Roger

Minerva Humanoids

United States

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Roger is Minerva Humanoids' semi-autonomous humanoid, built for the work that kills people rather than for the work that merely bores them, and the company's framing is blunt about it: Roger does the work humans should not. The robot walks, is designed to weigh under 100 kg when outfitted, to climb stairs, to cope with wet surfaces and to fit into a passenger seat for transport, with modular payloads planned for different environments. What makes it unusual is not the hardware but where the intelligence sits. A person in a VR headset sees through Roger's cameras, body trackers send their motion to the robot and haptic feedback returns the feel of contact, over a link the company calls cybersecure and military-grade, while onboard software handles the parts a human should not have to micromanage: balance, navigation and recovery from a fall. That keeps human judgement and two-handed dexterity in the loop while the human stays behind the muster line, and Minerva intends to hand more of the work to the robot over time along a spectrum from remote teleoperation to fully independent execution. On an oil and gas asset it covers three jobs: emergency response to a toxic gas alarm, a leak or a fire watch; condition monitoring through scheduled line walkdowns every shift, reading gauges and tracking corrosion so anomalies are caught before they become incidents; and remote operations, where every teleoperated inspection is one fewer person on board and therefore fewer helicopter seats, fewer beds and less personnel-on-board risk. In public safety it is aimed at explosive ordnance disposal and mine render-safe, CBRNE decontamination and high-risk entry, so the bomb technician works outside the blast radius and spends less time in the bomb suit. Roger went from concept to a walking prototype in five months and was unveiled on 6 October 2026, with first paid pilots planned for autumn 2026.