Humanoid robots
in Italy.

8 platforms built here, from 3 companies and labs. Italy is part of a global market of 174 humanoids across 17 countries.

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iCub

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Open-source child-sized humanoid for embodied cognition research, with sensorized full-body skin and 9 DoF per hand.

In customer trials

RoBee

Oversonic Robotics

First Italian commercial cognitive humanoid certified for industrial and healthcare environments, with bimanual manipulation and modular gri…

Lab

GENE.01

Generative Bionics

IIT spin-off building a 'Made in Italy' humanoid with full-body tactile sensing and AMD compute, debuted at CES 2026.

Lab

(unnamed first humanoid)

Generative Bionics

IIT-spinout building 'Made in Italy' Physical AI humanoids, backed by EUR 70M from CDP Venture Capital, AMD, Eni and Tether.

Lab

R1

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Wheeled mobile humanoid with extensible torso (1.15-1.45m), designed as a service robot platform with two arms and RGBD perception.

Lab

ergoCub

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Bipedal evolution of iCub built for ergonomic physical human-robot collaboration, capable of human-paced walking.

Lab

COMAN

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Compliant child-sized humanoid for locomotion research, with mixed stiff and elastic joints in a titanium/aluminium structure.

Retired

WALK-MAN

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)

Disaster-response bipedal humanoid built for the EU WALK-MAN project, with series-elastic actuators and 10 kg/arm payload.