Clone
Clone builds musculoskeletal androids driven by Myofiber artificial muscles rather than motors. Its biomimetic Clone Hand and bipedal Clone Alpha target everyday manipulation and household tasks, though the product is still in development and is not yet sold.
What is Clone?
Clone is a robotics company building musculoskeletal androids: machines whose natural-shaped skeletons are moved by artificial muscles instead of the electric motors and gearboxes used by most humanoid robots. The company's foundation is Myofiber, a proprietary artificial muscle fibre it pioneered in 2021. Each musculotendon unit attaches to anatomically accurate points on the bone and is produced as a single monolithic piece to remove tendon failure as a weak point. Clone publishes concrete targets for the technology: a response under 50 milliseconds, unloaded contraction above 30 percent, and at least one kilogram of contraction force from a single three-gram fibre.
The first product to come out of that work is the Clone Hand, presented after eight years of focused research and development as the most biomimetic hand ever created. It carries a faithful opposable thumb, which the company treats as the origin of human dexterity, and it is built to handle any manipulation task a person can. Its back-drivable antagonistic muscles give the index finger enough force to pull the trigger on a drill, while Myofiber proprioception supports fine, controlled movement. The palm is a rounded bowl rather than the rectangular block found on motor-driven hands, so objects close into a ball instead of a cylinder. Because the geometry follows human anatomy, the hand works with tools already shaped for human hands.
The second product is Clone Alpha, a bipedal android for the home, announced as a limited edition of 279 units. Clone describes it through four synthetic organ systems, muscular, skeletal, nervous and vascular, actuated with water and electricity and computed by an on-board GPU built for robotics. It is meant to be addressed in plain spoken English, and it ships with a training platform called Telekinesis so owners can teach it new skills beyond its pre-installed set of household tasks. A further concept, Neoclone, is presented as a longer-term vision and remains in development.
Clone is at an early commercial stage. The Terms of Use state that pre-order functionality is not currently available and that no sales or pre-order requests are handled through the site, and no price is published anywhere.
What it does
- Grasp and manipulate objects with a human-level opposable thumb
- Operate tools designed for human hands, including pulling a drill trigger
- Walk naturally on two legs
- Understand and answer spoken instructions in plain English
- Carry out household tasks such as vacuuming, folding laundry and loading the dishwasher
- Memorise a home's layout and a kitchen's inventory
- Learn new skills through the Telekinesis training platform
When to use Clone / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Clone is the right fit.
When to use Clone
- Robot-learning teams, who are explicitly invited to request access to a Clone Hand prototype
- AI and robotics researchers working on dexterous manipulation and embodied learning
- Mechanical and control engineers evaluating alternatives to motor-driven actuation
- Biomechanics specialists studying tendons, antagonistic muscles and proprioception
- University labs and materials researchers interested in published artificial-muscle specifications
When not to use Clone
- Anyone looking to buy a robot today: pre-orders are closed and the site handles no sales
- Buyers who need a price, since no figure is published anywhere on the site
- Developers expecting an API, an SDK or technical documentation
- Users looking for a web or mobile application, as this is a physical machine
- Organisations needing volume, given the 279-unit cap on Clone Alpha
How to use Clone
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Browse the product pages for the hand and the android to see what Clone has built
- Open the pre-order page to read the Clone Alpha specification and its 279-unit limit
- Note that pre-orders are not open: the Terms of Use state the site handles no sales
- Watch the demonstration videos linked from the hand page on Clone's YouTube channel
- Request access to a Clone Hand prototype through the careers and contact route
- Email clone@clonerobotics.com for any question about the company or its products
- Follow progress on Instagram, X, YouTube and LinkedIn
- Once an Alpha is delivered, speak to it in plain English
- Teach it additional skills with the bundled Telekinesis training platform
Pros & Cons
Pros
- A genuinely differentiated approach: artificial muscle instead of motors and gearboxes
- Published, quantified specifications rather than vague performance claims
- Hardware shaped to work with tools already designed for human hands
- Eight years of focused research and development behind the hand
- Complete and dated legal documents, both revised 2 July 2026
- A real European entity in Poland and a designated Article 27 GDPR representative
- An extensive library of public demonstration videos
Cons
- No price is published anywhere on the site
- The pre-order page still advertises 2025 pre-orders that the Terms of Use say are unavailable
- The product is in development and not commercially released
- Clone Alpha is capped at 279 units
- The research page is an empty placeholder
- No API, no SDK and no public technical documentation
- No contact page and no identified support channel
Pricing & Plans
Clone publishes no price. The Terms of Use dated 2 July 2026 state that sales are not facilitated through the site and that no purchase or pre-order requests are collected, so there is neither a free plan nor a paid entry point to report. A 2023 press article linked from the homepage mentions a manufacturing cost of about USD 2,800 for the hand, but that is a third-party figure about production cost and not a selling price set by Clone.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Clone handles your data.
