Noble Machines

Executive Summary

Noble Machines is taking a pragmatist route into industrial humanoids. Its core argument is that heavy industry needs robots that can tolerate harsh terrain, carry useful payloads, and learn practical work quickly, not humanoids optimized first for consumer familiarity or polished demos.

About Noble Machines

Noble Machines is a U.S. industrial humanoid company, previously operating as Under Control Robotics, that focuses on hazardous and physically demanding work. Founded in 2024 by veterans from SpaceX, Apple, NASA, and Caltech, the company is building Moby as a pragmatic robot platform for construction, energy, logistics, and manufacturing.

1. 2024

   Noble Machines begins as Under Control Robotics

   Noble Machines was founded in 2024 and initially operated as Under Control Robotics. The founding team came from organizations including SpaceX, Apple, NASA, and Caltech, and focused early on hazardous industrial tasks rather than consumer or service robotics.

   Under Control RoboticsIndustrial humanoids
2. March 18, 2025

   Moby is built and deployed in under eight months

   In March 2025, the company said it had built and deployed Moby in under eight months using the NVIDIA Isaac platform. It emphasized rugged mobility, a 60-pound payload, outdoor navigation, and practical industrial autonomy instead of showroom-style humanoid aesthetics.

   MobyNVIDIA Isaac60-pound payload
3. 2026

   Noble highlights fast deployment into a Fortune Global 500 site

   By 2026, Noble Machines was framing itself around real deployment velocity, noting a first Fortune Global 500 deployment within roughly 18 months. That message reinforced its industrial, anti-demo positioning in the broader humanoid landscape.

   Fortune Global 500Deployment