Noble Machines

Noble Machines, a Sunnyvale, California startup founded in 2024 by engineers from Apple, SpaceX, NASA, and Caltech, develops general-purpose industrial humanoid robots for hazardous and physically demanding work. Its flagship is the Moby series, designed for manufacturing, construction, logistics, energy, and semiconductor environments. Moby features a robust build with payload capacity of approximately 23–27kg, roughly 5-hour battery life, walking speed around 0.8m/s, and modular end-effectors. It navigates complex settings such as stairs, scaffolding, unstable terrain, and cluttered spaces while supporting remote teleoperation alongside autonomous modes.

The robot emphasizes AI-driven whole-body control and end-to-end autonomy powered by NVIDIA Isaac tools (including GR00T vision-language-action models, Isaac Sim, and Jetson platforms). It learns new skills rapidly through language instructions, demonstrations, and gestures, with high sim-to-real transfer. Primary uses include material handling, inspections, data capture, sorting, and routine or infrequent tasks that support human crews rather than fully replacing them. Early deployments reached Fortune Global 500 industrial customers within 18 months of founding, with units shipped for real workflows such as semiconductor material handling.

Noble Machines prioritizes rugged reliability, collaborative operation with people, and fast time-to-value in tough industrial settings. Partnerships with companies like ADLINK, Schaeffler, and Solomon support hardware, actuators, and edge computing, enabling the robots to handle dynamic payloads and adapt through experience while focusing on safer, more productive operations in high-stakes environments.