We’ve seen TRON 1 – the world’s first modular foot-end bipedal robot - get kicked and shoved a lot in the name of science. In the woods, during LimX’s multi-terrain mobility test, and again at ICRA2025 last week - the little bot took it like a real champ. But no matter how many times it rebalances that 33-inch, 20kg frame, something about watching it flinch after a shove still makes you feel...uneasy.
And yet, logically, all you should feel is awe. TRON 1 is a feat of robotic engineering, designed specifically for researchers and developers to ease the entry to humanoid research. For a (relatively) modest $15k, you get a robot that can switch from point-feet to flat-footed walking to zipping along on two wheels. The education version with open SDK and low-level control is priced at $30k. It rolls, hops, spins, climbs — and yes, even walks dogs or moonlights as a photographer. Seriously.
If you missed ICRA, no worries. EnduX will be demoing TRON 1 at the Humanoids Summit London on May 29–30. Come say hi — unless you’re planning on kicking him.
TRON 1 runs on a 12th-gen Intel Core i3 processor with 16GB of RAM, controllable via remote or Python. Its plug-and-play R&D environment makes reinforcement learning, locomotion, control, and all sorts of research surprisingly accessible — no complex programming skills required.
But TRON 1 doesn’t stop there. LimX Dynamics has released three sets of expansion kits with a robotic arm, a voice interaction unit with preinstalled LLM, and a sensing unit with a Lidar and an additional depth camera, opening up even more research possibilities. Even better? Later this year, we will start distributing in Europe CL-3 — a full-size humanoid with advanced locomotion and high DoF which you can graduate your TRON algorithms to. This makes TRON not just a mighty little bot, but a perfect gateway to next-gen humanoid research.
So yes, come meet TRON 1. Just tread carefully. We can’t promise CL-3 won’t remember.
