Clone Robotics Describes Clone Alpha as a Musculoskeletal Android
Clone Robotics offers a humanoid it calls simply "Clone", which its website describes as "a bipedal android companion. Made for individuals and businesses alike." The same site calls its machines "Musculoskeletal, intelligent androids" and labels the current model the "Alpha edition". Visitors see "Reserve" buttons that link to a pre-order page, plus a copyright line covering 2021 through 2026.
According to Maginative, Clone Robotics is a Polish company founded in 2021. Its team is based in Wroclaw and includes chief technology officer (CTO) Lukasz Kozlik. The Clone Robotics site also carries a 2023 news item about a robotic hand, which sits outside the scope of this profile.
Clone Robotics supplies the name, the positioning and the Reserve button. The press supplies every design number on this page.
What the Clone Robotics Homepage Leaves Out
The Clone Robotics homepage gives no Alpha specifications, no price and no delivery dates. On the pages we checked, Clone Robotics also does not publish a height, a weight or a degrees-of-freedom count for Clone Alpha.
Maginative frames the muscle performance numbers as claims made by Clone Robotics. It also notes that Clone Robotics had yet to show Clone Alpha in action at the time of its report.
- Published by Clone Robotics: the product name Clone, the Alpha edition label, the bipedal android companion wording, and Reserve buttons linking to a pre-order page.
- Reported by Maginative: the Polish origin, the 2021 founding, the Wroclaw team, the Myofiber muscles, the skeleton with 206 bone analogues, the 500-watt pump, the sensors and the graphics processing unit (GPU).
- Reported by the press and absent from the homepage: preorders for the first 279 units.
- Unpublished on the pages we checked: price, delivery date, dimensions and weight.
Myofiber Muscles Work More Like Hydraulics Than Motors
Maginative reports that Clone Alpha is built around artificial muscles called Myofiber, which contract using water pressure and attach to a polymer skeleton. That arrangement makes the design work more like a hydraulic system than conventional electric motors.
The reported skeleton has 206 bone analogues. Maginative also reports a hydraulic "vascular system" powered by a compact 500-watt pump.
Clone Robotics claims the muscles can contract 30% in under 50 milliseconds and generate a kilogram of force from three grams of material. Treat both figures as manufacturer claims until Clone Robotics shows them on a working robot.
Clone Robotics does not answer either question on its homepage.
Reported Sensors Feed an NVIDIA Jetson Thor Running Cybernet
Maginative reports a sensor set of 4 depth cameras, 70 inertial sensors and 320 pressure sensors.
The 70 inertial sensors give joint-level feedback, and the 320 pressure sensors give feedback on muscle force. All of that data feeds an NVIDIA Jetson Thor GPU running a model Clone Robotics calls Cybernet.
The Clone Robotics homepage gives no Alpha specifications, so it lists none of these sensor counts. If sensing matters for your use, treat the joint and muscle-force sensor numbers as reported figures until Clone Robotics publishes its own.
Clone Alpha Preorder Terms Are Missing from the Clone Robotics Homepage
Press coverage reported that Clone Robotics was accepting preorders for the first 279 units of Clone Alpha. The homepage confirms only that Reserve buttons exist and link to a pre-order page. It does not state the 279-unit count, a delivery date or a price.
Third-party robot databases list a price figure for Clone Alpha. See our pricing page.
Skip a Clone Alpha reservation for now if you need a known price, a delivery date or a demonstrated robot before committing money. Our answer changes once Clone Robotics publishes a price and delivery date on its own site and shows Clone Alpha in action.
- What payment, if any, does a Clone Alpha reservation require?
- When does Clone Robotics expect to deliver the first units?
- Does Clone Robotics itself confirm the 279-unit preorder count?
- How were the 30% contraction and kilogram-of-force figures measured?
- What height, weight and degrees of freedom does Clone Alpha have?
Clone Alpha Fits a Shortlist for Water-Pressure Muscle Designs
Clone Alpha belongs on your shortlist if you specifically want artificial muscles that contract with water pressure on a polymer skeleton. Clone Robotics markets it as a companion for individuals and businesses alike.
If you are new to the category, start with our humanoid robots explainer before comparing individual machines. See also home robots and the company directory.
Bottom Line
Clone Robotics publishes a product name, an Alpha edition label and Reserve buttons, and the press supplies the Myofiber design, the sensor counts and the 279-unit preorder figure. Until a price and delivery date appear on the Clone Robotics homepage, treat Clone Alpha as a reported design to follow. Read our humanoid robots explainer next, then use the humanoid robot buying guide to compare Clone Alpha with other humanoids before placing a Clone Robotics reservation.
Before you place a Clone Robotics reservation, compare Clone Alpha with other humanoids in our buying guide.
FAQs
Who is Clone Robotics?
Clone Robotics is a robot maker whose website describes its product, Clone, as a bipedal android companion for individuals and businesses alike. Maginative reports that Clone Robotics is a Polish company founded in 2021, with a Wroclaw team that includes CTO Lukasz Kozlik.
What is Clone Alpha?
Clone Alpha is the current model of Clone, labelled the "Alpha edition" on the Clone Robotics website. Clone Robotics describes its androids as musculoskeletal and intelligent, and the homepage gives no specifications for the Alpha edition.
How do Clone's artificial muscles work?
According to Maginative, Clone's Myofiber muscles contract using water pressure and attach to a polymer skeleton, so the design works more like a hydraulic system than conventional electric motors. A compact 500-watt pump powers the reported hydraulic vascular system. Clone Robotics claims the muscles contract 30% in under 50 milliseconds.
Can you buy a Clone Alpha?
The Reserve buttons on the Clone Robotics website lead to a pre-order page, but the homepage gives no delivery date. Press reports said Clone Robotics was accepting preorders for the first 279 units, a count the homepage does not confirm.
How much does Clone Alpha cost?
Clone Robotics does not publish a price for Clone Alpha on its homepage. Third-party databases list a figure, but that figure is unverified, so we do not repeat it here.