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  "segment": "canada-latam",
  "companies": [
    {
      "company": "AXIBO",
      "hq_country": "Canada",
      "website": "https://www.axibo.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "AXIBO AI humanoid platform (model name not verified) — modular general-purpose work robot under development",
      "founded_year": 2019,
      "source_url": "https://news.mcmaster.ca/engineering-graduates-robotics-startup-axibo-raises-12m/",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "Funded humanoid development program, but a publicly shown complete prototype was not verified: McMaster's May 2025 report targeted an early-2026 unveiling, while the current official site still describes the development mission."
    },
    {
      "company": "B drive",
      "hq_country": "Mexico",
      "website": "https://bdrive.ai/",
      "humanoid_product": "Sara — publicly presented bipedal humanoid intended for programmable workplace assistance",
      "founded_year": 2016,
      "source_url": "https://municipiodequeretaro.gob.mx/destaca-felifer-macias-innovacion-tecnologica-que-se-desarrolla-en-queretaro/",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "Municipal announcement credits B-Drive with creating Sara, but original body design/manufacture versus integration of another manufacturer's robot is unverified; founding year and Mexican headquarters: https://mx.linkedin.com/company/bdrivemx."
    },
    {
      "company": "Bioztronics",
      "hq_country": "Venezuela",
      "website": "https://www.bioztronics.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "OJAF — locally assembled humanoid prototype for interaction and industrial robotics development",
      "founded_year": 2018,
      "source_url": "https://ve.linkedin.com/company/bioztronics",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "Company identifies an assembled humanoid, but the reviewed official OJAF photograph shows a head and torso; a complete two-arm body on legs or wheels is unverified: https://www.bioztronics.com/."
    },
    {
      "company": "Dr Robot",
      "hq_country": "Canada",
      "website": "https://www.drrobot.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "H20 — 1.4-metre wheeled humanoid with dual arms and an animated camera head for research and service applications",
      "founded_year": 2001,
      "source_url": "https://www.drrobot.com/products_h20.asp",
      "include": "yes",
      "note": "Manufacturer documents its own complete H20 and offers it for order; this is a legacy research platform, with current shipment volumes unverified. Founding year and Richmond Hill headquarters: https://www.azorobotics.com/Suppliers.aspx?SupplierID=1411."
    },
    {
      "company": "EZ-Robot",
      "hq_country": "Canada",
      "website": "https://www.ez-robot.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "JD Humanoid — programmable 33-centimetre bipedal educational robot kit",
      "founded_year": 2011,
      "source_url": "https://www.ez-robot.com/store/p5/humanoid-robotics-kit.html",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "JD is below the 60-centimetre educational-robot cutoff; an own-design larger complete humanoid product was not verified. Founding year and Calgary headquarters: https://robottoday.com/suppliers-discovery/ez-robot-ca."
    },
    {
      "company": "Glexco Robotics and Automation",
      "hq_country": "Peru",
      "website": "https://glexrobotics.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "Xpertus — 1.8-metre mobile humanoid with articulated arms for service interaction and programmable robotics research",
      "founded_year": null,
      "source_url": "https://glexrobotics.com/producto/xpertus/",
      "include": "yes",
      "note": "Official product page identifies a Peru-created robot with navigation, articulated arms and an open-source research version; company founding year was not verified."
    },
    {
      "company": "Inbiodroid",
      "hq_country": "Mexico",
      "website": "https://inbiodroid.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "Prometheus 3.0 — two-arm humanoid avatar for remotely performing work through anthropomorphic teleoperation",
      "founded_year": null,
      "source_url": "https://conecta.tec.mx/es/noticias/leon/emprendedores/como-avatar-exatec-desarrollan-robot-para-personas-con-discapacidad",
      "include": "yes",
      "note": "June 2025 report confirms the third prototype and identifies Inbiodroid as a startup based at the CIEN technology park in León; the university-origin project is now held by the company. Company founding year was not verified."
    },
    {
      "company": "InDro Robotics",
      "hq_country": "Canada",
      "website": "https://indrorobotics.ca/",
      "humanoid_product": "Axiom — human-height dual-arm research platform with telescoping torso, caster base and top-mounted depth camera",
      "founded_year": null,
      "source_url": "https://indrorobotics.ca/category/indro-axiom/",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "Own humanoid-style research platform has passive caster wheels and a camera rather than a distinct articulated head; powered mobile-base integration is optional. Canadian location: https://indrorobotics.ca/robotics-innovators/; founding year unresolved."
