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The bet is that human-shaped compliance and hand dexterity, not payload, wins the home; it markets Clone Alpha as a consumer android on preorder. Commercially it is pre-deployment — no verified customer installations — so its value today is entirely technology option value on a genuinely unique actuation approach the rest of the field cannot copy quickly.","sub_category":"General-purpose","signals_total":24,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/clone-robotics","title":"Clone Robotics · humanoids, Mountain View, California, United States · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Clone Robotics develops general-purpose anthropomorphic robots, including the Protoclone and Clone Alpha, with human-like articulation, synthetic organs, pneumatic or hydraulic actuation, and walking capability. Humanoids 100 rank 87 (score 53) 24 signals and 16 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}