Robot model

Justina

Justina is a domestic service robot designed for operation in home and office environments, built by the Pumas team at the UNAM Biorobotics Lab.

Manufacturer: UNAM Biorobotics Lab
Form factor: service
Maturity: prototype
Lifecycle: active

The verified answer

As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Justina, a service by UNAM Biorobotics Lab (prototype). 2 sources back the record.

Overview

Justina is a domestic service robot designed for operation in home and office environments, built by the Pumas team at the UNAM Biorobotics Lab. It uses low-cost commercial components and integrates speech recognition, computer vision, and semantic reasoning for human-robot interaction. Justina has competed in the RoboCup @Home league since 2006.

Verified vs. claimed

Maturity stage: prototype(Demo-capable; limited or one-off public appearances.)
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No verified deployments on file. DEPLOY tracks independently-sourced deployment evidence separately from manufacturer capability claims.

Key facts

UNAM Pumas RoboCup@Home service robot (primary TDP 2020)

Team Pumas' RoboCup@Home 2020 Team Description Paper describes Justina as the Bio-Robotics Laboratory (UNAM) domestic service robot using the VIRBOT architecture on ROS, with continuous @Home participation since Bremen 2006 and noted 2017 speech/NLU award plus 2018-2019 second-place finishes. Treat competition results as team-stated (Pumas TDP 2020)

Hardware: omni base, dual 7-DOF arms, Kinect/Jetson (primary TDP 2020)

The same TDP appendix lists Justina hardware including an omnidirectional mobile base, two 7-DOF Dynamixel arms, pan-tilt head, Kinect and Logitech C920 cameras, Hokuyo URG-04LX-UG01 lidar, Rode NTG2 microphone, and NVIDIA Jetson TX2 for vision, with open-source stacks referenced on GitHub RobotJustina/JUSTINA. Treat BOM as team-stated (Pumas TDP 2020; UNAM Bio-Robotics)

Justina TDP prints 10 Dynamixel servos per arm and a 1-DOF torso

The Pumas 2020 Team Description Paper appendix prints Justina manipulators as two 7-DOF arms with 10 Dynamixel servomotors each, plus a 1-DOF elevating torso. The stored hardware sentence is not this servo-count cell (Pumas TDP 2020).

Justina TDP prints four microphones, Ubuntu 16.04, and ROS Kinetic

The same appendix prints an array of four microphones, operating system Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and middleware ROS Kinetic. Those cells are not the stored Kinect and Jetson sentence (Pumas TDP 2020).

Data & sources

Web sources

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Pricing

No verified price is on record for Justina. Physical-AI systems are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price.

How DEPLOY tracks pricing

Recent activity

Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.

Record createdAug 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Justina.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Sources (2)

Common questions

What is Justina?

How much does Justina cost?

Justina's price is not publicly disclosed. DEPLOY has no verified price on record for Justina from UNAM Biorobotics Lab. Physical-AI systems like this are often sold through enterprise contracts or operated as a service rather than at a public list price; check the manufacturer for the latest.

Is Justina actually deployed in the real world?

Justina is at the prototype stage: it exists, but DEPLOY has no verified real-world deployment on record. Manufacturer capability claims should be read as claims pending independent verification.

Who makes Justina?

Justina is made by UNAM Biorobotics Lab, based in Mexico City, Mexico, founded in 1997.

Can you buy Justina?

Justina is at prototype stage and is not yet available for sale.

What are alternatives to Justina?

On the DEPLOY registry, comparable service robots to Justina include Tally, Locus Origin, Moxi, Mirokai.

How does Justina compare to Tally?

Justina and Tally (Simbe Robotics · 16 deployments) are both service robots on the DEPLOY registry. Justina has 0 verified deployments on record. Compare both records for specs, safety, deployments, and verified-vs-claimed autonomy.

Is Justina a top service?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, safety, adoption, media, and IP signals, Justina ranks in roughly the top 71% of service models tracked by the registry.

What is Justina's maturity stage?

Justina is at the prototype stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Prototype stage means demonstrations exist but commercial readiness is not yet established.

Where is Justina deployed?

No verified deployments of Justina are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.

Is Justina safe?

Justina has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.

Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-04

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-10-04

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: prototype

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: service

Sources by quality tier

2: unclassified; Unclassified source

The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.