Sanctuary AI
Phoenix Gen 7/8
2024 Market Share
2%
Founded 2018·Vancouver, Canada·General-purpose humanoid with Carbon AI cognitive platform
Units Produced 2024
~80
Units Target 2026
2,000
Total Funding
$138M+
Approach
Cognitive AI-first. Teleoperation training to bootstrap autonomy. Chose wheeled base over bipedal based on customer feedback (legs too fragile for industrial use).
Technical Specifications
Height
170 cm
Weight
70 kg
DOF
20 (hands with haptic sensing)
Payload
55 kg (second highest)
Runtime
Not disclosed
Speed
4.8 km/h
Price
Not disclosed
Strengths
- +Carbon AI cognitive platform — general-purpose reasoning
- +First commercial deployment March 2024 (retail/manufacturing pilots)
- +Magna International (automotive tier-1) as investor and partner
- +Dexterous hands with haptic feedback
- +Pragmatic wheeled-base pivot based on customer feedback
Vulnerabilities
- −Wheeled base limits deployment scenarios vs bipedal
- −Smaller funding round than Figure/Apptronik
- −Canadian market is small for initial traction
Component Story
Phoenix hands emphasize dexterity with 20 DOF and haptic sensing. Carbon AI platform blends teleoperation training data with autonomous reasoning.
Actuators
In-house + Magna manufacturing
Compute
Custom + cloud
Battery
Third-party
Sensors
Dexterous hand haptics + vision
Funding History
| Year | Round | Amount | Lead Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Seed | Seed | — |
| 2022 | Series A | $58.5M | BDC |
| 2023 | Series B | $75M | Magna |
Key Partners
Magna InternationalBDCBell
Competing Platforms
Current Status
Retail/manufacturing pilots, Magna collaboration active
Source: Ch.7 Competitive Landscape v2