Phoenix

Canonical robot record

Overview

Phoenix is a general-purpose humanoid robot from Sanctuary AI, a robotics and physical-AI company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. The robot is designed to take on a broad range of work tasks by combining a human-scale body with dexterous hands intended to rival human hand dexterity and fine manipulation, supported by proprietary haptic technology meant to mimic the sense of touch.

Phoenix is controlled by Sanctuary AI's Carbon system, an AI control software designed to mimic subsystems found in the human brain such as memory, sight, sound, and touch. Sanctuary frames Carbon as providing reasoning, task, and motion planning that is intended to be explainable and auditable, allowing the robot to reason about and then act on work tasks.

The platform has progressed through multiple hardware generations. Sanctuary's most recent official positioning describes its newest generation as optimized for high-quality, high-fidelity data capture to train its AI control system, indicating the robot is primarily in a development and data-collection phase rather than broad commercial shipping.

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