Minerva Roger

Roger is a humanoid robot from Minerva Humanoids, a robotics company founded at the end of 2025 that lists its headquarters in San Francisco [s2]. The company builds it for hazardous work in onshore and offshore oil and gas and in public safety, including explosive ordnance disposal and hazardous-materials response [s1][s2]. Minerva says the design lets a trained specialist handle risky tasks from outside the hazard zone [s2].

Control is shared between an operator and the robot. The operator works through a VR headset and sees through the robot's eyes, while Minerva's proprietary AI system handles balance, fall recovery and navigation [s2][s3]. The interview says Roger does not need a live cloud connection to operate [s3].

Minerva's official site lists Roger at under 100 kg outfitted, with a 4–5 mph walking range, 20 degrees of freedom per hand, a 12 kg payload per hand, and 3–5+ hours of battery life depending on activity intensity [s1][s4]. It also lists camera, thermal, chemical and radiological sensing [s1][s4]. These are company-published figures rather than independent test results.

The company says it moved from concept to a walking prototype in about five months, with software developed mainly in the United States and prototypes assembled in Germany [s2]. It plans its first paid pilots in the fall of 2026 and, according to the CEO, is testing with the FBI [s2][s3]. Minerva has not published an exact weight, standing height, total robot degrees of freedom or price [s1][s2][s4].