Aldebaran Robotics Romeo — Specs, Price & Where to Buy (2026)

The Romeo never had a commercial price. Historical estimates placed the cost for research partners at around €250,000, but this was a funded project, not a sale price. No units are available for purchase today.

Romeo can walk bipedally at up to 0.5 km/h, grasp light objects (2 kg payload), recognize people with stereo cameras, and interact via tactile skin and speech. It was designed to assist elderly people with daily tasks like fetching items and monitoring falls.

No. The Romeo was a research prototype funded by the French government and was never produced commercially. It has been discontinued since about 2017, and no new or used units are sold through official channels.

The PAL Robotics REEM-C is a current commercial full-size humanoid with 44 DOF, sold for around $360,000, while the Romeo had 37 DOF and was never sold. The REEM-C has active support, modern computing, and a wider research community, making it the practical choice for new projects.

Height: 1,400 mm, weight: 40 kg, degrees of freedom: 37, max speed: 0.5 km/h, payload: 2 kg, compute: Intel Atom with Linux OS. Battery runtime was not officially published.

Aldebaran Robotics, a French company founded in 2005 in Paris. The company was acquired by SoftBank in 2015 and later renamed SoftBank Robotics Europe. The Romeo project was led by Aldebaran with government funding.

The battery life was never disclosed by Aldebaran. Early reports suggest it was insufficient for long-term autonomous operation, but no official runtime or charging time was published.

The Romeo was used exclusively in academic and government research: elderly care robotics, human-robot interaction studies, and bipedal locomotion research. It never reached commercial industries like healthcare or retail.