Embodied AI

Manufactured by Embodied AI

AIR is the first humanoid robot from Embodied AI, a Swiss startup spun out of EPFL in Lausanne, and it was unveiled at Humanoid Europe 2026 in Munich on November 6, 2026. It is built to share the factory floor with people instead of working behind a safety cage. AIR has a humanlike upper body with two arms mounted on a column over a wheeled base, because factory floors are flat and wheels are more stable than legs. Its motors, gearboxes and electronics sit in the torso, and its soft, light arms are moved by tendons, so they carry almost no mass and give way on contact; each 2 kg arm can lift 5 kg. AIR takes on repetitive, high-variation manual jobs such as kitting, packaging, picking, placing and plugging parts. It starts each new job under the control of a remote human operator, so it is useful from its first shift, and Embodied AI's own AI stack learns from every recorded run until AIR can do the task on its own, typically within a month. What one robot learns can be shared with the next, and depending on the task one AIR can handle the workload of up to three people per shift.