    },
    {
      "company": "LAIDETEC",
      "hq_country": "Mexico",
      "website": "https://www.laidetec.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "Centurión — wheeled two-arm service humanoid for home assistance, reception and business tasks",
      "founded_year": 2019,
      "source_url": "https://www.gaceta.unam.mx/empresa-incubada-en-la-unam-crea-robot-capacitado-para-ser-vendedor-estrella/",
      "include": "yes",
      "note": "UNAM's report explicitly describes company-designed head, torso, articulated arms and wheeled base, including object grasping and programmable home tasks; company registered in April 2019."
    },
    {
      "company": "Mirsee Robotics",
      "hq_country": "Canada",
      "website": "https://www.mirsee.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "MH3 — third-generation humanoid for remotely performing hazardous and physically demanding industrial work",
      "founded_year": 2017,
      "source_url": "https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/cambridge-robotics-firm-brings-commercial-humanoids-closer-to-reality-11102729",
      "include": "yes",
      "note": "On-site reporting identifies the Cambridge, Ontario company as a designer and assembler of its own MH3 humanoid, with applications including critical infrastructure and water-treatment operations."
    },
    {
      "company": "Octopy",
      "hq_country": "Mexico",
      "website": "https://octopy.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "AwesomeLY — wheeled humanoid waiter with arms, expressive face and touchscreen",
      "founded_year": null,
      "source_url": "https://dplnews.com/mexico-i-sirve-restaurante-hamburguesas-con-un-robot/",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "Mexican company is credited with developing the deployed humanoid, but the cited evidence establishes specialized restaurant service rather than general-purpose manipulation; company founding year was not verified."
    },
    {
      "company": "Realbotix",
      "hq_country": "Canada",
      "website": "https://www.realbotix.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "Echo / full-body Realbotix robots — humanlike social humanoids for service-sector interaction",
      "founded_year": null,
      "source_url": "https://www.realbotix.com/about",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "Geographic and functional borderline: parent corporate contact address is Toronto (https://realbotix.ai/contact-us), while robot-building Realbotix LLC is Nevada-based; general-purpose physical work is unverified and founding year is unresolved across the rebranded parent and subsidiary."
    },
    {
      "company": "Robotics Creators Bolivia",
      "hq_country": "Bolivia",
      "website": "",
      "humanoid_product": "Royx — approximately 1.73-metre humanoid interaction prototype built in Achocalla",
      "founded_year": null,
      "source_url": "https://www.atb.com.bo/2026/07/24/roly-mamani-el-ingeniero-boliviano-que-creo-a-wall%C2%B7e-y-desarrolla-un-robot-humanoide-con-ia/",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "Commercial workshop makes custom robots and has shown functional Royx head/arm movement, but general-purpose task capability and the required mobile body configuration remain unverified; official standalone website and founding year were not verified."
    },
    {
      "company": "Roomie",
      "hq_country": "Mexico",
      "website": "https://roomie-it.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "Roomie Bot — locally developed wheeled AI assistant for homes and businesses",
      "founded_year": 2014,
      "source_url": "https://forbes.com.mx/los-mexicanos-que-buscan-1mdd-para-llevar-un-mayordomo-robot-las-casas/",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "Reported and pictured as a humanoid-form assistant, but the reviewed Roomie Bot has no two-arm body; founding year is 2014, distinct from the robot's 2016 development: https://forbes.com.mx/roomie-la-fabricacion-de-robots-a-la-mexicana/."
    },
    {
      "company": "Sanctuary AI",
      "hq_country": "Canada",
      "website": "https://sanctuary.ai/",
      "humanoid_product": "Phoenix Generation 8 — general-purpose humanoid for work and embodied-AI training",
      "founded_year": 2018,
      "source_url": "https://sanctuary.ai/news/sanctuary-ai-unveils-the-next-generation-of-ai-robotics/",
      "include": "yes",
      "note": "Vancouver builder; cited page gives founding year and documents Phoenix hardware, and its related-news section identifies Generation 8. Generation 8 has a wheeled base: https://sanctuary.ai/news/sanctuary-ai-releases-new-generation-of-ai-robots-for-high-quality-data-capture/."
    },
    {
      "company": "SIMA Robot",
      "hq_country": "Chile",
      "website": "https://simarobot.com/",
      "humanoid_product": "SIMA Robot / SIMA Care XL — small social humanoids with moving arms and legs for education and care interaction",
      "founded_year": null,
      "source_url": "https://simarobot.com/producto/sima-xl/",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "Educational/social robot maker that prints and assembles its robots in Chile; no qualifying model at least 60 centimetres tall was verified, and the XL page does not publish height. Company founding year was not verified."
