Sanctuary AI Carbon (Phoenix Gen 7/8)
Mirrors human cognitive functions: explicit memory, vision, hearing, tactile. Translates natural-language instructions into actions with explainable intermediate reasoning. Memory stores task procedures so learned skills are reusable across sessions without retraining.
At a glance
- Type
- Cognitive architecture with explicit task memory
- Tier
- T1
- Created
- 2018 (Sanctuary AI founded 2018 by Geordie Rose et al.; Vancouver Canada)
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- Est. starting ~$65000 USD (configuration-dependent)
- Funding
- $58M total Strategic · 2024-07
Taxonomy
- storage
- kv
- retrieval
- agentic
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- extraction
- unit
- episode
- governance
- opaque
- conflict
- none
When to use
Optimised for: real-time perception + spatial reasoning + multi-modal sensor fusion
Anti-fit: not for non-embodied / non-physical use cases
Pros & cons
Pros
Cognitive-architecture-inspired robot memory with explicit task-procedure store; humanoid platform with growing commercial deployment.
Cons
Robot-specific (Phoenix platform); commercial deployment is early; generalization across embodiments is unproven.
Claims & capabilities
110+ tasks in commercial deployment. ~40% of typical retail-store tasks covered. Task-onboarding reduced from weeks (2024) to <24h (Mar 2025).
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- searched not found
- Deployment
- Hardware deployment at customer sites
- Embedding model
- searched not found
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- no MCP support advertised — vertical product, no MCP server / client integration documented
- A2A
- no A2A protocol support advertised — vertical product, no A2A integration documented
- OpenTelemetry
- no OpenTelemetry integration advertised — vendor logs/observability not publicly documented
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