Noble Machines exits stealth with Moby

Noble Machines was founded in 2024 by a team of engineers with prior experience at Apple, SpaceX, NASA and Caltech, according to the company's announcement. businesswire.com The startup says it shipped and deployed its first units to an unnamed Fortune Global 500 industrial customer within 18 months of launch, meeting an early commercial delivery milestone. businesswire.com Moby’s published specs list a roughly 170 cm tall frame with about 34 degrees of freedom and a lifting capacity of ~27 kg (60 lb), putting it among the higher-payload bipeds reported this cycle. mikekalil.com Noble highlights an integrated “whole-body” AI control stack and end-to-end autonomy as core differentiators for field deployment. businesswire.com The company claims Moby can learn new industrial skills in hours via multimodal training — natural-language commands, physical demonstrations and gesture teaching — rather than months of lab tuning. interestingengineering.com Reported operational numbers include an average electrical draw near 200 W and roughly 5–6 hours of operation driven by a single NVIDIA Jetson-class edge computer in the on-board stack. mikekalil.com Field-driven design changes have already been made: early trials prompted hardware swaps such as fitting Caterpillar work boots to improve durability in industrial settings, per industry coverage. automate.org Noble scheduled live demonstrations at NVIDIA GTC 2026 and is promoting partnerships with industrial-edge vendors as it moves from prototype into customer-facing deployments. tmcnet.com