A Swiss robot will work beside people, on wheels. The 95 per cent is the company’s

Embodied AI, a Lausanne company that came out of EPFL, said on 6 November that it was showing AIR at Humanoid Europe in Munich. Chief executive Francesco Stella was to present it. The machine has a body and two arms on a wheeled base. The company calls it a humanoid. It has no legs. Heavy parts sit in the torso. The arms are meant to give way when they touch a person, so the line needs no cage. Orders, the company says, open after the unveiling. Open is not a purchase order.

The 95 per cent is the company’s figure for paid pilots, an average task success rate, including work it describes as a leading consumer-electronics maker and a global automotive supplier. Neither firm is named. The same release says the software is already doing paid work in a two-arm cell on a customer’s line. A cell is not AIR, and an average with no count of tasks is not a shift. An investor, Angelo Burgarello of Look AI Ventures, said a 2 kilogram tendon-driven arm lifts 5 kilograms, can be deployed in a week, and reaches that 95 per cent within a month. That is an investor’s description of an arm. It is not a published payload for the whole robot. A close reading of the launch found no price and no delivery date.

The company says it wants a CE mark in 2027, when the EU machinery regulation takes effect on 20 January 2027. The conformity assessment is not finished. A date on a regulation is not a certificate.