GENE.01

Overview

GENE.01 is a full-size industrial humanoid from Generative Bionics, a Genoa company built on two decades of humanoid research at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, home of iCub. It appeared as a concept during AMD's CES keynote in January 2026. A working robot was unveiled on July 20, 2026, six months later. The company sells it as a base platform that gets custom AI, shells, hands and feet for each job. The first such version is a welding humanoid for Fincantieri's Sestri Ponente shipyard, with on-site tests planned by the end of 2026. Eni has also signed an MoU to study inspection and teleoperation uses.

Its main feature is a tactile skin across the whole body that senses touch, proximity, force and temperature, so it can react before and during contact with people. Force sensing also lets workers teach a task by showing the force needed, such as how hard to grip. AMD supplies the onboard CPUs, GPUs and FPGA boards, and Synapticon in Germany is developing the joint actuators. The digital twin, a robot description for simulators, is a URDF on GitHub, PyPI and conda-forge under a non-commercial license. It models 31 body joints and 21 per hand, at about 80 kg and 1.78 m (estimate). No price or official specs have been published, and launch is targeted for Q4 2026.