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Humanoids & Bimanual Mobile

Generalist robots,
as a service.

Humanoid and bimanual mobile platforms for manufacturers: deployed, supported, and continuously upgraded under Formic Full Service. Fixed monthly price, no CapEx, and no need to become a robotics R&D shop.

Humanoid platform · pilot cell
01 / Why Now

General-purpose robotics is finally real.

For decades, general-task automation was the perpetual "five years away" of manufacturing. That changed. Bimanual mobile robots are running production cycles in pilot programs at real manufacturing facilities today. Humanoid platforms are close behind — moving out of the lab and into narrowly-scoped customer pilots.

Formic is the deployment partner for mid-market manufacturers who want frontier capability without building a robotics team themselves.

  • Pilots designed and run by Formic engineers
  • Same Full Service model, fixed monthly price, no CapEx, all support included
  • Continuous OTA upgrades as capability matures
Formic humanoid robot running a pilot task on a manufacturing lineFrontier · pilot
Formic-branded white KUKA arm with Formic Production Intelligence cabling, frontier hardware running under the same Full Service stackFrontier hardware
02 / Mobile Bimanual

Two arms, one base, anywhere on the line.

Bimanual mobile robots handle multi-step manipulation tasks (bin picking, machine tending, kitting, and assist work) and relocate between cells without a fixed footprint. Most useful where the work is too varied for fixed automation but too repetitive for skilled labor.

  • Bimanual manipulation for two-handed tasks
  • SLAM-based navigation, no fixed track required
  • Task-level instruction via demonstration, not g-code
  • Designed for safe, shared-space operation alongside human teams

Operators show the robot, not program it.

03 / Humanoid Pilots

Pilot today. Scale tomorrow.

We're running humanoid pilots with select customers across 2026–2027. Pilots are scoped narrowly (one task, one cell, one shift) and expanded only when the platform proves out economics.

Pilots are priced under the same Full Service monthly model: no capital at risk if the platform doesn't prove out.

Discuss a pilot →
Humanoid robot running a Formic pilot — scoped to one task and one cellHumanoid · pilot
What's Included

One monthly fee. Everything included.

→Initial data collection & model training
→Platform deployment and commissioning
→Model fine-tuning as requirements change
→24/7 monitoring, support, and teleoperation intervention as necessary
→OTA capability upgrades
→All maintenance and parts
→Early access to upcoming features
→Performance SLAs

Frontier capability,
fully managed.

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