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Successor to IIT's iCub research platform for ergonomic human-robot collaboration in industry; spun off a commercial venture, Generative Bionics, in 2024.
Legacy mentions are unverified. A partnership or announcement is not proof of an active deployment. Evidence labels do not change HMX v2 scoring.
INAIL industrial ergonomics collaboration trials
pilot · vendor-claimed
Customer: INAIL · Italy
Collaborative industrial humanoid developed jointly by IIT and INAIL to reduce physical risk and prevent musculoskeletal injuries in manufacturing and logistics.
Evidence is attached to each value. Robot-wide source links do not verify every field. A source about an older value cannot support the current specification.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
Declared shared origins are grouped. Distinct domains and unclassified origins do not establish independent evidence.
No field-specific evidence recorded. This value is unverified at field level.
ergoCub is a humanoid robot from Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy, and it is a research platform. It scores 43.1 on the Humanoid Metric, ranking 100th of 169.
On the leaderboard it sits between Booster K2 (HMX 43.2) and KIT High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab ARMAR-DE (HMX 42.8).
Against the 169 humanoid robots ranked, its clearest strength is hardware & engineering (81.2 against a median of 56.9) and its clearest weakness is commercial readiness & deployment (15.0 against 67.0).
By the published specifications, it has more degrees of freedom than 85% of the 132 other humanoid robots publishing a degree-of-freedom count (54).
On autonomy, it has demonstrated autonomy under human supervision, not unsupervised work. It has 1 deployment with evidence (1 vendor claimed).
Its specifications carry a medium-confidence grade from 3 cited sources, as of 2026-07.
Task capability is not inferred from hardware specifications or general autonomy labels. Find robots for a task →
No task-specific evidence recorded. Capability remains unknown.
Machine-readable: HIS Layer 0 manifest at /robot/iit-ergocub/manifest.json, with a free API key · what's this?
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia has not published a price for the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia ergoCub, and none is estimated here.
Published specifications: payload 10 kg, degrees of freedom 54, degrees of freedom per hand 9, height 150 cm, weight 55.7 kg. Not published: speed and runtime.
The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia ergoCub has demonstrated autonomy under human supervision, not unsupervised work. The grade reflects demonstrations, not marketing claims.
On the HMX, the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia ergoCub scores 43.1 and the Booster K2 43.2. The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia ergoCub leads on manipulation & dexterity and hardware & engineering; the Booster K2 leads on autonomy & intelligence and commercial readiness & deployment.
The Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia ergoCub is made by Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, in Italy.
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