Catalog Systems Vertical / domain-specific AI memory Sanctuary AI Carbon (Phoenix Gen 7/8)

Sanctuary AI Carbon (Phoenix Gen 7/8)

https://www.sanctuary.ai/

Carbon control system originally built for the Phoenix humanoid; company now sells it as hardware-agnostic Physical AI for existing industrial robots plus in-development hydraulic hands, with the Phoenix humanoid no longer featured.

Active · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 28 cited facts, 3 with a third-party source · Suggest a correction

At a glance

Type
Cognitive architecture with explicit task memory vendor fix
Tier
T1
Section
Vertical / domain-specific AI memory
Created
2018 (Sanctuary AI founded 2018 by Geordie Rose et al.; Vancouver Canada) third-party fix
Latest release
not applicable — not OSS fix
License
not applicable — not OSS fix
GitHub
not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
Pricing
Est. starting ~$65000 USD (configuration-dependent) third-party fix
Funding
$58M total Strategic · 2024-07 vendor fix
Freshness
2026-10-29 fix
Layer
agent-infra repo fix
Licensing
commercial third-party fix

Memory 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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