreement/MOU with initial delivery 'expected' within 18 months of May 2025, not a completed shipment. delivery.status is set to 'demonstrated' on the strength of the on-site Houston welding-robot deployment (RobotAIGeek, Jul 2026), not 'shipped'.",
    "No public price has been found for Gen 1; Persona AI operates a robotics-as-a-service model without published unit pricing, so price_history is left empty.",
    "locomotion left out (2026-09-21): searched the manufacturer's own product/press page and its main launch coverage (The Robot Report / IEEE Spectrum / named outlet where applicable) for a literal quote naming the propulsion (\"bipedal\", \"legs\", \"walks\", \"wheeled base\", etc.); none of the pages fetched in this pass contained a checkable sentence naming it specifically for Gen 1 -- most pages describe height/DOF/speed without ever stating the locomotion type in words. Left out rather than inferred from photos or category. Revisit with a source that states it directly."
  ],
  "updated": "2026-09-30",
  "simulation": {
    "review": {
      "status": "not_confirmed",
      "checked": "2026-09-27",
      "urls": [
        "https://persona.ai"
      ],
      "reason": "Targeted searches found no confirmed model for this record; does not mean unavailable."
    },
    "artifacts": []
  },
  "actuator_architecture": {
    "review": {
      "status": "not_confirmed",
      "checked": "2026-09-27",
      "urls": [
        "https://persona.ai"
      ],
      "reason": "Targeted actuator searches did not confirm an exact-variant architecture claim for this record; this does not mean none exists."
    },
    "groups": []
  },
  "url": "https://humanoidrecord.com/robots/persona-ai-gen1/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "humanoidrecord.com",
  "generated_at": "2026-11-03T10:59:20.283Z"
}