HD Hyundai / HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering joint development agreement
unknown · unverified
- No deployment-specific evidence recorded.
🇺🇸 Persona Gen 1
Persona AI · USA · unveiled 2025
prototype
teleoperated
electric
data confidence: medium
Watch changes · Evidence history and cited research export (API access) · Plan a pilot
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 25%40.0
Manipulation & Dexterity · 20%64.0
Mobility & Locomotion · 15%0.0
Hardware & Engineering · 15%69.5
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 15%38.0
Ecosystem & Viability · 10%2.7
Each pillar is scored 0–100 from published specs, then weighted into the HMX. Compare it only with other humanoid robots — each category uses its own reference scales. See the full methodology →
Notable
Founded by NASA Valkyrie and former Figure AI veterans to build heavy-duty welding humanoids for shipyards; Gen 1 is explicitly teleoperated to collect training data toward future autonomy.
Deployment evidence
Legacy mentions are unverified. A partnership or announcement is not proof of an active deployment. Evidence labels do not change HMX v2 scoring.
Steel-fabrication pilot in Louisiana
unknown · unverified
- No deployment-specific evidence recorded.
Specifications
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.
Height
175.0 cm
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Weight
70.0 kg
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Payload
20.0 kg
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Travel speed
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Runtime
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Battery
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Total DoF
32 DoF
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Hand DoF per hand
10 DoF
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Dexterous hands
Yes
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Actuation
electric
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Form factor
bipedal
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Onboard compute
NVIDIA Jetson Thor-class
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
AI model
Teleoperation-collected welding data training an AI 'brain'; dexterous-hand tech adapted from NASA Robonaut 2
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Autonomy
teleoperated
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Product status
prototype
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Indicative price
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Funding
27.0 USD million
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Company valuation
Undisclosed
unverified · 0 evidence records
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.
Persona Gen 1 in context: rank, rivals and specs
Compare with KIT High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab ARMAR-6 →Gen 1 is a humanoid robot from Persona in USA, and it is at the prototype stage. It scores 39.2 on the Humanoid Metric, ranking 121st of 169.
On the leaderboard it sits between KIT High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab ARMAR-6 (HMX 39.2) and Andromeda Abi (HMX 38.7).
Against the 169 humanoid robots ranked, its clearest strength is manipulation & dexterity (64.0 against a median of 40.0) and its clearest weakness is autonomy & intelligence (40.0 against 70.0).
By the published specifications, it carries more payload than 75% of the 106 other humanoid robots publishing a payload (20 kg).
On autonomy, it is remotely operated in its public demonstrations, which the index caps low however capable the hardware. 2 deployment claims are on record, none yet backed by a customer, the press or the vendor.
Its specifications carry a medium-confidence grade from 3 cited sources, as of 2026-07.
Task evidence
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.
Sources · robot-level references, as of 2026-07
- https://www.therobotreport.com/persona-ai-raises-27m-develops-purpose-built-humanoid-robots-shipyards/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hd-hyundai-and-persona-ai-sign-agreement-to-deploy-humanoid-welding-robots-for-shipbuilding-automation-302449258.html
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/persona-ai-radford-pratt/particle-1
Machine-readable: HIS Layer 0 manifest at /robot/persona-ai-gen1/manifest.json, with a free API key · what's this?
Frequently asked questions about the Persona Gen 1
How much does the Persona Gen 1 cost?
Persona has not published a price for the Persona Gen 1, and none is estimated here.
What are the Persona Gen 1's specs?
Published specifications: payload 20 kg, degrees of freedom 32, degrees of freedom per hand 10, height 175 cm, weight 70 kg. Not published: speed and runtime.
Is the Persona Gen 1 autonomous?
The Persona Gen 1 is remotely operated in its public demonstrations, which the index caps low however capable the hardware. The grade reflects demonstrations, not marketing claims.
How does the Persona Gen 1 compare to the KIT High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab ARMAR-6?
On the HMX, the Persona Gen 1 scores 39.2 and the KIT High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab ARMAR-6 39.2. The Persona Gen 1 leads on manipulation & dexterity, hardware & engineering, commercial readiness & deployment and ecosystem & viability; the KIT High Performance Humanoid Technologies Lab ARMAR-6 leads on autonomy & intelligence.
Who makes the Persona Gen 1?
The Persona Gen 1 is made by Persona, in USA.
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Version history · 3 versions
Full history →Nothing is deleted: every version of this record is kept, with what changed in each.
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Version 378 · 18 Sep 2026, 02:01 UTC · score then 39.2
- hand dof per hand: — → 10
- onboard compute: — → NVIDIA Jetson Thor-class
- payload (kg): — → 20
- total dof: — → 32
- weight (kg): 85 → 70
Changed by a direct correction or a scoring update, not a research proposal. -
Version 251 · 15 Sep 2026, 04:28 UTC · score then 34.8No field changed; the score was recalculated.Changed by: Update Gen 1 (confirmed: onboard_compute, weight_kg, payload_kg, total_dof, hand_dof_per_hand) (research agent)
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First recorded version · 6 Sep 2026, 05:24 UTC · score then 34.8The record as it stood when full copies began to be kept.
Data confidence: medium. Some figures for this robot rest on single or conflicting sources, or on manufacturer/aggregator material rather than independent reporting. Treat second-order specs as approximate. Fields marked “—” were genuinely undisclosed and left blank rather than estimated.