Deployment

Phoenix is Sanctuary AI's general-purpose humanoid robot, distinguished by highly dexterous hydraulic hands for fine manipulation and controlled by the company's Carbon AI system, a teleoperation-to-autonomy data-capture pipeline. Made by Sanctuary AI, formerly Sanctuary Cognitive Systems, of Vancouver, British Columbia, its latest generation is Phoenix Generation 8, from January 2025. The registry records a material corporate re-centering since the original entry: co-founder and chief technology officer Suzanne Gildert departed in April 2024 and founder and chief executive Geordie Rose was removed in November 2024, leaving to start a quantum venture, with former chief commercial officer James Wells becoming chief executive, and through 2025 and 2026 nearly all of Sanctuary's public activity has shifted to its dexterous hydraulic hand, tactile sensing, and in-hand manipulation, explicitly framed as a hand-first roadmap with hands built in a modular format for integration with other companies' robots, alongside materials and AI partnerships such as Zeon in June 2026, NVIDIA Isaac Lab, and Microsoft. Sanctuary has not announced abandoning the full Phoenix humanoid, so the registry keeps it at research maturity and active lifecycle rather than asserting a clean licensing pivot or a wind-down, but it flags the open question of full-humanoid commitment versus a component-IP strategy as a watch item, alongside financial-pressure signals including a roughly seventy-five-and-a-half-million Canadian dollar Series A in November 2024 and small subsequent raises against far better capitalized competitors. Phoenix today is teleoperation-primary, piloted by human operators for production and data capture while training toward autonomy through Carbon, so the registry does not present it as an autonomous deployed product.

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