Muks Robotics — India's enterprise humanoid company
Muks Robotics is a Pune-headquartered robotics company building enterprise-grade humanoid robots powered by its proprietary FusionMax physical-AI platform. With the production-ready Spaceo M1 social humanoid and the industrial Spaceo Pro, Muks is positioning itself as India's flagship entry in the current humanoid robotics and AI boom, alongside Figure AI, Tesla Optimus, 1X, Apptronik, Unitree, and Boston Dynamics.
- 2021Founded
- Pune, IndiaHeadquarters
- Spaceo M1Latest flagship (2025)
- UndisclosedFunding raised
- IndiaCountry
- PrivateStatus
About Muks Robotics
Muks Robotics AI Pvt Ltd was founded in 2021 in Pune, Maharashtra, by Dr. Mukesh Bangar — a self-taught AI and robotics engineer with a medical-science background who continues to serve as Founder, CEO, and CTO. The company name is drawn from "Machine Understanding & Knowledge Synthesis," and its stated long-term mission is to build fully autonomous humanoid robots that address global labor shortages, automate dangerous and repetitive tasks, and eventually support humanity's expansion beyond Earth. Muks describes itself as India's leading humanoid company and operates a full-stack humanoid platform — AI models, mechanical and industrial design, control systems, an in-house Humanoid OS, and domain-specific enterprise software — under one roof.
Muks began life as an AI-vision and special-purpose robotics house, delivering computer-vision systems to enterprise clients before pivoting to a dedicated humanoid platform. Its 2023 milestones include onboarding Tata Motors as its first enterprise client and being selected by Indian Railways for a Mobile Vision Robot project used for underbody inspection of train bogies and gears. Additional AI-vision and inspection deployments were completed with Freudenberg, Parker Hannifin, Adani Wilmar, CG Power, and Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers. In one Tata Motors engagement alone, Muks has publicly described installing more than 80 AI-powered PCs and 600 cameras across a manufacturing site.
In 2024 and 2025 the company shifted its center of gravity to humanoids, launching the Spaceo family: Spaceo M1 (social), Spaceo Pro (industrial), and Spaceo Prime (bipedal exploration). In January 2026, Muks announced that Spaceo M1 had reached production-ready status and opened commercial pre-orders. In July 2026, the company publicly announced a collaboration with AMD to run its FusionMax platform on AMD Ryzen™ AI Embedded X100 Series processors, showcasing Spaceo M1 at AMD Advancing AI 2026. Additional 2025-2026 milestones include pilots with the Indian Army, an Emirates Airlines pilot at ForsaTEK in Dubai, and Muks being publicly cited within the AMD robotics-partner ecosystem alongside ABB, Universal Robots, Bosch Rexroth, and other industrial-automation names.
Muks Robotics has not disclosed institutional funding rounds; public reporting has characterized the company as founder-led and self-funded, with an external funding round publicly signaled for Q4 2026. LinkedIn lists the company in the 11-50 employee range, and third-party private-market trackers place employee headcount in the low-to-mid 30s. The broader competitive landscape Muks operates in — India's first serious humanoid entrant against a rising global cohort of general-purpose humanoid startups — is consistent with the current AI boom in embodied intelligence, where dozens of well-funded teams are chasing the same hardware supply base and the same class of foundation-model breakthroughs.
Product lineup: Spaceo M1, Spaceo Pro, and Spaceo Prime
Muks Robotics' humanoid platform is the Spaceo family, organized into three distinct product lines that share a common FusionMax AI stack but target very different deployment environments — social/service, industrial, and planetary exploration. All three are designed and manufactured in India.
Spaceo M1 (2025) — the social humanoid
Spaceo M1 is Muks Robotics' first mass-market humanoid and the company's current commercial flagship. It is a wheeled, upright social humanoid roughly 167 cm tall, weighing about 65 kg, with a 16-degree-of-freedom body and a starting price near $11,000. Onboard sensing includes RGB cameras, an Intel RealSense depth camera, 2D/3D LiDAR, and a four-microphone array; compute is AMD Ryzen 7 / Ryzen AI Embedded X100 class with an optional NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX module. Muks markets M1 for airports, hotels, offices, malls, retail, healthcare, and education — where it can guide passengers, deliver flight or venue information in 85+ languages, and carry luggage up to 60 kg via a docked trolley.
Spaceo Pro (2025) — the industrial humanoid
Spaceo Pro is Muks Robotics' industrial humanoid, engineered for manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, cargo, and defense applications. It ships with 20 degrees of freedom, dual 7-DOF arms (5-10 kg per arm), a base-trolley payload up to 200 kg, harmonic-drive gearboxes, dual-encoder servo joints, and an adjustable chassis that can lengthen or crouch. Muks has publicly opened pilot deployments of Spaceo Pro for pick-and-place, object sorting, assembly assistance, palletizing, AGV guidance, and warehouse operations, with published specifications citing lifting accuracy of ±1 cm, gripper accuracy of ±0.1 mm, and teleoperation latency under 100 ms.
