THEMIS Context

Market context

THEMIS is Westwood Robotics’ full-size humanoid platform, tied to the company’s BEAR actuator and AI-augmented humanoid control work.

  • Target environment: Humanoid robotics research, development and early industrial or service demonstrations where dynamic locomotion and manipulation matter.
  • Workflow context: The platform is used as a humanoid development surface for whole-body control, actuator-driven mobility and manipulation experiments.
  • Customer context: Robotics developers, researchers and integrators evaluating humanoid hardware and control systems.
  • Deployment model: Product/development platform from Westwood Robotics with public product material and company brochure support, but limited public deployment evidence.
  • Commercial maturity: Published product surface with official THEMIS page and Westwood robotics brochure, but not a broadly deployed commercial robot.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on access to the platform, integration support, safety validation and the maturity of humanoid control/application software.
  • Market position: Positioned as an agile full-size humanoid platform from a RoMeLa-linked team rather than a logistics-specific humanoid deployment.
  • Adjacent products: Adjacent systems include other full-size humanoid platforms, research humanoids and actuator-led humanoid development kits.

Audience

Robotics labs

Workflow

The platform is used as a humanoid development surface for whole-body control, actuator-driven mobility and manipulation experiments.

Deployment environment

Humanoid robotics research, development and early industrial or service demonstrations where dynamic locomotion and manipulation matter.

Specifications

  • Weight: 32
  • Total degrees of freedom: 40
  • Height: 160
  • Arm Dof: 6
  • Max Speed Kmh: 10
  • Payload: 15
  • Architecture: compute ai tops: 200 TOPS
  • robotics sensors: stereo vision cameras, inertial measurement unit (IMU), tactile sensors
  • actuation and motion control: BEAR (Back-drivable Electromechanical Actuators for Robotics): compliant, back-drivable, liquid-cooled variants
  • Software: Humanoid OS (ROS-based); AI: perception, motion planning, LLM integration
  • Runtime: 3
  • Battery: lithium-ion, hot-swappable
  • Hand Dof: 7

Comparable Systems

  • LimX Oli - LimX Dynamics - Humanoid Platform
  • IRON - XPeng Inc. - humanoid robotics
  • Atlas - Boston Dynamics - humanoid robotics

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