THE HUMANOID FDE — FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEERS
Orboh is the humanoid FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer). Our engineers embed at your site, narrow the task, fix the workflow, and implement a humanoid for that specific job. Every deployment becomes data that makes the next one faster and cheaper.
DEMO VIDEO
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CONSTRUCTION SITE
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TRIAL FIELD
WHY FDE
Humanoid hardware, AI models, and robot OS are all reaching the market. But combining them does not make a robot work on a real site. Every site has its own layout, its own workflow, its own edge cases — each robot has to be finished on-site, one deployment at a time.
Autonomous driving reached the real world first through Waymo — by narrowing the environment and fixing the workflow. We apply the same playbook to humanoids: instead of waiting for one giant model to solve everything, our engineers narrow the task, fix the workflow, and implement.
A humanoid is a machine that can do the same general-purpose work a human can, regardless of whether it walks on two legs.
Orboh
FDE — we bridge this gap
Customer site
Factories and construction sites — the robot has to work reliably. Buying one is not enough.
THE IMPLEMENTATION GAP
Site-specific workflow design, implementation, and operation
Available on the market
OS
Robot software stacks
AI models (VLA)
General-purpose motor intelligence
Hardware
Commercial humanoid robots
HOW WE WORK — THE FDE MODEL
FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer) is the model that made complex software work inside real organizations. We bring it to humanoid robots.
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Our engineers work inside your site and your workflow, mapping tasks, constraints, and safety requirements where they actually happen. The people who build and the people who talk to you are the same.
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We fix the workflow and finish the humanoid for that specific task — collecting demonstrations by teleoperation and training motor skills with imitation learning (ACT), iterating on the floor until the work is done reliably.
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Robots run as a service, from implementation through operations and maintenance. Every deployment accumulates skills, failures, and procedures as data — making the next deployment faster and cheaper.
FIELD WORK — WHAT WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED
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At a farm in Kagoshima, a humanoid autonomously grasps and harvests okra. The motor skill was trained from human demonstrations with imitation learning (ACT) — the robot acts on its own, without teleoperation.
See humanoid robots in agriculture
COMMERCIAL MODEL — ROBOT-AS-A-SERVICE
No hardware purchase. No maintenance overhead. No facility modification. Orboh robots operate in the same human-designed environments your workers already use — scaffolding, stairs, and passageways.
No CapEx
Implementation to operations
Data compounds
No facility modification
DEV LOG — NOTES FROM DEVELOPMENT
What we tried, what broke, and how we fixed it on the way to putting a humanoid to work on a real site. Kota Ueda, CTO of Orboh, writes it up on note as the work happens.
Three months of okra harvesting with Toyota Auto Body Research, ending in an open field. What physical AI could and could not do yet, seen from both the design and the implementation side.
Kota Ueda
CTO, Orboh, Inc.
Two students joined the okra project for a fortnight after reading this blog. What we handed them, and what stuck, in a field with almost no prior literature.
Three classmates from Kyushu Institute of Technology who moved to San Francisco and founded Orboh — what we build, and the people we want building it with us back in Kyushu.
From a YouTube clip to a Unitree G1 dancing a Kagoshima folk dance: the whole pipeline, from extracting the motion to stabilising it in physics simulation.
dimOS, VLA (GR00T N1.6), world models, WBC. The humanoid software stack laid out layer by layer — what each part actually does, and where it hands off to the next.
COMMUNITY — HUMANOID HACKATHON
A humanoid hackathon series by Orboh. Developers from Japan and abroad build real apps on Unitree G1 humanoids — free to join.
TEAM
Founded by a team that spent four years building rockets together — integrating complex hardware and software end to end.
CEO
宮嶋 壯太
CTO
上田 康太
COO
内山 絢登
We offer live demos for construction and manufacturing teams. Talk to us about on-site deployment and RaaS.
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