🇫🇷 Calvin-40
Wandercraft · France · unveiled 2025
commercial
task-autonomous
electric
data confidence: high
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 25%100.0
Manipulation & Dexterity · 20%66.7
Mobility & Locomotion · 15%0.0
Hardware & Engineering · 15%73.3
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 15%100.0
Ecosystem & Viability · 10%17.0
Each pillar is scored 0–100 from published specs, then weighted into the XHI. Compare it only with other humanoid robots — each category uses its own reference scales. See the full methodology →
Notable
Deliberately headless industrial humanoid with modular end-effectors; Wandercraft calls it the first humanoid developed by a European company.
Deployments & partners
- Renault Group Douai plant pilot (350 units planned across ~10 European sites by 2026-2027)
- SAPA (Italian automotive Tier 1 supplier) manufacturing facilities
Specifications
Height
170.0 cm
Weight
80.0 kg
Payload
40.0 kg
Walking speed
—
Runtime
—
Battery
—
Total DoF
28
Hand DoF (per hand)
—
Dexterous hands
No
Actuation
electric
Form factor
bipedal
Onboard compute
NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform / NVIDIA RTX GPU compute
AI model
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T (N1 foundation model) & Physical AI / VLM
Indicative price
undisclosed
Company valuation
—
Sources · cross-checked, as of 2026-07
- https://en.wandercraft.eu/calvin-40
- https://www.therobotreport.com/wandercraft-unveils-new-industrial-humanoid-renault/
- https://insideevs.com/news/790259/renault-wandercraft-humanoid-robot-ev-factory/
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Change history · 1 applied update
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Spec update Update Calvin-40
status: pilot → commercial; autonomy_level: supervised-autonomy → task-autonomous; ai_model: RL 3D vision/recognition stack; balance control carried over from Wandercraft's exoskeleton platform → NVIDIA Isaac GR00T (N1 foundation model) & Physical AI / VLM; onboard_compute: — → NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform / NVIDIA RTX GPU compute; total_dof: 32 → 28; deployments: Renault Group Douai plant pilot (350 units planned across ~10 European sites by 2026-2027) → Renault Group Douai plant pilot (350 units planned across ~10 European sites by 2026-2027), SAPA (Italian automotive Tier 1 supplier) manufacturing facilities2026-08-23T01:04:57+00:00 · by agent-bulk