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THEMIS Westwood Robotics
160 cm
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THEMIS
Shipping 2026 Business
Affordable full-size US research humanoid from UCLA spin-off Westwood Robotics, sold online and able to manipulate objects while walking.
Overview
THEMIS Gen 2.5, announced in January 2026 by UCLA RoMeLa spin-off Westwood Robotics, is an upgraded version of the THEMIS V2 platform sold directly on westwoodrobotics.io for $17,990. Westwood claims it is the first commercially available humanoid to deliver dependable manipulation on the move, continuing to walk while carrying and handling objects, with 7-DoF arms each rated for more than 5 kg and 40% better impact resistance than prior versions. It runs Westwood's AI-Augmented Humanoid OS (AOS) with modules for whole-body control, semantic navigation and an object-centric vision-action model, and targets research labs, universities and developers.
Use cases
Research & development Education Light manipulation tasks
Capability evidence
- Working while walkingTHEMIS Gen 2.5 demonstrated whole-body loco-manipulation, grasping and manipulating objects while in motion via sensor-fusion state estimation. Interesting Engineering ↗ · 2026-01
- THEMIS V2 unveilWestwood unveiled the 1.6 m, 40-DoF THEMIS V2 with 7-DoF end-effectors and up to 200 TOPS onboard AI compute. TechEBlog ↗ · 2025-04
- Live expo demosGave live dynamic locomotion and precise manipulation demonstrations at the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston. Robotics Summit & Expo ↗ · 2025-04
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