FRIDAY

Sixty-four degrees of freedom, twenty of them in each hand, set FRIDAY apart. Holiday Robotics, a start-up in Seoul's Gangnam district with an office in Mountain View, designs the robot for repetitive and physically draining industrial work as well as research use. FRIDAY stands 176 cm tall and weighs 125 kg; each arm weighs 5.5 kg and each hand under 600 g, with every finger segment rated for 5 kg.

The hand integrates tactile sensing sampled at 250 Hz and is fully back-drivable, meaning it can be pushed by external forces without damaging the drives. Maximum payload is 20 kg, top speed 1.9 m/s, and average runtime four hours, extended by hot-swappable battery packs. Training happens in the company's own Holiday Sim and a world-model AI.

The maker does not say whether FRIDAY walks on legs or drives on wheels, so the form of locomotion is undocumented; all figures come from product data embedded in the maker's web code. Status is prototype, price on request.

In axis count FRIDAY outnumbers most industrial bipeds in the catalogue, for instance Unitree H1 or Laborer M1, but without locomotion data a full comparison is not yet possible.