Humanoid Robot Available for Preorder; Walks, Talks Naturally

If a humanoid robot is on your holiday shopping list, you’re in luck! Clone is manufacturing a limited number of its new, limited edition Clone Alpha humanoid robots to be available for preorder next year. 

The Clone Alpha is different from many other humanoid robots as these androids are musculoskeletal in that they are designed with synthetic skeletal and muscular systems that enable them to replicate human-like movement and dexterity.

The humanoid robot has a Telekinesis training platform designed to help teach it new skills allowing it to do everything from memorizing the layout of a home for cleaning and kitchen inventory. It can shake hands, pour drinks, wash, dry and fold clothes, vacuum, set the table and more. It can even chat. It can also charge itself. 

With natural language interfaces, Clone said a person can speak to the humanoid in plain English, naturally as if talking to anyone. 

“Since the advent of large language models, it’s been a technological possibility to start communicating with our computers in natural language,” according to a statement on the company’s website. “As a walking, talking computer, Clone Alpha represents the next phase of human-computer interaction.”

Clone posted a video of its Torso bimanual android actuated with artificial muscles in action. Using pneumatic actuation, the company called it “the most advanced android ever created with an actuated lumbar spine and all the corresponding abdominal muscles.” Beneath the torso’s skin are 910 muscle fibers that animate the humanoid robot’s 164 degrees of freedom, along with 182 sensors for feedback control.

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The company said that legs are coming “very soon.”

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