The concept
Yesterday’s iconic robots. Today’s intelligence. Real motors, real movement, unmistakable character.
The collection
Two very different machines. Two ways to see what modern intelligence can do with familiar hardware.
A robot that looks, listens, and remembers.
Ask ROBIE Sr. what he sees and he can describe the scene through his camera. He also holds conversations and recalls past interactions—while keeping the personality of the original 1986 robot.
Explore ROBIE Sr.
A personality you can see in motion.
RSAP—our re-engineered RoboSapien X—does more than talk. He pairs natural conversation and memory with gestures, walking, and expressive body language.
Explore RSAPAbout Revenant Robotics
Reimagining Legacy Robotics
I grew up fascinated by science fiction and the future it promised.
Watching Star Wars, Star Trek, Buck Rogers, and Knight Rider, I imagined machines that could talk back, notice the world around them, and have personalities of their own. Years later, the question stayed with me: could the robots of yesterday finally become the intelligent companions the future had promised?
— Spiro Mandylor, Founder
Today, that childhood question guides the work at Revenant Robotics. Rather than start with a new machine, we work with the original motors, sensors, and mechanisms—and find out what intelligence can add.
Software alone isn’t the test. The challenge is making conversation, memory, and physical behaviour work on real machines, with all the mechanical limitations that come with them—not just on a screen.
Beyond these two robots, we want to explore applications such as helping an existing service robot understand its surroundings and interact more naturally with people—without replacing the mechanics that already work.
Our approach
The original hardware is part of the point. We work with each robot’s motors, mechanisms, and character, adding modern intelligence without pretending the machine is something it isn’t.
Every new ability has to work on the actual robot. Memory and feedback can shape later conversations, but autonomous behaviour stays within defined safeguards—not unsupervised roaming. This is what we mean by bounded cognitive autonomy.