GlossaryHumanoid robots & hardware
Humanoid robot
A humanoid robot is a general-purpose robot with a bipedal, human-scale form factor, designed to operate in environments built for humans without modification. The defining property is generality of form, not generality of intelligence. An industrial robot arm with a single anthropomorphic feature is not a humanoid in DEPLOY's classification; a bipedal robot like Apollo, Figure 03, Atlas, or Digit is.
Wheeled general-purpose robots are tracked separately; the form factor field on each model record carries the precise classification.
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