Manufacturing Asimov-1 with Menlo Research

San Francisco, November 12, 2026 — Tensr today announced a manufacturing partnership with Menlo Research for Asimov-1, Menlo Research’s open-source humanoid robot.

Asimov-1 is a research and teaching platform for whole-body control and locomotion. It is delivered as a kit with every subsystem open to the user, and it runs independently developed models.

“educational humanoid for builders, engineers and researchers who want to work with real hardware” Menlo Research · on Asimov-1

Menlo Research publishes the complete design of Asimov-1. The hardware is licensed under the CERN Open Hardware Licence v2-S, the software under GPL-2.0, and the asimov-mjlab training stack under Apache-2.0. The manual, simulation models and source code are available on GitHub.

Under the partnership with Menlo Research, Tensr will manufacture and assemble Asimov-1 at its Bay Area facility.