cleaning
Parts handling and logistics at Renault Douai
Commercially deployedVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Mixed / assisted
- Human intervention
- Pilot supervision; split undisclosed
Research record R-014Pilot deployment
Calvin-40
By Wandercraft · France · announced June 2025
The headless French biped born from exoskeleton engineering, with a 350-unit Renault commitment behind it.
Broader research scope
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Research summary
What the record says.
Calvin-40 is the industrial humanoid from Wandercraft, the Paris company best known for Atalante, its self-balancing medical exoskeleton that has helped paralyzed patients walk since 2019. That balance pedigree translated directly: Calvin, unveiled in June 2025 with Renault as partner and minority investor, is a roughly 1.7 meter biped that skips the head entirely, because a warehouse robot needs balance and hands more than a face.
Renault turned the pilot into one of Europe's largest humanoid commitments in March 2026: 350 Calvin humanoids across French and Spanish plants within about 18 months, with Calvin-40 units already operational at the Douai plant and around ten robots targeted there by the end of 2026.
Calvin is not sold openly; it exists inside the Renault partnership and Wandercraft's industrial program.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Commercially deployed
Operational at Renault Douai; 350-unit commitment announced March 2026
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
1 material claim are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Commercially deployed; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
Hardware record.
- Height
- 170 cm
- Weight
- Unknown / not disclosed
- Locomotion
- Bipedal walking (headless design)
- Payload
- Industrial handling loads; figures unpublished
- Runtime
- Shift-oriented; details unpublished
- Charging
- Dock
- Top speed
- Factory walking speeds
- Degrees of freedom
- Not fully published
- Hands
- Industrial grippers
- Face / expression
- None, deliberately
- Sensors
- Vision and force sensing derived from exoskeleton stack
Software record.
- AI platform
- Wandercraft control stack; dynamic balance heritage from Atalante exoskeletons
- Voice
- None
- Languages
- Not applicable
- Visual recognition
- Industrial part recognition
- Memory
- Task models
- Processing
- Onboard
- Autonomous abilities
- Plant logistics tasks under pilot supervision
- Teleoperation
- Supported in development
- Software updates
- Fleet updates
- Developer access
- Partnership only
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Enterprise-controlled
- Remote operation possible
- Yes
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Workplace protocols
- Camera / microphone controls
- Site controlled
- Data deletion
- Contract governed
- Account required
- Enterprise
- Emergency stop
- Industrial e-stop
- Children and pets
- Not applicable (industrial)
- Security updates
- Enterprise support
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Public demonstration
Calvin unveiled with Renault partnership
- Pilot deployment
Renault commits to 350 units; Douai operations confirmed
Source register
2 linked sources.
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