Renault Group Douai plant pilot (350 units planned across ~10 European sites by 2026-2027)
unknown · unverified
- No deployment-specific evidence recorded.
🇫🇷 Wandercraft Calvin-40
Wandercraft · France · unveiled 2025
commercial
task-autonomous
electric
data confidence: high
Watch changes · Evidence history · Cited research export · Plan a pilot
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 25%97.0
Manipulation & Dexterity · 20%66.7
Mobility & Locomotion · 15%0.0
Hardware & Engineering · 15%63.3
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 15%100.0
Ecosystem & Viability · 10%17.0
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
Deliberately headless industrial humanoid with modular end-effectors; Wandercraft calls it the first humanoid developed by a European company.
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.
SAPA (Italian automotive Tier 1 supplier) manufacturing facilities
unknown · unverified
- No deployment-specific evidence recorded.
Renault Group Douai EV plant night-shift tyre handling (since February 2026)
unknown · unverified
- No deployment-specific evidence recorded.
Renault Group plans to deploy 350 units across factories in France and Spain by end-2027
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
172.0 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
80.0 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
40.0 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
16 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
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.
Dexterous hands
No
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 edge AI platform / NVIDIA RTX GPU compute
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
LLM-based reasoning
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
task-autonomous
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
commercial
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
170.0 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.
Wandercraft Calvin-40 in context: rank, rivals and specs
Compare with UBTech Walker S1 →Calvin-40 is a humanoid robot from Wandercraft in France, and it is commercially available. It scores 63.8 on the Humanoid Metric, ranking 34th of 156 — in the top quarter.
On the leaderboard it sits between UBTech Walker S1 (HMX 63.8) and RobotEra Q5 (HMX 63.4).
Against the 156 humanoid robots ranked, its clearest strength is commercial readiness & deployment (100.0 against a median of 67.0) and its clearest weakness is mobility & locomotion (0.0 against 34.8).
By the published specifications, it has fewer degrees of freedom than 95% of the 116 other humanoid robots publishing a degree-of-freedom count (16), carries more payload than 93% of the 97 other humanoid robots publishing a payload (40 kg) and is heavier than 77% of the 115 other humanoid robots publishing a weight (80 kg).
On autonomy, it has demonstrated completing tasks on its own. 4 deployment claims are on record, none yet backed by a customer, the press or the vendor.
Its specifications carry a high-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://en.wandercraft.eu/calvin-40
- https://www.therobotreport.com/wandercraft-unveils-new-industrial-humanoid-renault/
- https://insideevs.com/news/790259/renault-wandercraft-humanoid-robot-ev-factory/
Machine-readable: HIS Layer 0 manifest · what's this?
Frequently asked questions about the Wandercraft Calvin-40
How much does the Wandercraft Calvin-40 cost?
Wandercraft has not published a price for the Wandercraft Calvin-40, and none is estimated here.
What are the Wandercraft Calvin-40's specs?
Published specifications: payload 40 kg, degrees of freedom 16, height 172 cm, weight 80 kg. Not published: speed, runtime and degrees of freedom per hand.
Is the Wandercraft Calvin-40 autonomous?
The Wandercraft Calvin-40 has demonstrated completing tasks on its own. The grade reflects demonstrations, not marketing claims.
How does the Wandercraft Calvin-40 compare to the UBTech Walker S1?
On the HMX, the Wandercraft Calvin-40 scores 63.8 and the UBTech Walker S1 63.8. The Wandercraft Calvin-40 leads on autonomy & intelligence, commercial readiness & deployment and ecosystem & viability; the UBTech Walker S1 leads on manipulation & dexterity, mobility & locomotion and hardware & engineering.
Who makes the Wandercraft Calvin-40?
The Wandercraft Calvin-40 is made by Wandercraft, in France.
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Change history · 2 applied updates
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Spec update Update Calvin-40
ai_model: NVIDIA Isaac GR00T (N1 foundation model) & Physical AI / VLM → LLM-based reasoning; height_cm: 170 → 172; total_dof: 28 → 16; deployments: Renault Group Douai plant pilot (350 units planned across ~10 European sites by 2026-2027), SAPA (Italian automotive Tier 1 supplier) manufacturing facilities → Renault Group Douai plant pilot (350 units planned across ~10 European sites by 2026-2027), SAPA (Italian automotive Tier 1 supplier) manufacturing facilities, Renault Group Douai EV plant night-shift tyre handling (since February 2026), Renault Group plans to deploy 350 units across factories in France and Spain by end-20272026-09-01T22:29:24+00:00 · by agent-auto
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Spec update Update Calvin-40
status: pilot → commercial; autonomy_level: supervised-autonomy → task-autonomous; ai_model: RL 3D vision/recognition stack; balance control carried over from Wandercraft's exoskeleton platform → NVIDIA Isaac GR00T (N1 foundation model) & Physical AI / VLM; onboard_compute: — → NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform / NVIDIA RTX GPU compute; total_dof: 32 → 28; deployments: Renault Group Douai plant pilot (350 units planned across ~10 European sites by 2026-2027) → Renault Group Douai plant pilot (350 units planned across ~10 European sites by 2026-2027), SAPA (Italian automotive Tier 1 supplier) manufacturing facilities2026-08-23T01:04:57+00:00 · by agent-bulk