Spaceo Prime (in development) — the bipedal explorer
Spaceo Prime is Muks Robotics' bipedal humanoid platform for extreme terrain and future planetary missions, publicly framed as a Moon/Mars exploration robot. Prime is still in the design and optimization phase, with the company publicly targeting a Mars-specific variant around 2027-2028. It shares the FusionMax AI stack and Muks-designed compute with the rest of the Spaceo family, plus a custom Awareness Processing Unit (APU) module developed in-house.
| Model | Year | Height | Weight | Payload | Battery/Runtime | Actuators | Notable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spaceo M1 | 2025 | ~1.67 m | ~65 kg | 60 kg (100 kg peak) | ~4 hr | Electric BLDC servos, harmonic/cycloidal gears | 16 DOF; ~$11K; airports, retail, hospitality |
| Spaceo Pro | 2025 | ~1.67 m (up to 7 ft) | ~65 kg | 200 kg base; 5-10 kg/arm | ~4 hr | Electric BLDC + harmonic drives, dual encoders | 20 DOF, 7-DOF arms; manufacturing, logistics, defense |
| Spaceo Prime | 2027-28 (target) | Adjustable, up to 7 ft | — | 200 kg (prototype) | — | Bipedal electric drivetrain, custom APU module | Moon/Mars exploration; in development |
Technology stack
Muks Robotics has built its humanoid platform as a vertically integrated stack: custom mechatronics, in-house perception, an in-house multimodal AI model, and its own Humanoid OS — all designed and manufactured in India. The company has publicly framed the humanoid problem as requiring both best-in-class hardware and a dedicated general-purpose AI model, and it now builds both.
Perception
Spaceo robots combine multiple RGB cameras, an Intel RealSense D435i depth camera, 2D/3D LiDAR, a four-microphone array, and tactile feedback at the manipulators. This mix of vision, depth, and touch gives Spaceo M1 the situational awareness needed for indoor navigation and crowd-facing service tasks, and gives Spaceo Pro the sensing precision required for vision-guided pick-and-place, palletizing, and inspection on the factory floor.
FusionMax multimodal AI
FusionMax is Muks Robotics' proprietary multimodal agentic AI platform and the brain of the Spaceo family. Publicly described as a roughly 2-billion-parameter Vision-Audio-Language-Action model trained on real-world data, FusionMax combines voice, vision, memory, AI agents, reasoning, navigation, and robotic task execution in a single stack. It supports on-device inference for offline, latency-sensitive operation — an important requirement for airport, factory-floor, and defense deployments where continuous cloud connectivity cannot be assumed.
Actuators, power, and compute
Spaceo humanoids use electric brushless DC (BLDC) actuators throughout — no hydraulics — paired with harmonic-drive and cycloidal gearboxes and dual-encoder servo joints. Power comes from a lithium battery pack targeting about four hours of continuous operation, and the onboard compute stack is anchored by AMD Ryzen™ AI Embedded X100 Series processors (Muks Robotics is a publicly announced AMD robotics collaborator) with optional NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX modules for higher-end AI workloads. The result is a self-contained platform: perception, planning, control, dialogue, and power all live on the robot itself.
Power management is a particularly demanding subsystem for a humanoid of this class. Each joint's servo controller must deliver hundreds of watts of instantaneous torque without thermally throttling, which drives the use of high-efficiency wide-bandgap semiconductors (SiC and GaN) in the motor-driver stages and requires tightly matched precision passives on every gate-drive and current-sense channel. The onboard battery pack integrates cell balancing, thermal management, and multi-stage protection ICs — subsystems whose reliability is often the practical ceiling on how long a humanoid platform can run between charges. MLCC capacitors and precision resistors are consumed by the thousands across every power and signal rail on a platform like Spaceo.
Applications and commercial deployments
Muks Robotics has been shipping AI-vision and inspection systems into Indian industry since 2023, and is now expanding those enterprise relationships into humanoid pilot deployments. Its stated markets span manufacturing, logistics, defense, transportation, retail, hospitality, healthcare, education, and — long-term — planetary exploration.
- Tata Motors. First enterprise client (2023). Muks has publicly described deploying AI-based safety-parking systems, missing-sealant detection, an AI digital lotto system, a forklift AI camera system, and an installation of 80+ AI PCs plus 600+ cameras across Tata Motors manufacturing sites.
- Indian Railways. Selected in 2023 for a Mobile Vision Robot project; Muks designed and manufactured a mobile vision robot for underbody inspection of train bogies and gears from scratch.
