PilotWandercraft2025
PilotWandercraft Calvin-40 (Paris, June 2025): headless industrial humanoid built in 40 days on Wandercraft's 12-year exoskeleton chassis. Voice-operated, NVIDIA Isaac + VLM stack. Force-sensing feet for reactive balance. 1M+ steps validated. Sapa + Renault deployments. $75M Series D.
Calvin-40 is the first industrial humanoid from Paris-based Wandercraft — built in just 40 days by leveraging over a decade of self-balancing exoskeleton expertise (wandercraft.eu). The lower-limb platform has already been validated with over a million steps.
Headless design: sensors and cameras mounted lower for better visibility of tools, parts and surfaces. Feet contain force sensors for precise center-of-mass control and reactive balance, enabling stable locomotion on factory floors. Voice-operated control + NVIDIA Isaac platform + Visual Language Models for autonomous navigation + task reasoning (Robot Report).
Safety: multilayer safety systems including medical-grade software inherited from exoskeleton work + visual / auditory alerts for safe human collaboration. Funding: $75M Series D closed June 11 2025. Deployments: Renault and Sapa industrial pilots (ENGtechnica).
