Feather Robotics Launches a $29,990 Developer Humanoid, Discloses $7.6M Round
Feather Robotics came out of stealth this week with a wheeled, bimanual robot platform aimed at developers rather than consumers — and, unusually for the category, an actual checkout price. Feather’s own site lists two 7-DoF arms, a 600 mm-travel torso, a holonomic wheeled base moving up to 1.3 m/s, dual hot-swappable batteries good for about 10 hours, and roughly a meter of reach, starting at $29,990 for the standard build. The store’s fully-loaded “Full System” configuration — both arms, grippers, a stereo camera, entry-level compute — checks out at $31,990; a single-arm “Half System” runs $16,995. Compute is sold separately and swappable, from a $500 Jetson Nano up to a $5,500 Jetson Thor, which is the point: Feather wants to be hardware other companies’ AI models run on, not a closed stack like Tesla’s Optimus or Figure’s platform.
The launch came with a funding disclosure. According to a regulatory filing from Seed Innovations Limited, one of its backers, Feather raised $7.6 million in a pre-seed SAFE round led by Gradient Ventures, with Builder Capital, Geometry, Virgo VC and Seed Innovations itself participating, at a $60 million valuation cap. The same filing says Feather had already booked seven-figure revenue from early customers — including a manufacturer with roughly $4 billion in annual sales — from small-batch sales that predate this public launch.
The number is worth reading against the closest things already in this index. Hello Robot’s Stretch 3 is a single-arm mobile manipulator at a published $24,950; Pollen Robotics’ Reachy 2 is a dual-arm research platform at $70,000. At $29,990–$31,990 for two arms, Feather lands squarely between them, and like both it ships with an open SDK instead of a closed app ecosystem. Whether “bring your own AI” beats a vertically integrated humanoid is the open question the market will answer; for now, it’s one of the few developer-facing bimanual platforms anyone can check out and buy today rather than wait on an enterprise pilot.
Sources
Primary sources referenced in this article. Prices in the tables come from the live index and carry their own as-of dates.
- Feather Robotics — build/order page (feather.dev)
- Seed Innovations Limited — Investee Company Update: Feather Robotics Inc. (regulatory filing) (investegate.co.uk)