Noble Machines

• Moby

• Customer site

  2026-03-03 - Noble Machines said it shipped and deployed its first industrial general-purpose robots to a Fortune Global 500 customer within 18 months of launch and met its first delivery milestone. - Moby / general-purpose industrial robots - Undisclosed industrial customer site

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• Praxis-1 at Noble Machines partner robot

  Evaluation - Tested With - Noble Machines tested Praxis-1 on its physical robot hardware during Runway’s pre-launch partner programme.

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Supply chain relationships

• Orbbec

  Inbound - Perception - Noble Machines’ Moby incorporates Orbbec Gemini 336L depth cameras

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• NVIDIA

  Inbound - Compute & Control - Noble Machines Moby incorporates an NVIDIA Jetson Thor development kit for onboard inference

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• NVIDIA

  Inbound - Software - Noble Machines is adopting NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N models for its humanoid programme

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• 2026-10-16 - Strategic investment - Noble Machines receives completed strategic investment from Shimizu

  Shimizu completed an investment in Noble Machines and began a development collaboration combining the startup’s humanoid hardware and software with construction-site expertise. - source: shimz.co.jp

• Shimizu Corporation - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-10-16

• Wei Ding - Co-Founder and CEO

• Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for real robots

  2026-09-30 - Research Publication - Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are testing the model on their hardware, including the Standard Bots RO1 arm. The model learns robot actions from large-scale video pretraining combined with robot interaction data. Public weights are planned in the coming months, following the pre-launch partner programme.

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Events

• 2026-10-16 - Funding - Noble Machines receives completed strategic investment from Shimizu

  The work targets physically demanding and hazardous construction tasks. Noble develops MOBY-series hardware, control systems and application software. The partners plan to combine BIM/CIM-based simulation with tests at real construction sites.

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• 2026-09-30 - Research Publication - Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for real robots

  Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are testing the model on their hardware, including the Standard Bots RO1 arm. The model learns robot actions from large-scale video pretraining combined with robot interaction data. Public weights are planned in the coming months, following the pre-launch partner programme.

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• 2026-03-12 - Demonstration - ADLINK previews Jetson Thor systems for GTC

  DLAP-701 configurations used Jetson T5000 or T4000 modules; a DeepRad.AI medical demonstration paired the platform with Phison aiDAPTIV. Noble Machines’ Moby was listed for a separate humanoid showcase using ADLINK DLAP-series computing and NVIDIA Jetson modules.

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• 2026-03-10 - Partnership - Noble Machines and Schaeffler partner on actuators and Newton simulation

  The actuator platform uses Texas Instruments chipsets, while its digital twin runs in the Newton physics engine built on NVIDIA Warp and OpenUSD. The models account for manufacturing differences, lubricant and seal aging, and the energy demands of physical hardware. The partners also describe online self-diagnosis that uses controller effort to identify wear and environmental changes and adjust robot control.

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• 2026-03-03 - Org Change - Noble Machines exits stealth and reports first industrial robot deliveries

  The first shipment and deployment occurred within 18 months of the company’s launch. ADLINK, Schaeffler and Solomon were named as industrial collaborators. Its training approach combines language instructions, demonstrations and gestures to teach physical skills.

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• 2026-03-03 - Market Signal - Noble Machines ships and deploys first humanoid robots to a Fortune Global 500 industrial customer

  Noble Machines said it shipped and deployed its first humanoid robots to a Fortune Global 500 industrial customer within 18 months of launch. The company described the robots as general-purpose industrial systems built for hazardous and physically demanding work. Noble Machines did not disclose the customer name or deployment scale in the announcement.

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• 2025-03-18 - Demonstration - Under Control Robotics demonstrates Moby payload walking on rough terrain

  The 72-kilogram robot averaged 200 watts of power consumption, with claimed endurance of five to six hours. Tests included omnidirectional walking, debris-filled floors, cross-slope movement and rejection of disturbances. The company was developing a separate next-generation robot with manipulation capability for an unveiling the following month.

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• 2025-03-13 - Demonstration - Under Control Robotics demonstrates Moby locomotion and push recovery

  The locomotion model ran on a single CPU core in an NVIDIA Jetson Orin computer, with STM32 processors in the actuator modules. The prototype could walk using an inertial measurement unit; a newer model was being developed with vision. Arms were planned for integration by the end of March 2025.

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Relationships

• ADLINK Technology

  Technology Partner - Noble Machines and ADLINK partner on ruggedized Jetson Thor edge computing for industrial robots.

• Runway

  Partner - Runway is working with Noble Machines as an early Praxis-1 partner testing the world action model on physical robot hardware.