Mex-One

Mex-One is a humanoid research robot developed at Mexico's CINVESTAV by a team led by Eduardo Bayro-Corrochano. The first public presentation on 14 July 2010 showed an incomplete upper-body system and described a planned 40-motor design. The completed robot was presented in July 2011 with 36 motors/degrees of freedom.

The final published figures give a height of 105 cm and a weight of about 15 kg. Its joint breakdown was six per leg, two in the waist, five per arm, four per hand and four in the head. At the 2011 presentation it could stand, walk in a straight line and visually track objects in three dimensions. Stair climbing, serving water, face recognition, dialogue and learning were described as future goals rather than demonstrated capabilities. The three-finger hands were actuated by four motors each.

Contemporary coverage put project spending at about US$100,000 and estimated that a copy might cost about US$50,000; neither figure was a public sale price. An official Mexican technology-institute article documents 2017 student work on Mex-One's biped model and piezoelectric foot sensing, disproving the earlier claim that development stopped in 2011. No more recent active program or formal end date was found, so it remains classified as a discontinued historical research platform.