- Indian Army. Onboarded as a client for the Guardeo patrolling robot and 3D building-mapping systems using a quadruped robot dog as the vehicle.
- Emirates Airlines (ForsaTEK, Dubai) — pilot. Publicly announced pilot deployment for a social humanoid in the aviation-services environment.
- Enterprise AI-vision customers. Freudenberg, Parker Hannifin (missing-part detection, AMR), CG Power (crane safety), Adani Wilmar, and Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers.
- Spaceo humanoid deployment targets. Airports (passenger guidance, 85+ languages, luggage carry), retail and malls (assistance and promotions), hotels (check-in and concierge), offices (visitor management), manufacturing (pick-and-place, assembly assistance), and logistics/cargo (palletizing, sorting, warehouse operations).
The robotics supply chain — where Hybrid Electronics fits in
A modern humanoid robot is one of the most component-dense products ever built. A single Spaceo-class platform depends on thousands of individual electronic components: precision BLDC motor drivers, high-torque servo modules with dual encoders, IMUs and 6-DoF force-torque sensors, LiDAR and time-of-flight modules, depth cameras, GPU compute boards, embedded AI SoMs, battery-management ICs, wide-bandgap SiC/GaN power semiconductors, high-speed board-to-board connectors, precision resistors, and thousands of MLCC capacitors distributed across every power and signal rail.
Building that kind of hardware puts enormous pressure on the electronic-components supply chain. Prototype pilots and low-volume production runs frequently hit allocation, EOL notices, and long lead times on the exact parts they need, and R&D and field-service teams routinely have to support older platforms that use semiconductors no longer in mainstream distribution. During the current humanoid robotics and general-purpose robot AI boom, this pressure is amplified: dozens of well-funded teams globally are chasing the same short list of high-torque BLDC drivers, precision IMUs, GPU compute modules, and automotive-grade power semiconductors, and franchise stock on many key parts is now measured in months of lead time rather than weeks.
Hybrid Electronics has been sourcing electronic components for industrial and embedded systems since 1995. For robotics teams — humanoid, mobile, industrial, and research — we specialize in finding the parts you need when mainstream distribution can't:
Obsolete and end-of-life parts
Legacy semiconductors, sensors, connectors, and passives that are no longer in mainstream distribution — the parts that keep older platforms running during transitions to newer hardware, and the long-tail items that block a BOM from closing.
Allocated and hard-to-find active parts
High-torque BLDC motor drivers, IMUs and MEMS sensors, SiC/GaN power devices, GPU compute modules, precision resistors, and MLCC capacitors caught in allocation or long-lead times. Send us a BOM or a shortage list — we'll confirm what we can source and at what lead time.
Frequently asked questions
Who founded Muks Robotics?
Muks Robotics was founded in 2021 by Dr. Mukesh Bangar, a self-taught AI and robotics engineer with a medical-science background. He serves as Founder, CEO, and CTO. The company operates as Muks Robotics AI Pvt Ltd and is headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
What is Spaceo M1?
Spaceo M1 is Muks Robotics' production-ready social humanoid robot. It stands approximately 167 cm tall, carries a 60 kg payload (100 kg peak), offers roughly four hours of runtime, and runs the company's in-house FusionMax multimodal AI on AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 processors. Muks opened commercial pre-orders from around $11,000 in early 2026 and markets it as India's first mass-market social humanoid.
Where are Muks Robotics robots deployed commercially?
Muks Robotics has onboarded Tata Motors and Indian Railways as enterprise clients, delivered a mobile vision robot for Indian Railways underbody inspection, worked with Adani Wilmar, Parker Hannifin, CG Power, Freudenberg, and Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers on AI-vision and inspection systems, and announced pilots with the Indian Army and Emirates Airlines (ForsaTEK, Dubai). AI-vision installations at Tata Motors have included 80+ AI PCs and 600+ cameras.
How much has Muks Robotics raised?
Muks Robotics has not disclosed institutional funding to date. Public reporting has described the company as founder-led and self-funded, with an external funding round publicly signaled for Q4 2026. Third-party trackers place employee headcount in the 11-50 range as of 2026.
Is Hybrid Electronics affiliated with Muks Robotics?
No. Hybrid Electronics is an independent electronic-components sourcing company. We are not a distributor, reseller, or partner of Muks Robotics. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. Hybrid supports robotics developers by sourcing obsolete, allocated, and hard-to-find semiconductors, sensors, connectors, and passives for R&D, prototype, and low-volume production builds.
Can Hybrid help with components for humanoid robotics builds?
Yes. We regularly support R&D and integrator teams with hard-to-find semiconductors, BLDC motor-driver ICs, IMUs and other MEMS sensors, connectors, SiC/GaN power devices, and precision passives for the industrial and embedded boards used in robotics platforms. Send us a BOM or a short list of shortages and we'll confirm availability and pricing.
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