Phoenix
Phoenix is Sanctuary AI's general-purpose humanoid. The current eighth generation puts a torso, arms and hydraulic hands on a wheeled base. It was never sold, and it was mostly used to capture training data and for pilots such as Magna. In June 2026 Sanctuary changed strategy: it now puts its 'Physical AI' on existing industrial robot arms, keeps its hydraulic hand as a separate product in development, and appointed a new CEO. Phoenix is not a product you can get.
- Price
- Not announced Never offered for sale
- Status
- Internal onlyResearch Phoenix (Gen 8). Research and data-capture platform; in June 2026 Sanctuary shifted to selling its AI software for other companies' industrial robots
- Height
- 1.7 m
- Weight
- 70 kg
- Payload
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- Runtime
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- Top speed
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- Degrees of freedom
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- Hand DoF
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- Compute
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- Made in
- Canada
A dash means the maker has not published it. Values with a label are claims, not measurements.
Trust and legalWhat these mean
Does a remote human drive it?
Partly
Sanctuary has long used human pilots to teleoperate Phoenix for data capture; its Carbon AI is meant to take over tasks once learned.
US FCC
Not applicable
Not sold in the US. A new Canadian-built model would fall under the July 2026 FCC rule on foreign-made robots.
Status history5 dated events
- Internal only
Board chair Daniel Friedmann named CEO, replacing James Wells, under the new strategy BetaKit: Sanctuary AI appoints former MDA exec as CEO
- Internal only
Strategy shift: Sanctuary deploys its Physical AI on existing industrial robots (99.5%+ success on an auto-supplier wire-plugging task) Business Wire: Sanctuary AI expands Physical AI strategy to industrial robotics
- Internal only
Gen 8 Phoenix moves to a wheeled base, built for high-quality data capture Sanctuary AI releases new generation of AI robots for high quality data capture
- Internal only
Gen 7 Phoenix; Magna partnership to deploy and build robots in auto parts plants The Robot Report: Sanctuary AI's latest Phoenix can learn tasks in 24 hours
- Announced
Phoenix unveiled: 5'7", 155 lb, 55 lb payload, 3 mph, 20-DoF hands Sanctuary AI unveils Phoenix
PromisesLedger
- Sanctuary AI1 open
Sanctuary would deliver its Phoenix humanoid to a Magna manufacturing facility for a pilot, with Magna taking an equity stake
OpenNo public results from a Phoenix pilot at Magna. On 2026-06-17, under a new CEO, Sanctuary said it would run its AI on existing industrial robots 'rather than waiting for humanoid hardware to reach mass commercialization.' Source
Sources for specs and status
- Sanctuary AI: Gen 8 Phoenix announcement7 Jan 2025
- Sanctuary AI: expands Physical AI strategy to industrial robotics17 Jun 2026
- Forbes: Sanctuary AI built a robot body, now it's also selling a robot brain29 Aug 2026
- RoboZaps: Sanctuary AI Phoenix 2026 (Gen 8 height/weight)2026
Last updated 27 Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Send a correction.