robotindex O-ID Modular Humanoid
A modular industrial humanoid from Tokyo-based O-ID Inc. — major modules (joints, limbs, compute) can reportedly be swapped in about five minutes without tools, on the factory floor, rather than shipping the whole unit back for repair. Runs on a wheeled, omnidirectional base instead of legs.
Manufacturer page — o-id.net →
Image: O-ID Inc. (manufacturer render)
Specs
Height
172 cmcompany figure, called "indicative"
Weight
70 kgcompany figure, called "indicative"
Payload
16 kgcompany figure, called "indicative"
Degrees of Freedom
30company figure, called "indicative"
Modules
9+swappable, tool-free
Base
Wheeledomnidirectional, no legs
Module Swap
~5 minon-site, no tools, per company
Funding
$1.2M pre-seedannounced Sept 24, 2026
Status
Pre-productionno pilots or customers named
Reference Price
Not announced. O-ID has not published a price for the modular humanoid, and no unit has shipped or been sold. (A third-party robotics directory site lists a $70,000 figure and additional specs such as top speed and runtime, but that figure doesn't appear on O-ID's own site or in its funding coverage, so it's treated here as unverified and not published.)
Sensors & Hardware
The core pitch is repairability rather than a specific sensor suite: O-ID says "every major module comes off and goes back on in about five minutes, on the floor, without tools," so a broken shoulder, forearm, or compute module can be swapped on-site instead of returning the whole robot to the manufacturer. The base is wheeled and omnidirectional rather than legged. O-ID has not published sensor, camera, or gripper specifications, battery chemistry, or runtime figures.
Insights
O-ID is a very early-stage company: it announced a $1.2M pre-seed round on September 24, 2026 (led by Tawani Ventures, with Hustle Fund and Techstars also involved), has signed a letter of intent with Sumitomo Electric Industries on wire-harness technology, and is targeting Japan's projected shortfall of roughly 11 million industrial workers by 2040. No pilots, customers, or shipping units have been announced. The height/weight/payload/DOF figures above are the company's own, explicitly described as indicative rather than final, and the module-swap-time claim is O-ID's own as well — none of this has been independently tested.
Firmware & Community
Closed platform
O-ID has not released a public SDK, firmware repo, or developer API. Not currently listed in Builds & Mods.
Specs, funding, and company details sourced from O-ID's own site (o-id.net) and its pre-seed announcement post, plus coverage of the September 24, 2026 raise from TechCrunch-adjacent and robotics-industry outlets (TNW, Techstars, Robotics & Automation News, RoboticsTomorrow), as of September 2026. Height, weight, payload, DOF, and module count are O-ID's own figures, which the company itself calls indicative rather than final, and have not been independently tested. Pricing is not announced by O-ID; a third-party aggregator's $70,000 figure could not be corroborated against a primary source and is not published here. The product photo is O-ID's own manufacturer render, cleaned of a third-party aggregator's watermark before use; it is not a photo of built hardware. Moved directly to Under Review (pending) at initial listing given the product's pre-production stage. robotindex does not sell this product.