Sanctuary AI Phoenix

Category: full-size · Manufacturer: Sanctuary AI (CA) · Announced: 2023-05-16²

Not reviewed

The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.

· Delivery status: Recorded demonstrated

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175 cmhuman

170 cm²Sanctuary AI Phoenix

Height to scale. Width is schematic, derived from weight; not a measured body width.

Specs

Specs table
Field	Value	Status	Quote	Accessed	Archive
Height (cm)	170²	claimed	“5'7″ (1.7 m)” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-20	—
Weight (kg)	57.9³	claimed	“155 lbs (57.9 kg)” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-20	—
Degrees of freedom	20⁴	claimed	“20 degrees of freedom” Needs review The reviewed source does not provide enough evidence for this specific claim. Reason The reviewed source did not establish both the exact recorded value and the concrete robot variant for this specification. Checked 2026-09-27 Review method Text review Media type Article Publisher relation Independent source	2026-09-27	—
Walking speed (km/h)	4.8⁵	claimed	“3 mph (1,300 mm/sec)” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-20	—
Payload (kg)	20.5¹	claimed	“55 lbs (20.5 kg)” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-20	—
Hand degrees of freedom	21⁶	claimed	“21 degree-of-freedom (DoF) hand” Needs review The reviewed source does not provide enough evidence for this specific claim. Reason The reviewed source did not establish both the exact recorded value and the concrete robot variant for this specification. Checked 2026-09-27 Review method Text review Media type Article Publisher relation Independent source	2026-09-27	—
Tactile skin	true⁷	claimed	“a seven-cell touch sensor with micro-barometers” Needs review The reviewed source does not provide enough evidence for this specific claim. Reason The reviewed source did not establish both the exact recorded value and the concrete robot variant for this specification. Checked 2026-09-27 Review method Text review Media type Article Publisher relation Independent source	2026-09-27	—
Locomotion	bipedal⁸	claimed	“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.” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-21	—

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		bipedal⁸	“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.” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-21
SDK	—		—	—
Warranty	—		—	—
Order type		quote required¹⁰	“Contact us to get in touch with a member of our commercial team.” Not reviewed The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.	2026-09-21

Safety and control

Not yet reviewed means Humanoidrecord has not reviewed or found documentation for this field. It does not show that a feature is absent, certify protection, or establish how the robot behaves in every setting.

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 teleoperated⁹

See the incident register for separately sourced public reports. This link does not connect this robot or model to an incident.

Simulation

No simulation artifact confirmed in targeted search

This records a searched-but-not-confirmed result. It does not mean simulation support is unavailable.

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

No actuator architecture confirmed in targeted search

This records a searched-but-not-confirmed result. It does not mean a particular architecture is absent.

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.

Searched source 1

What it has been seen doing

Capabilities table
Capability	Recorded status	Reported autonomy	Source review
Teleoperation shown	recorded claimed	reported teleoperated	“the primary use case for our touch sensors is to speed up teleoperation activity”⁹ 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 Independent source

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

Sanctuary AI unveiled Phoenix, its sixth-generation general-purpose humanoid robot and first bipedal model.²
Not reviewed
The cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim.

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.

Record history

Sanctuary AI Phoenix: locomotion added: bipedal (claimed) ^source
Sanctuary AI Phoenix: hand_dof added: 21 (claimed) ^source
Sanctuary AI Phoenix: tactile_skin added: yes (claimed) ^source
Sanctuary AI Phoenix: capability "teleoperation-shown" added (claimed, teleoperated) ^source

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