Sanctuary Phoenix
Gen 8
A hydraulic-hand teleoperation humanoid; in 2026 its maker shifted to AI software for ordinary industrial arms.
Phoenix is a human-sized upper body with hydraulic hands, mounted on a wheeled base in its eighth generation (the company said customers found legs too fragile). Sanctuary signed a strategic relationship with investor Magna in 2024-04 covering data collection in Magna plants, possible contract manufacturing and a potential purchase, but no deployment numbers have been published. In 2026-06 Sanctuary announced it would deploy its Carbon AI stack on existing industrial arms and reported 99.5% success on a wire-insertion task for an unnamed Tier 1 automotive supplier.
Our verdict
Technically distinctive hands, but the company has itself moved away from selling the humanoid. Treat Phoenix as a platform for Sanctuary's AI and teleoperation work, not as a product.
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Availability
No public price
No sales channel.
as of 2026-10 · Source
No public price
No public price; deployments by arrangement (non-recurring engineering plus hardware charges, per Sacra).
as of 2026-10 · Source
No public price
No sales channel.
as of 2026-10 · Source
Deployments
| Customer | Location | Type | Since | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magna International Strategic relationship: Magna as investor, contract manufacturer and potential customer, with a planned run to collect data in a commercial environment. Completion and unit count not documented. | Magna manufacturing facilities | Agreement | Apr 2024 | therobotreport.com |
Timeline
Phoenix Gen 7 announced; strategic relationship with Magna announced (2024-04-11).
Gen 8 released with wheeled base and miniaturised hydraulic hands (some sources say 2025-01).
Sanctuary reports 99.5%+ success at 2.54 s cycle on wire plugging for an unnamed Tier 1 automotive supplier and shifts to a hardware-agnostic approach on existing industrial robots.
Specs
- Degrees of freedom
- 21 per hand (sources vary 20-21) DoF (hands only)
Manufacturer claim
Sources
- Sanctuary AI validates physical AI performance at Tier 1 automotive supplier The Robot Report · Oct 31, 2026
- Sanctuary AI enters strategic relationship with Magna The Robot Report · Oct 31, 2026
- Sanctuary AI Sacra · Oct 31, 2026
- Sanctuary AI StartupHub.ai · Oct 31, 2026
- Remarkable robotic hand can manipulate objects it is holding New Atlas · Oct 31, 2026
- Sanctuary AI demonstrates in-hand manipulation Sanctuary AI · Oct 31, 2026
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