cleaning
Marketing lists home tasks like laundry and sandwiches
Not demonstratedVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Not disclosed
- Human intervention
- Not applicable; capability not shown
Research record R-016Preorder
Clone Alpha
By Clone Robotics · Poland / United States · announced December 2024
A synthetic-anatomy android with a thousand artificial muscles, 279 preorder slots and, so far, demos performed hanging from a ceiling.
Broader research scope
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The main field guide selects 14 companion robots for deeper review. This entry belongs to a separate 53-record index that also covers industrial, research, and developer systems.
Research summary
What the record says.
Clone Robotics is building androids the hard way: synthetic bones, ligaments and roughly 1,000 water-hydraulic 'Myofiber' artificial muscles instead of electric motors in metal joints. Its Protoclone prototype, a faceless, twitching, anatomically humanlike figure suspended from the ceiling, became one of the most viral robot videos ever when unveiled in February 2025.
Clone Alpha is the company's planned product: a limited edition of 279 androids 'designed for the home,' announced for preorder in 2025. Third-party listings cite about $20,000 or a deposit-plus-subscription model, but the official preorder page lists no price, no date and no sold-out notice, and no shipment to any customer has been documented.
In January 2026 the company signaled a Silicon Valley move and continued to circulate new demo footage. The engineering is genuinely novel; the product remains a promise.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Not demonstrated
None; no customer unit documented
Limited run of 279 units claimed; whether slots have sold is unverifiedReality check
Every public Protoclone demonstration shows the android suspended or supported; free standing, walking or useful manipulation has not been shown. The gap between 'muscles that move like a human's' and 'a robot that works in your home' is the entire unsolved problem of robotics. Treat Clone Alpha's home-android claims as aspiration until a unit performs unsupported work in public.
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
2 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Controlled demo; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
entertainment
Viscerally lifelike anatomical movement
Controlled demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Autonomous
- Human intervention
- Suspended/supported demos
Hardware record.
- Height
- 175 cm
- Weight
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Locomotion
- Bipedal skeleton; free walking not yet demonstrated
- Payload
- Not demonstrated
- Runtime
- Not disclosed
- Charging
- Not disclosed
- Top speed
- Not applicable yet
- Degrees of freedom
- 200+ (claimed), via musculoskeletal anatomy
- Hands
- Anatomically humanlike hands with tendon muscles
- Face / expression
- Faceless in current prototypes
- Sensors
- About 500 sensors (claimed): muscle pressure, position, vision
Software record.
- AI platform
- In-house 'Cybernet' control models (company statements)
- Voice
- Planned
- Languages
- Not applicable yet
- Visual recognition
- In development
- Memory
- Not disclosed
- Processing
- Not disclosed
- Autonomous abilities
- Muscle-level control demonstrated; task autonomy not shown
- Teleoperation
- Development tool; not disclosed as product feature
- Software updates
- Not applicable
- Developer access
- Not announced
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Not disclosed
- Remote operation possible
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Not disclosed
- Camera / microphone controls
- Not disclosed
- Data deletion
- Not disclosed
- Account required
- Not disclosed
- Emergency stop
- Not disclosed
- Children and pets
- Not disclosed
- Security updates
- Not disclosed
Open questions
Disputed or unverified.
- No source confirms the 279 preorder slots have been claimed or sold
- All pricing is third-party; the official page lists none
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Concept
Clone Alpha announced: 279-unit limited edition, preorders 'in 2025'
- Prototype
Protoclone V1 goes viral: about 1,000 Myofiber muscles, suspended demo
- Preorder
New footage circulates; Silicon Valley move and $20,000 price point reported
Source register
3 linked sources.
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