Persona AI industrial humanoid
Persona AI, founded in Houston in 2024 by NASA Valkyrie and Nauticus veteran Nic Radford with Jerry Pratt (ex IHMC), is building a ruggedised humanoid for shipyards and other harsh industrial sites. It announced a development partnership with HD Hyundai's shipbuilding arms in 2025 for welding tasks.
We have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
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What people buy instead.
- Status
- Prototype
- Category
- industrial
- First revealed
- n/a
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- unknown
Where it stands
Rugged humanoid for shipbuilding and heavy industry under development with HD Hyundai; first prototypes targeted for 2026.
What stands out
- Focus on shipbuilding welding
- HD Hyundai partnership (2025)
- Founders from NASA Valkyrie and IHMC
Price and volume
no public price
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Persona AI industrial humanoid sits at #103 of 107 with 2 points: deployment 0/50, autonomy 2/30, availability 0/20. See that method.
Where Persona AI industrial humanoid works.
| Customer | Site | Sector | Task | Since | Status | Units | Autonomy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HD Hyundai Samho and HD Hyundai Robotics | HD Hyundai shipyards, South Korea, South Korea | other | Welding in shipbuilding with a humanoid, developed jointly with Vazil Company | Dec 2024 | announced | n/d | unknown |
Sources
- 01Persona AIPersona AI
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