Piggy Robotics - Humanoid robots
We built a mass-producible humanoid robot for less than $1000 in 2 months.
Hello! We’re Richard and Chenny, founders of Piggy Robotics. We build mass-producible humanoid robots that do your chores at iPhone prices.
Below is why our architecture is uniquely positioned to win the humanoid race:
1. We built a full-size, mass-producible humanoid robot in 2 months, complete with custom muscles, valves, and pumps for less than $1000. For comparison, other humanoid companies with hundreds of millions in cash spent years developing their actuators before touching a full prototype. We’re the most capital-efficient humanoid company, and we’re on track to catch up with incumbents that have far more capital within one year.
2. Mass production must happen before autonomy. Tesla collects hundreds of thousands of hours of driving data per day from cars with basically 2 DoF. A humanoid has >50 DoF. To collect the same amount of data, you need >100K humanoid robots deployed. Existing humanoid companies can only produce a few hundred units per year. Our artificial muscles are far cheaper and simpler, meaning we can manufacture millions of humanoids and reach autonomy far sooner.
️3. Only our humanoid at iPhone prices can enter every home. A household robot cannot be a 70kg, $20k metal beast. At that price point, adoption follows car-level economics. New cars mostly cost over $20k, and the entire world buys only around 75 million per year. But at $2k, adoption shifts into phone-level territory, where the world buys over a billion smartphones every year. Only an architecture built around cheap, simple-to-produce artificial muscles can reach phone-scale manufacturing quickly and make that future possible.
Team
Richard studied Medicine at Oxford University, built AI systems for personalized cancer vaccines, and has a deep understanding of human anatomy and biomechanicsx—knowledge that is directly relevant to designing artificial muscles and full-body actuation.
Chenny trained AI models to read human motion—the foundational step for teleoperation and future autonomy—while doing her PhD in Computer Science at Oxford University. She previously worked on AI at Tencent. Fun fact: at age 13, Chenny built the largest laser-tag centre in her city.
Together, we spent a year inside factories deploying humanoid robots in real production environments.
Even though Piggy Robotics is only a few months old, we’ve already assembled a 16-engineer elite hardware & software team from Oxford University and top global robotics competitions. This combination of deep biomechanics, AI motion understanding, and hands-on factory deployment uniquely positions us to build the first truly mass-producible humanoid robot.
Our Ask
If our mission resonates and you want to ship humanoids with us, we’d love to connect: founders@piggyrobotics.com