Persona AI, Inc. Persona Gen 1
Category: industrial · Manufacturer: Persona AI, Inc. (US) · Announced: 2025-05-171 · Delivery status: demonstrated
Height to scale. Width is schematic, derived from weight; not a measured body width.
Specs
| Field | Value | Status | Quote | Accessed | Archive |
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| No sourced specification published. See methodology. | |||||
Price history
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| No price history recorded. | |||
Delivery timeline
| Date | Event | Detail | Quantity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-17 | announced | 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.1 | — |
| 2026-07-13 | first-demo | 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 2027.2 | — |
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.
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humanoidrecord.com. (2026). Persona AI, Inc. Persona Gen 1. Retrieved 2026-09-20 from https://humanoidrecord.com/robots/persona-ai-gen1/
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