Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver, British Columbia humanoid robotics company on a mission to create and deploy industrial-grade general-purpose humanoid robots to help address growing labor challenges. Its flagship product is Phoenix, a bipedal humanoid robot designed for dull, dirty, and dangerous work in automotive, manufacturing, and logistics environments. Phoenix is driven by Carbon, Sanctuary AI's proprietary AI control system that mimics human cognitive subsystems — memory, sight, sound, and touch — to translate natural-language tasks into dexterous physical actions. The company is vertically integrated, designing everything from motors and actuators through to generative AI algorithms in-house. Co-founded by James Wells (CEO) and Olivia Norton (CTO/CPO), Sanctuary AI has a private GitHub organization with no public repositories, no developer portal, no public API, no SDK, and no published OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specifications. The commercial model is hardware sales and enterprise deployments; Carbon is a proprietary on-board system and there is no public developer surface.
Sanctuary AI is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Robotics, Humanoid Robots, General-Purpose Robots, Embodied AI, and Industrial Robotics.
The Sanctuary AI catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.
Sanctuary AI’s developer surface includes product news, engineering blog, terms of service, and 12 more developer resources.
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name: Sanctuary AI
description: Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver, British Columbia humanoid robotics company on a mission to create and deploy industrial-grade
general-purpose humanoid robots to help address growing labor challenges. Its flagship product is Phoenix, a bipedal humanoid
robot designed for dull, dirty, and dangerous work in automotive, manufacturing, and logistics environments. Phoenix is
driven by Carbon, Sanctuary AI's proprietary AI control system that mimics human cognitive subsystems — memory, sight, sound,
and touch — to translate natural-language tasks into dexterous physical actions. The company is vertically integrated, designing
everything from motors and actuators through to generative AI algorithms in-house. Co-founded by James Wells (CEO) and Olivia
Norton (CTO/CPO), Sanctuary AI has a private GitHub organization with no public repositories, no developer portal, no public
API, no SDK, and no published OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specifications. The commercial model is hardware sales and enterprise deployments;
Carbon is a proprietary on-board system and there is no public developer surface.
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source:
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generated: '2026-08-28'
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accessModel:
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- General-Purpose Robots
- Embodied AI
- Industrial Robotics
- Manufacturing
- Automotive
- Logistics
- Phoenix
- Carbon AI
- Dexterous Manipulation
- Hardware
- Vancouver
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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x-products:
- name: Phoenix
description: Industrial-grade general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot
- name: Carbon
description: Proprietary AI control system mimicking human cognitive subsystems (memory, sight, sound, touch)
x-research-notes: As of 2026-05, sanctuary.ai's homepage, technology, about, news, blog, and careers pages contain no developer
portal, no public API documentation, no SDKs, no CLI, no webhooks, no public OpenAPI/AsyncAPI specifications, no status
page, no changelog, and no published pricing. The Sanctuary-AI GitHub organization (github.com/Sanctuary-AI, created 2023-02-04)
exists but has 0 public repositories, 0 followers, and 0 public gists. Sanctuary AI is vertically integrated and treats
its Carbon AI control system and Phoenix robot software stack as proprietary on-board systems. The commercial model is hardware
sales and enterprise deployment partnerships rather than a developer/API surface. No artifacts (openapi/, asyncapi/, json-schema/,
json-structure/, json-ld/, examples/, rules/, capabilities/, vocabulary/, plans/, rate-limits/, finops/, crd/) were generated
for this repository because there is no underlying public API surface to back them.
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