Moby
About
About Moby
Moby is Noble Machines' legged industrial robot programme, originally developed by Under Control Robotics. The March 2025 platform focused on locomotion, carrying a 27-kilogram payload while moving across grass, debris, ramps and narrow passages. That 72-kilogram configuration used a unified learned controller to adapt joint motion to terrain, disturbances and changing loads.
A single NVIDIA Jetson Orin ran the robot's actuator and sensor software, perception and model inference. NVIDIA X-Mobility supplied directional guidance, while Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim supported training and simulation-to-hardware development. Manipulation was being developed for the next generation. By June 2026, Noble was presenting Moby around material movement and adaptable industrial work, extending a programme initially centred on robust mobility toward a broader set of physical tasks.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: GTC2026 exhibition booths with crowds and varying lighting
- Control modes: Autonomous
- Multi-terrain locomotion
Demonstrated - 2025-03-18 - Under Control Robotics demonstrates Moby payload walking on rough terrain
Source - Shelf-to-tray material induction
Demonstrated - 2026-05-12 - Pick payloads from shelves, place them in a tray and move the tray aside. - environment: GTC2026 exhibition booths with crowds and varying lighting
Source - Shelf-to-cart material transfer
Demonstrated - 2026-05-12 - Move pipes and wood from a shelf onto a cart. - environment: GTC2026 exhibition booths with crowds and varying lighting
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Deployments
- Customer Site
1 unnamed Fortune Global 500 customer deployment - 2026-03-03 - Fortune Global 500 industrial customer - industrial operations - 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.
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Supply
Supply / Components
- Moby
Gemini 336l Depth Camera - Perception - Orbbec - Noble Machines’ Moby incorporates Orbbec Gemini 336L depth cameras - source: orbbec.com
Source - Moby
Embedded Compute - Compute & Control - NVIDIA - Noble Machines Moby incorporates an NVIDIA Jetson Thor development kit for onboard inference - source: nvidia.com
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Timeline
- Noble Machines receives completed strategic investment from Shimizu
2026-10-16 - Funding - 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.
Source - Under Control Robotics demonstrates Moby payload walking on rough terrain
2025-03-18 - Demonstration - 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.
Source - Under Control Robotics demonstrates Moby locomotion and push recovery
2025-03-13 - Demonstration - 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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Context
Market context
Moby is Noble Machines' general-purpose humanoid platform for industrial and hazardous environments.
- Target environment: Industrial sites, hazardous environments, structured work areas and future field-deployment settings.
- Workflow context: Humanoid navigation, manipulation, AI-assisted operation, human-environment interaction and remote or supervised work.
- Customer context: Industrial operators, hazardous-work teams and partners evaluating humanoid platforms for difficult physical tasks.
- Deployment model: Development-stage humanoid platform from Noble Machines, formerly Under Control Robotics.
- Commercial maturity: Development-stage product with public company positioning and limited deployment evidence.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on mobility, manipulation, safety, autonomy, ruggedness, service support and clearly defined customer tasks.
- Market position: Industrial-hazard humanoid lane focused on difficult work environments rather than consumer assistance or entertainment.
- Adjacent products: Apptronik Apollo, Figure 03, Sanctuary Phoenix, Agility Digit
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