Clone Robotics

A company building humanoid robots driven by artificial muscles that copy human anatomy.

Clone Robotics got its start in 2021, reportedly headquartered in Wrocław, Poland, founded by Dhanush Radhakrishnan and Łukasz Koźlik. Instead of the usual “motor plus gearbox” approach, it models the human skeleton and muscles directly: fluid-driven artificial muscles it calls Myofiber pull on a polymer skeleton. The company started with robotic hands — the Clone Hand reportedly cost about $2,800 to build as of 2023 — and in February 2025 it unveiled Protoclone, a musculoskeletal humanoid prototype that was still suspended and had not demonstrated autonomous walking. Its website now lists a bipedal humanoid for individuals and businesses, Clone (Alpha), with a next-generation Neoclone in development. If this approach works, the resulting robots should move more smoothly and look more human, but at the cost of much harder control and reliability problems.

ExampleProtoclone is driven by more than 1,000 Myofiber artificial muscles and is claimed to have more than 200 degrees of freedom.

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Clone

Related

Clone Robotics Protoclone · Artificial Muscle · Bio-inspired Robot · Tendon-Driven Actuation · Hyper-realistic (Bionic) Humanoid Robot / Android

Sources

Clone Robotics 官网 (Chinese)
Protoclone 报道（Interesting Engineering） (Chinese)

As of

2026-09