{
  "slug": "sanctuary-ai-phoenix",
  "name": "Phoenix",
  "manufacturer": {
    "name": "Sanctuary AI",
    "country": "CA",
    "url": "https://sanctuary.ai"
  },
  "category": "full-size",
  "announced": {
    "date": "2023-05-16",
    "source": {
      "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-unveils-general-purpose-humanoid-robot/",
      "quote": "5'7″ (1.7 m)",
      "accessed": "2026-09-20"
    }
  },
  "specs": {
    "height_cm": {
      "value": 170,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-unveils-general-purpose-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "5'7″ (1.7 m)",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "weight_kg": {
      "value": 57.9,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-unveils-general-purpose-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "155 lbs (57.9 kg)",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "dof": {
      "value": 20,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-unveils-general-purpose-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "20 degrees of freedom",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "independent",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The reviewed source did not establish both the exact recorded value and the concrete robot variant for this specification."
        }
      }
    },
    "walking_speed_kmh": {
      "value": 4.8,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-unveils-general-purpose-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "3 mph (1,300 mm/sec)",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "payload_kg": {
      "value": 20.5,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-unveils-general-purpose-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "55 lbs (20.5 kg)",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "hand_dof": {
      "value": 21,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-integrates-tactile-sensors-into-phoenix-general-purpose-robots/",
        "quote": "21 degree-of-freedom (DoF) hand",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "independent",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The reviewed source did not establish both the exact recorded value and the concrete robot variant for this specification."
        }
      }
    },
    "tactile_skin": {
      "value": true,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-integrates-tactile-sensors-into-phoenix-general-purpose-robots/",
        "quote": "a seven-cell touch sensor with micro-barometers",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "independent",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The reviewed source did not establish both the exact recorded value and the concrete robot variant for this specification."
        }
      }
    },
    "locomotion": {
      "value": "bipedal",
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-unveils-general-purpose-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "The Phoenix model is the sixth generation of the platform and is the first robot model to be complete with legs and worthy of being characterized as a 'humanoid' bipedal robotic system.",
        "accessed": "2026-09-21"
      }
    }
  },
  "order_type": {
    "value": "quote",
    "status": "claimed",
    "source": {
      "url": "https://sanctuary.ai/contact",
      "quote": "Contact us to get in touch with a member of our commercial team.",
      "accessed": "2026-09-21"
    },
    "note": "Sanctuary AI does not list a price or checkout for Phoenix; acquisition goes through a commercial-team contact form (fields include 'Hardware of Interest' and 'Anticipated Robot Fleet Size'), consistent with an enterprise sales-conversation model rather than direct purchase."
  },
  "price_history": [],
  "delivery": {
    "status": "demonstrated",
    "timeline": [
      {
        "date": "2023-05-16",
        "event": "announced",
        "detail": "Sanctuary AI unveiled Phoenix, its sixth-generation general-purpose humanoid robot and first bipedal model.",
        "quantity_min": null,
        "quantity_max": null,
        "source": {
          "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-unveils-general-purpose-humanoid-robot/",
          "quote": "5'7″ (1.7 m)",
          "accessed": "2026-09-20"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "id": "teleoperation-shown",
      "status": "claimed",
      "autonomy": "teleoperated",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/sanctuary-ai-integrates-tactile-sensors-into-phoenix-general-purpose-robots/",
        "quote": "the primary use case for our touch sensors is to speed up teleoperation activity",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "independent",
        "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": "CEO James Wells describing teleoperation (with tactile feedback) as Sanctuary's recognized method for both remote task execution and capturing imitation-learning training data via Carbon; a general company statement rather than one specific demonstrated session, hence status 'claimed' not 'demonstrated'."
    }
  ],
  "notes": [
    "Sanctuary AI has run pilot programs with automotive supplier Magna International, but no source with a named customer plus invoice/serial-number/unboxing evidence was found during this build, so delivery.status is recorded as 'demonstrated', not 'shipped'.",
    "No battery runtime figure was found in the announcement source; the field is omitted rather than guessed.",
    "Phoenix is not sold as a commercial product with public pricing (deployed via partnerships), so price_history is empty rather than populated with a guess."
  ],
  "updated": "2026-09-21",
  "simulation": {
    "review": {
      "status": "not_confirmed",
      "checked": "2026-09-27",
      "urls": [
        "https://sanctuary.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://sanctuary.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/sanctuary-ai-phoenix/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "humanoidrecord.com",
  "generated_at": "2026-11-03T10:59:20.283Z"
}