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Clone Alpha (Protoclone)
A biomimetic android driven by more than 1,000 water-powered artificial muscles over a 206-bone polymer skeleton, a fundamentally different approach from electric-motor humanoids, currently offered as a 279-unit reservation against a prototype that has only been shown twitching on a rig, not walking or working.
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Dexterous hands included
Anatomically accurate biomimetic hands are central to this design, not a bolt-on gripper: Clone's origin product was a full musculotendon robotic hand, and the Alpha's 26-DOF hand-wrist-elbow assemblies are integral to the muscle-driven build. The caveat is that the hands exist in the design and prototype, but no Alpha has been publicly shown performing dexterous manipulation autonomously.
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Reality check
Most other robots in this catalog you can at least watch walk. The only thing Clone has publicly shown is the Protoclone twitching while hanging from a frame, and there is no confirmed price, ship date, or SDK, so a reservation here is a bet on the technology, not a purchase of a finished product.
Can you get one, and what will it cost?
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You cannot order the Clone Alpha (Protoclone) today: it is announced.
Nobody has been able to buy one. The 279-unit run was announced as open to the public and framed for high-net-worth buyers and research institutions, but no checkout ever opened and no delivery has been shown. Clone's own roadmap now points at a torso in late 2026, a walking demo in 2027, and a first commercial unit in 2028.
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Catalog checked 2026-09
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Nobody has been able to buy one. The 279-unit run was announced as open to the public and framed for high-net-worth buyers and research institutions, but no checkout ever opened and no delivery has been shown. Clone's own roadmap now points at a torso in late 2026, a walking demo in 2027, and a first commercial unit in 2028.
Price notes: No official price has ever been published, and there is no checkout. Clone announced reservations for 279 limited-edition Alpha units and its leadership has only likened cost to "limited-edition supercar" money (while saying they intend to bring it down over time), but the pre-order page has carried its "available in 2025" framing unchanged into 2026 without ever opening a paid order. The $20k, $100k, and $200k figures on spec aggregators are their own estimates, not a number Clone has confirmed. Treat any dollar amount as unverified.
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How the Clone Alpha (Protoclone) rates
Editorial ratings based on listed specifications and sales availability. They do not measure task performance, autonomy, or reliability.
- Class
- Frontier machineA cutting-edge full-scale humanoid aimed at real work. Mostly enterprise, or still proving out.
- CapabilityHardware specification indicators
- 5/5
- Baseline: any humanoid+1
- Degrees of freedom: 164 DOF+2.5
- Dexterity: dexterous hands included+1
- Scale: 170 cm tall+0.75
Key specifications
Height
170 cm
Width
n/a
Depth
n/a
Weight
60 kg
Degrees of freedom
164
Battery
n/a
Payload
n/a
Top speed
n/a
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Size to scale
Drawn next to a 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) person. Every robot on the site uses this same reference, so you can trust the comparison at a glance.
Clone Alpha (Protoclone): 170 cm / 5 ft 7 in, 60 kg
What it does on day onewith zero programming
Nothing yet. There is no shipping unit to power on. What exists publicly is the Protoclone research prototype: a muscle-and-bone android that twitches, shrugs, clenches its fists, and moves its limbs while suspended from a frame. It demonstrates the actuation technology, not a robot you can put to work.
Best for: Collectors, researchers, and deep-pocketed early adopters who want a stake in the most radically different actuation approach in humanoids and understand they are reserving a bet, not buying a working robot.
What it takes to developskills, gear, and SDK access
There is no published SDK, API, or developer platform to build against. Clone markets a proprietary Cybernet visuomotor AI and a Telekinesis teleoperation-and-training approach, but neither is documented or available to third parties. Anyone hoping to develop on this is waiting on Clone to ship both the hardware and a developer stack that does not publicly exist today.
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