on sale
Menlo Research is an open-hardware company with offices in Palo Alto, Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City and no stated headquarters. Its product is the Asimov 1, a child-sized humanoid of 120 cm and 35 kg with 25 powered joints, sold as a build-it-yourself kit including CAD files and a bill of materials for USD 20,000 with a USD 499 deposit; the order page showed batch 4 forming in October 2026.
The software stack comprises Asimov Edge, an SDK and a whole-body locomotion policy in firmware. A successor, Asimov 2, is listed as in progress. Customers are developers, research labs and universities.
Menlo Research