Persona AI, Inc. Persona Gen 1

Category: industrial · Manufacturer: Persona AI, Inc. (US) · Announced: 2025-05-17³

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· Delivery status: Recorded demonstrated

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175 cmhuman

no sourced heightPersona AI, Inc. Persona Gen 1

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Specs

Specs table
Field	Value	Status	Quote	Accessed	Archive
No sourced specification published. See methodology.

Power, software and buying

Power, software and buying table
Field	Status	Value	Quote	Accessed
Actuator torque (Nm)	—		—	—
Battery (Wh)	—		—	—
Battery swappable	—		—	—
Charge time (min)	—		—	—
Locomotion	—		—	—
SDK	—		—	—
Warranty	—		—	—
Order type		quote required⁴	“Learn how the Persona Humanoid Leasing Program includes the AI platform, autonomous API updates, custom tooling modules, and comprehensive fleet management training.” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-21

Safety and control

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Safety documentation status
Field	Review status	Evidence
Emergency stop	Not yet reviewed	No source reviewed
Motion limits	Not yet reviewed	No source reviewed
Operator logging	Not yet reviewed	No source reviewed

Reported control modes

These modes apply only to the sourced capabilities listed here, not to the robot as a whole.

Teleoperation shown: reported teleoperated¹
Tool use: reported teleoperated²

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Simulation

No simulation artifact confirmed in targeted search

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Search checked: 2026-09-27
Search result: Targeted searches found no confirmed model for this record; does not mean unavailable.

Searched source 1

Actuator architecture

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Search checked: 2026-09-27
Search result: Targeted actuator searches did not confirm an exact-variant architecture claim for this record; this does not mean none exists.

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What it has been seen doing

Capabilities table
Capability	Recorded status	Reported autonomy	Source review
Teleoperation shown	recorded demonstrated	reported teleoperated	“our human operators guide the robot through dexterous tasks in real time”¹ Needs review The reviewed source does not provide enough evidence for this specific claim. 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. Checked 2026-09-27 Review method Text review Media type Article Publisher relation Official source (published by the subject or manufacturer)
Tool use	recorded demonstrated	reported teleoperated	“strike a lit torch, maintain a steady arc, and successfully lay down a weld path”² Needs review The reviewed source does not provide enough evidence for this specific claim. 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. Checked 2026-09-27 Review method Text review Media type Article Publisher relation Official source (published by the subject or manufacturer)

Results under fixed rules

Results table
Event	Date	Discipline	Result	Rank	Autonomy	Source
No competition results under a fixed ruleset recorded yet.

Price history

Price history table
Date	Amount	Variant	Status
No price history recorded.

Recorded delivery timeline

claimed → demonstrated
demonstrated
first delivery recorded

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.⁵
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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 2027.⁶
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Promises

Promises table
Promise	Made on	Deadline	Days	Status	Source
Prototype humanoid welding robots completed by end of 2026	2025-05-07	2026-12-31	58 days left	open	PR Newswire, HD Hyundai / Persona AI
Field testing and full commercial deployment at shipyards	2025-05-07	2027-12-31	423 days left	open	PR Newswire, HD Hyundai / Persona AI

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.

Record history

Persona AI, Inc. Persona Gen 1: locomotion removed: source did not support value (was bipedal) ^source
Persona AI, Inc. Persona Gen 1: locomotion added: bipedal (demonstrated) ^source
Persona AI, Inc. Persona Gen 1: capability "teleoperation-shown" added (demonstrated, teleoperated) ^source
Persona AI, Inc. Persona Gen 1: capability "tool-use" added (demonstrated, teleoperated) ^source

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