    },
    {
      "company": "Tinbot Robotics",
      "hq_country": "Brazil",
      "website": "https://tinbot.com.br/",
      "humanoid_product": "Tinbot / u-Robot — programmable desktop humanoid torsos for conversational customer interaction",
      "founded_year": null,
      "source_url": "https://tinbot.com.br/u-robot-robo-com-inteligencia-artificial/",
      "include": "borderline",
      "note": "Maringá-based maker's shown products are desktop interaction torsos; a complete general-purpose humanoid on legs or wheels, or a qualifying larger model, was not verified. Company founding year was not verified."
    }
  ],
  "sources_checked": [
    "https://sanctuary.ai/news/sanctuary-ai-unveils-the-next-generation-of-ai-robotics/",
    "https://sanctuary.ai/news/sanctuary-ai-releases-new-generation-of-ai-robots-for-high-quality-data-capture/",
    "https://sanctuary.ai/about-us/",
    "https://www.mirsee.com/",
    "https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/local-news/cambridge-robotics-firm-brings-commercial-humanoids-closer-to-reality-11102729",
    "https://www.drrobot.com/",
    "https://www.drrobot.com/products.asp",
    "https://www.drrobot.com/products_h20.asp",
    "https://www.azorobotics.com/Suppliers.aspx?SupplierID=1411",
    "https://www.axibo.com/",
    "https://www.axibo.com/history",
    "https://news.mcmaster.ca/engineering-graduates-robotics-startup-axibo-raises-12m/",
    "https://indrorobotics.ca/axiom/",
    "https://indrorobotics.ca/meet-the-new-indro-axiom-humanoid-style-research-robot/",
    "https://indrorobotics.ca/category/indro-axiom/",
    "https://indrorobotics.ca/robotics-innovators/",
    "https://www.ez-robot.com/",
    "https://www.ez-robot.com/store/p5/humanoid-robotics-kit.html",
    "https://www.ez-robot.com/about-ez-robot.html",
    "https://www.ez-robot.com/contact-us.html",
    "https://robottoday.com/suppliers-discovery/ez-robot-ca",
    "https://www.realbotix.com/",
    "https://www.realbotix.com/about",
    "https://realbotix.ai/contact-us",
    "https://realbotix.ai/news/realbotix-corp-announces-the-sale-of-realbotix-llc-subsidiary-to-a-nasdaq-listed-issuer",
    "https://www.humanoidhub.ai/brands",
    "https://humanoidanalytics.com/humanoid-company-tracker/",
    "https://inbiodroid.com/",
    "https://conecta.tec.mx/es/noticias/leon/emprendedores/como-avatar-exatec-desarrollan-robot-para-personas-con-discapacidad",
    "https://www.gaceta.unam.mx/empresa-incubada-en-la-unam-crea-robot-capacitado-para-ser-vendedor-estrella/",
    "https://forbes.com.mx/roomie-la-fabricacion-de-robots-a-la-mexicana/",
    "https://forbes.com.mx/los-mexicanos-que-buscan-1mdd-para-llevar-un-mayordomo-robot-las-casas/",
    "https://roomie-it.com/",
    "https://dplnews.com/mexico-i-sirve-restaurante-hamburguesas-con-un-robot/",
    "https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/arteseideas/NoBot-un-droide-ideal-para-atencion-al-publico-20210629-0083.html",
    "https://bdrive.ai/",
    "https://bdrive.ai/nosotros",
    "https://mx.linkedin.com/company/bdrivemx",
    "https://municipiodequeretaro.gob.mx/destaca-felifer-macias-innovacion-tecnologica-que-se-desarrolla-en-queretaro/",
    "https://glexrobotics.com/producto/xpertus/",
    "https://www.humandro-id.com/",
    "https://www.neuratork.com/",
    "https://creabot.gt/",
    "https://creabot.gt/nosotros/",
    "https://www.humanrobotics.ai/",
    "https://www.humanrobotics.ai/post/o-que-%C3%A9-o-robios-e-o-que-ele-faz-1",
    "https://www.humanrobotics.ai/android",
    "https://tinbot.com.br/",
    "https://tinbot.com.br/nossos-robos/",
    "https://tinbot.com.br/u-robot-robo-com-inteligencia-artificial/",
    "https://tinbot.com.br/en/home-english/",
    "https://simarobot.com/producto/sima-xl/",
    "https://www.atb.com.bo/2026/07/24/roly-mamani-el-ingeniero-boliviano-que-creo-a-wall%C2%B7e-y-desarrolla-un-robot-humanoide-con-ia/",
    "https://www.bioztronics.com/",
    "https://ve.linkedin.com/company/bioztronics"
  ]
}
