A Polish-American company has unveiled androids that move using muscles and bones
An android that mimics human anatomy with over 1,000 artificial muscles attached to a fully modeled skeleton and has an intricate “nervous system” has been unveiled in a viral video by a Polish-American robotics company.
The video of Clone Robotics’ ‘Alpha’ prototype, released on Wednesday, has quickly racked up tens of millions of views. It features a faceless white android suspended in mid-air, twitching as its synthetic muscles engage.
While it resembles other humanoid robots like Elon Musk’s Optimus and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, its design principles set it apart.
The model utilizes biomimetics — design inspired by biological evolution, such as Velcro mimicking plant hooks — to enhance the robot’s functionality.
The full-body Clone expands on earlier creations, including a humanoid hand and a torso, which the inventors claim are adept at delicate tasks and match human strength and dexterity. The android is intended to serve as a domestic assistant, utilizing a natural language interface to follow commands from its owner. The firm plans to produce 279 Clones in the near future.
Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. pic.twitter.com/oIV1yaMSyE
— Clone (@clonerobotics) February 19, 2025
The research behind Clone began in 2014, led by Polish engineer Lucas Kozlik and later joined by California-based mathematician Dhanush Radhakrishnan.
Some media outlets have likened Clone to the lifelike robots featured in HBO’s Westworld. The Clone Robotics website also touts a project called Neo, described enigmatically as a “vision of a limitless future for humanity.”
February 21, 2025 at 05:10PM
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