WorkFar Technologies

Full Name

WorkFar Inc

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WorkFar, which presents itself as WorkFar Technologies in its site footer and WorkFar Inc in its page titles, and which its own press posts call WorkFar Robotics, is a United States robotics and manufacturing company whose mailing address is 8 the Green, Ste A, Dover, Delaware. It states its mission as creating intelligent, reliable and human-friendly solutions and its vision as shaping a future where AI technologies enhance productivity while supporting human potential, under the line that it produces artificial intelligence technologies to achieve more. Rather than a pure robot developer, it describes itself as an integrated technology, manufacturing and automation-systems enterprise: it owns United States factory capacity including plastic injection, mould and tool building, CNC machining, 3D printing and full product assembly, with value-added services such as product design and prototyping, and it sells custom automation systems, industrial controls, fulfilment technologies, vision and data management, machine design, electric cabinet design and conventional industrial robots alongside its own humanoid. Its customers and end customers have included General Electric, Toyota, BMW, Bosch, Daifuku, Emerson, Mazak, Dematic, Applied Industrial and the United States Department of Defense, and it markets contract manufacturing on the strength of what it calls the world's largest factory for humanoid robots. Its product is Syntro, a wheeled humanoid sold in three packages: Base, which provides core perception, motion and safety functions with an SDK and is aimed at entry, development, education and fun; Telepresence, which adds live teleoperation and shared autonomy with a VR headset, haptic gloves, suit and pedals for dangerous areas and clean rooms; and Intelligent, which adds built-in artificial intelligence, real-time learning and fleet management with an IoT layer. Syntro is published with 45 degrees of freedom, a 1.7 m height, 108 kg weight and a 20 kg payload, made in the United States at Advantage Plastics in Louisville, Kentucky, and priced from USD 9,999.99 to USD 59,999.99 depending on the package. In September 2024 David Hanson, the founder of Hanson Robotics and creator of Sophia, was appointed WorkFar's Chief Executive Advisor, and Hanson Robotics and WorkFar had already collaborated on Syntro, pairing the robot with a trained remote operator using VR goggles and force-feedback gloves. WorkFar states plainly that it has received no venture capital: it says it reached mass production without any VC funding while competitors raised hundreds of millions, and it finances customers instead through outright purchase, equipment lending, leasing and monthly usage arrangements, including leasing both a robot and a trained remote operator with no down payment.

Robot Products

Syntro

Released 2024

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