Devanthro Robody

What it's for

Robody is not a robot that does the job for a person on its own; it is a body a person steps into from a distance. The Munich company Devanthro has built a teleoperated humanoid avatar: the pilot sits in VR goggles, sees the world through the robot's eyes (a stereoscopic RGB+Depth camera) and feels contact through haptic feedback. The robot repeats their movements with both hands.

The manufacturer lists tasks such as help with shopping, handing over medication, companionship and small household chores. This is the space of elder care and home help more broadly (homes), not the factory floor. The pilot can be in an entirely different place from the person the robot is helping.

The soft, flexible “skin” is meant to make accidental contact with a person safe, which is crucial when the robot works right next to an elderly person. Computing runs through a combination of edge processing and the cloud, and the company plans for AI, trained on data from teleoperation sessions, to gradually take over routine tasks. That path from human pilot to autonomy is one of the more important threads in the industry today; how the models meant to make it possible work is described in our text on “VLA Models: How AI Controls Humanoid Robots in 2026”.

The manufacturer does not give height, weight, degrees of freedom or payload, so it is impossible to judge honestly what loads or reaches Robody suits. If you want to understand why the number of axes matters here, see the article on “Degrees of Freedom (DOF) in Humanoid Robots”. For the wider context of the whole group, see the category “Home robots”.

Who it's for

Worth considering for: market watchers, research teams and care-sector companies who want to understand the “human in the loop” model, teleoperation as a bridge to autonomy. Also those following how robotics is being shaped for aging societies, since that is what Devanthro is aiming at.

Probably not for: anyone looking for a robot to buy. Robody is in a pilot phase, not in series sales, has no public price or price list and is not available in Poland. Also not companies that expect full autonomy: for now, complex tasks depend on the pilot. Nor homes where a predictable cost matters to you, because the unit economics have not been disclosed.

If you are thinking about a home robot that already has a clear status and price, start with the overview in the category “Home robots”, where you will find devices such as the ElliQ or the Moxie, though those are a completely different class: companions, not hands.

Deployments

Robody is in a pilot phase and is not offered here, and there is no data on trials in Polish care homes or hospitals.

What exists in the category? Worldwide, robots with similar tasks exist mainly as companions, like the ElliQ, or as remotely controlled systems in medicine, like the da Vinci 5. To read about how robotics is entering Polish hospitals, see “da Vinci Robots in Polish Hospitals”. Against those solutions, Robody remains an attempt to build universal hands in the home, still waiting for hard evidence from real facilities.

Robody has no direct counterpart with an open specification today, but depending on your goal, a few leads are worth a look.

ElliQ: for senior companionship, ELLI·Q does it without hands and without a pilot; it is an active companion that suggests conversation, movement or medication reminders. A simpler concept, but it will not bring anything from the kitchen.

Pedia_Roid: a design from the area of remote work and contact with people, showing that the idea of telepresence has a longer history in robotics than the current wave of humanoids.

da Vinci 5: a radically different case of teleoperation, in which a surgeon controls the arms from a console. It proves that work at a distance can be a mature product when the task is narrow and well defined.

Versius: another remotely controlled surgical system; it shows what teleoperation looks like with full documentation and certification, which is what Robody still lacks.

Devanthro is a Munich company, and Robody is its publicly shown avatar; the manufacturer presented it on the page “Robody unveiled”. We do not know an exact launch date or the numbers of later generations, so we do not build a timeline that the sources do not contain. We do know that the project appears in Infineon's partner materials, which points to collaboration on electronics, though the scope of that collaboration is not described in the sources.

The most important element of the “history” is a plan, not a fact: the company assumes that data from teleoperation will be used to train AI that will gradually take over simple, repetitive activities. How such learning works in practice is shown in “VLA Models: How AI Controls Humanoid Robots in 2026”, and for the context of the whole field, see “How Does a Humanoid Robot Work”.