About

About MARS

MARS is a compact wheeled mobile manipulator delivered assembled and calibrated. Its six driven arm and gripper joints provide 40 centimetres of reach, 250 grams of payload at maximum extension and stated repeatability of 2 millimetres. A moving head, stereo camera, gripper camera and 360-degree 2D LiDAR support perception and navigation, while a Jetson Orin Nano Super runs the local robot stack.

Developers can control MARS through Innate’s app, browser interface or included leader arm. The platform supports mapped and map-free navigation, code-defined manipulation and policies trained from demonstrations. Innate publishes the hardware and operating software and provides ROS 2 interfaces and a browser simulator.

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Supply / Components

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Dynamixel Servos - motion - ROBOTIS - Innate MARS uses seven ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL servos: two XL430, one XC430 and four XL330 - source: docs.innate.bot
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Jetson Orin Nano Super 8gb - Compute & Control - NVIDIA - NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super 8GB powers Innate MARS - source: docs.innate.bot
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Timeline

Innate runs 25 MARS robots at Y Combinator RoboHacks
2026-04-11 - Demonstration - Innate and Iterate co-hosted the two-day robotics hackathon at Y Combinator's San Francisco office. More than 120 builders developed projects using at least 25 general-purpose MARS robots. NASA, Google DeepMind and other technology organizations supported the event's speakers, tracks and prizes.
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Innate begins shipping MARS beta units
2025-11-20 - Product Launch - Select early supporters were receiving beta-form MARS robots by the disclosure date. Innate planned to fulfill its remaining existing orders before the 2025 Christmas period. Early units used predominantly resin and PLA components manufactured at Innate's Palo Alto office.
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Innate launches MARS personal AI robot
2025-09-05 - Product Launch - MARS combines mobile navigation, a learning-oriented arm, onboard compute and multimodal sensing. Innate opened pre-orders while positioning the system as an affordable platform for robotics builders. The BASIC agent supports programs created through code, demonstrations and natural-language prompts.
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