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About Sanctuary AI

Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver company developing physical AI for industrial work that conventional automation handles badly: variable, dexterous tasks on production lines and in plants. It became known for Phoenix, its general-purpose humanoid robot, and for Carbon, the AI control system that lets a robot observe, reason about and perform work tasks, together with proprietary hydraulic hands designed for human-level dexterity and tactile sensing. The company’s current positioning is broader than its own robot: it now offers its physical AI as a hardware-agnostic system that can be deployed on commercially available third-party robotic platforms, with Phoenix and its dexterous hands as the longer-term path to humanoid deployment.

That makes its customers industrial leaders — automotive and other manufacturers are the named early focus — that need labour for complex manual tasks rather than another fixed automation cell. Sanctuary sells validated task performance, such as wire-assembly and in-hand manipulation work demonstrated with industrial partners, rather than research demos. For partners, Sanctuary AI is relevant as a Canadian physical-AI supplier for manufacturers, integrators and investors tracking the point where humanoid-class dexterity becomes deployable, paid industrial work.

Products & services

• Physical AI platform — hardware-agnostic AI deployed on commercially available robotic systems for industrial tasks
• Carbon™ — AI control system for general-purpose robots (perception, reasoning and task execution)
• Phoenix™ — general-purpose humanoid robot (successive generations, currently seventh generation)
• Proprietary hydraulic robotic hands with tactile sensing for dexterous manipulation
• Industrial automation deployment and consultation for complex manual tasks

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• Company website — sanctuary.ai (official site: profile facts, headquarters, markets and product range). Checked 6 November 2026.
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