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MenteeBot V1
Mentee Robotics
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- Height
- 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
- Payload
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- Verified autonomy
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- Real deployment
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MenteeBot V1
Mentee RoboticsMenteeBot V1/V3 is a full-size humanoid robot (175 cm, ~70 kg) developed by Mentee Robotics (Herzliya, Israel; founded 2022), targeting warehouse logistics and household tasks. The company has raised over $40M, employs ~70 people, and is being acquired by Mobileye for $900M (expected Q1 2026). Key technical claims include onboard NVIDIA dual Jetson Orin AGX processing, 360° vision, 25 kg payload, 40–55 DOF, hot-swappable batteries, and a proprietary Real2Sim2Real training pipeline enabling single-demo task learning. All autonomy claims originate from the vendor or vendor-aligned sources; no independent teardown or third-party verification of autonomous operation has been identified in the supplied facts.
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Specification
- robot_height
- 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
- robot_weight
- ~70 kg (~154 lbs)
- payload_capacity
- 25 kg (V3); earlier prototype spec cited 55 lbs (~25 kg)
- degrees_of_freedom
- 40–55 DOF
- max_walking_speed
- 1.5 m/s
- battery
- Hot-swappable battery; >3 hours per charge (~300 minutes); enables 24/7 operation via swapping
Price
No public price — contact the supplier for a quote.
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Evidence-graded claims from the Mentee Robotics deep report
Mobileye agreed to acquire Mentee Robotics for approximately $900 million ($612M cash + up to ~26.2M Class A Mobileye shares), announced at CES 2026 on January 6, 2026.
Independently confirmed by Bloomberg [7], TechCrunch [5], Yahoo Finance [9], Robotics 24/7 [12], and The Robot Report [6], all citing the definitive agreement with consistent financial terms; deal governance details (Shashua recusal) further corroborated by TechCrunch [5].
from Mentee Robotics deep report →
The V3 humanoid robot delivers 3x power and precision versus the prior generation and features 360° vision and a swappable battery.
These hardware specifications originate solely from Mentee's own official news page [3] (V3 launch, Feb 2025); no independent teardown, benchmark, or third-party review corroborates the 3x performance claim.
from Mentee Robotics deep report →Mentee Robotics' current models operate at approximately 50% of human efficiency in complex tasks.
TTNews [8], an independent commerce source, reports this figure, lending it credibility over vendor claims, but the underlying methodology or test conditions for the 50% benchmark are not disclosed or independently verified.
from Mentee Robotics deep report →The Real2Sim2Real pipeline enables the robot to learn from human demonstrations and generalize to new environments, forming the core of Mentee's AI-first approach.
The pipeline is described in Shashua's LinkedIn post [11] and the Mobileye press release [10] — both company-affiliated sources — with no independent technical evaluation or peer-reviewed validation of its generalization claims.
from Mentee Robotics deep report →The MenteeBot V3 is priced at approximately $150,000 per unit with an estimated 10-year ROI horizon, targeting industrial customers.
TTNews [8] reports these figures as an independent commerce source, but no customer contracts, purchase orders, or independent pricing analyses have been disclosed to substantiate real-world commercial viability at this price point.
from Mentee Robotics deep report →Safety verification and regulatory readiness form a core strategy for Mentee/Mobileye's path to commercial viability at scale.
The Robot Report [6] cites this as part of the combined Mobileye-Mentee strategy, but no regulatory filings, certifications, or independent safety assessments have been disclosed to confirm progress toward this goal.
from Mentee Robotics deep report →
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