Muks Robotics SPACEO M1

What it's for

The SPACEO M1 is a 162.5 cm humanoid from the Indian manufacturer Muks Robotics, presented as an interactive guide and companion. The robot weighs 45 kg, has 12 degrees of freedom (DOF) and moves at up to 1.5 m/s, and its 1,152 Wh battery lasts about 8 hours of work according to the manufacturer. For "seeing" it uses a 5 MP RGB camera, an Intel RealSense depth (RGB-D) camera, a 2D LiDAR and a four-element microphone array for speech recognition. For "thinking" it relies on its own FusionMax model, described as a vision-audio-language-action model. The base version runs an AMD Ryzen 7 with 16 GB of RAM; the high-end configuration uses an Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin (about 275 TOPS) or an RTX 5070. The applications listed are retail, reception and entertainment: a store, a hotel lobby, trade fairs, an entertainment center. A VLA model is the way the robot combines vision, speech and action; more in “VLA Models: How AI Controls Humanoid Robots in 2026”. How such a design works is explained in “How Does a Humanoid Robot Work”, and the concept of DOF in “Degrees of Freedom (DOF) in Humanoid Robots”. Industries: retail, hotels, events; category: “Service robots”.

Who it's for

The SPACEO M1 is for those who want to see what India's answer to service humanoids looks like: innovation departments, museums, universities, event organizers, and companies looking for a robot to interact with guests that can negotiate a project directly with the manufacturer.

It is not a product for a Polish store that needs on-site service and a warranty: there is no confirmed distributor in Poland or in Europe. Nor is it suited to someone comparing prices in a catalog: the price is not published, and the detailed specification is incomplete. Before any conversation, see how to read manufacturer data in “How to Read a Robot Datasheet”. If you want a humanoid for education, take a look at “Educational Robots for Schools and Universities”.

Deployments

Muks Robotics appears to be focused on the Indian and Asian markets. For comparison, the ARI from PAL Robotics works as a robot for human interaction and reception, and Pepper, for years the most popular reception robot, was built in about 27,000 units. Wider background is in “Service Robots in Restaurants and Hotels”.

In the social and service robot class there are proven options today that have distribution in Europe. The PAL Robotics ARI from PAL Robotics is a 165 cm robot that speaks more than 20 languages, designed for human interaction and reception; price on request. The PAL Robotics TIAGo is a wheeled mobile manipulation robot with a 7-DOF arm, aimed more at research than reception. The Pepper was discontinued in 2024 after about 27,000 units, a good reference point for the secondary market. The Richtech ADAM is a bartending arm, for food-service venues. And if you are looking for the cheapest humanoid, the Noetix Bumi costs about USD 1,400 (about PLN 5,427 (≈ EUR 1,240 at NBP rate 4.3641 of 21 October 2026)), but it is a 94 cm children's robot, not a receptionist.

Muks Robotics gives neither a founding year, a headquarters location nor a team size. What is known is that the company is building the SPACEO family of social and service humanoids (the M1, PRO and PRIME models) on its own FusionMax model, and that the M1 is listed as available to buy. The launch date of the M1 is unknown, and there are no recorded milestones for this model. So we do not build a chronology that no source can support. It is worth knowing that in this segment companies often show robots at trade fairs long before sales begin, so "on sale" status here means the manufacturer's claim, not confirmed deliveries to customers.