GDPR overview
The privacy policy, last updated 2 July 2026, invokes the GDPR explicitly and identifies the Clone Group entities as controllers. Legal bases are given purpose by purpose, citing Article 6(1)(a) consent, 6(1)(c) legal obligation and 6(1)(f) legitimate interest. The policy lists rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection and withdrawal of consent, and names the supervisory authority as Poland's UODO. Clone states that no data protection officer has been appointed and directs privacy questions to admin@clonerobotics.com. Clone sp. z o.o. is designated as the Article 27 representative for Clone Incorporated. Transfers outside the EEA are covered by standard contractual clauses, Binding Corporate Rules or the Data Privacy Framework. A separate recruitment notice applies to EEA candidates.
Who owns the data?
Clone keeps ownership and control of the personal data it collects, and states that it does not sell, license or give away personal information, nor disclose it to a third party for that party's own use without permission or a legal obligation. The controllers are the two Clone Group entities, Clone Incorporated and Clone sp. z o.o. Data may be shared with corporate affiliates and with service providers, named or described as the recruitment platform Traffit, IT and hosting suppliers, and vendors handling email and postal correspondence. Those providers are contractually bound to equivalent protection. The site is informational, with no user account and no customer-generated content.
Reuse rights
The site gives visitors no right of commercial reuse. Clone states that it owns or licenses every intellectual property right in the site, including its software and published materials, and that all rights are reserved. A visitor may print one copy or download extracts of pages, strictly for personal reference. Any unauthorised use of illustrations, photographs, videos or trademarks is prohibited, and printing, copying or downloading material in breach of the Terms of Use immediately terminates the right to access and use the site. Because the site collects no user-generated content, no licence is granted back to users over any material of their own.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Clone gives a jurisdiction rather than a location. The privacy policy states that Clone Incorporated is a United States company and that personal information submitted to it may be processed in a foreign country whose privacy laws are less stringent than the user's own, including but not limited to the United States. Some service providers sit outside the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, and transfers to them are said to rely on standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, Processor Binding Corporate Rules, or membership of the Data Privacy Framework. Data is held on Clone's servers or those of its providers, with SSL protecting data in transit. No specific hosting country, region or data centre is named. The domain resolves to a Cloudflare anycast address, which identifies a content delivery node and says nothing about where data is actually stored.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Clone.
- The product is not commercially released: do not mistake a technology demonstration for availability
- With no published price, the real cost of ownership cannot be assessed
- The pre-order page carries an outdated 2025 date that the Terms of Use contradict
- A human-strength physical machine in a home carries genuine safety risk to people and property
- An android with sensors and a memory of your home raises privacy questions in the most intimate space
- Handing over domestic tasks can quietly erode practical skills and self-reliance
- A talking, human-shaped machine invites emotional attachment and the assumption of abilities it lacks
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
There is nothing to set up. The site is informational: no account, no software to install, no API to integrate. Because the android is not yet delivered, no commissioning procedure is documented anywhere. Clone describes interaction as requiring no technical skill at all, since the machine is addressed in plain spoken English, and it presents the Telekinesis platform as the route to teaching new skills. That platform has no public documentation, so the real difficulty of training a Clone cannot be judged from what is published today.
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Behind Clone
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Frequently asked questions
What is Clone?
Can I buy a Clone today?
How much does it cost?
What is Myofiber?
What can Clone Alpha actually do?
How many Clone Alpha units will be made?
How do I teach it new skills?
Is there an API or a mobile app?
What is the minimum age to use the site?
Who is behind Clone?
Should you pick Clone?
Clone is one of the few robotics companies making a genuinely different bet at the level of actuation. Where most humanoids move on motors and gearboxes, Clone moves on artificial muscle, and it backs that claim with published figures rather than adjectives: response under 50 milliseconds, contraction above 30 percent, a kilogram of force from a three-gram fibre. Eight years of work on the hand, a large library of demonstration videos, and a design that deliberately stays compatible with human tools all point to real engineering rather than a rendering.
What is missing is everything that turns engineering into a product a reader can act on. There is no price, anywhere. There is no way to buy: the Terms of Use dated 2 July 2026 state plainly that pre-order functionality is not available and that the site handles no sales. The pre-order page still advertises pre-orders as coming in 2025, a contradiction the company has not cleaned up. The research page is an empty placeholder, there is no API, no documentation, no contact page, and no support channel. Clone Alpha is capped at 279 units.
The legal side, by contrast, is unusually well kept for a company at this stage. Two entities are named with full addresses and registration numbers, the privacy policy is dated and detailed, an Article 27 representative is designated, and retention periods are spelled out. Read Clone today as a serious technology programme with an open invitation to robot-learning teams, not as a machine you can order. Anyone weighing a commitment should confirm current availability and pricing directly with the company.
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