aid: sanctuary-ai
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.
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/124412682?v=4
url: https://github.com/api-evangelist/sanctuary-ai
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
tags:
  - Robotics
  - Humanoid Robots
  - General-Purpose Robots
  - Embodied AI
  - Industrial Robotics
  - Manufacturing
  - Automotive
  - Logistics
  - Phoenix
  - Carbon AI
  - Dexterous Manipulation
  - Hardware
  - Vancouver
apis: []
common:
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/sanctuary-ai-domain-security.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://sanctuary.ai
  - type: Technology
    url: https://sanctuary.ai/technology/
  - type: AboutUs
    url: https://sanctuary.ai/about/
  - type: News
    url: https://sanctuary.ai/news/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://sanctuary.ai/blog/
  - type: Careers
    url: https://sanctuary.ai/careers/
  - type: ContactUs
    url: https://sanctuary.ai/contact-us/
  - type: IPNotice
    url: https://sanctuary.ai/ip-notice/
  - type: Terms
    url: https://sanctuary.ai/terms/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://sanctuary.ai/privacy-policy/
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/Sanctuary-AI
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sanctuary-cognitive-systems-corporation
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/TheSanctuaryAI
  - type: Instagram
    url: https://www.instagram.com/thesanctuaryai/
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-type: company
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: no-apis
x-public-apis: false
x-developer-portal: false
x-openapi: false
x-asyncapi: false
x-sdk: false
x-cli: false
x-webhooks: false
x-status-page: false
x-changelog: false
x-pricing-page: false
x-rss: false
x-github-org: https://github.com/Sanctuary-AI
x-github-org-public-repos: 0
x-headquarters: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
x-founders:
  - James Wells (CEO)
  - Olivia Norton (Co-Founder, CTO & CPO)
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.