Feather

Feather Robotics Inc. (East Palo Alto, CA) sells Feather, a wheeled, two-armed humanoid robot built as an open hardware and developer platform for physical AI: the 'Android of robotics' rather than a closed, vertically integrated robot like Tesla's or Figure's. Two 7-DoF arms with 1 m reach sit on a torso with 600 mm of vertical travel and a holonomic base (1.3 m/s in any direction), with 23 DoF total, dual hot-swappable batteries (~10 hours), swappable end effectors (6-DoF hands or parallel grippers), swappable NVIDIA Jetson compute (Nano, Orin AGX or Thor), built-in teleoperation, and an open Python/ROS2 SDK under Apache 2.0. It runs models from any robotics-AI provider (NVIDIA, Skild, Physical Intelligence). Listed at $32,990 and currently $29,990, it is one-half to one-third the price of Unitree's H2 Edu (~$68K), Agibot's G2 (~$135K) and Dexmate's Vega (~$83K). The company says it built a first prototype in two months, fulfilled its first order in nine, and has sold robots for over a year into manufacturing, food service (robots cooking in restaurants) and lab cleanup, including a $4B-revenue manufacturer, passing $1M in revenue. Its thesis is that value accrues to hardware as frontier robot foundation models commoditise. Founded in 2025 by CEO Hoa Mai (ex-Google and Apple; co-founded Kind Humanoid, acquired by 1X) and CPO Parsa Bakhtiari (scaled Tesla Model 3 production in 2018, reporting to Elon Musk). It announced a $7.6M pre-seed SAFE led by Gradient Ventures on 2026-09-24.