About Prometheus Engineering
Prometheus Engineering Kft., based in Budapest, Hungary, is building an affordable bimanual humanoid robot for industrial manipulation tasks in European factories. Founded by Ilya Pavlenkov, the company focuses on real-world deployments over showcases.
The robot is deliberately designed without legs — a stationary or rail-mounted platform. This approach enables a simpler certification path (CE as a bimanual industrial machine), better stability, and significantly lower cost.
The system learns tasks from human demonstrations via teleoperation and imitation learning / VLA models, with an SDK for integration. Designed for affordability — customer payback is typically under one year compared to manual labor.
First pilot underway: end-of-line functional testing at a Tier-1 automotive plant in the EU — real hands-on deployment experience and lessons learned to be shared at the Advanced Humanoid Forum 2027.
Bimanual Humanoid Robot
Bimanual Manipulation
Two-arm platform
Stationary / rail-mounted
CE certified as industrial machine
Better stability & lower cost
Imitation Learning
Learn from humans
Teleoperation + VLA models
SDK for integration
Adaptive task execution
Affordable
ROI < 1 year
Fraction of typical cost
Payback vs. manual labor
Europe-first approach
Key Technologies
Teleoperation & Imitation Learning
The robot learns tasks from human demonstrations using teleoperation and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. An SDK enables seamless integration into existing production workflows.
Stationary / Rail-Mounted Platform
Deliberately no legs — simplifying certification (CE as bimanual industrial machine), improving stability, reducing cost, and making the robot production-ready today.
Full-Stack Engineering
The team designs and builds the robot's hardware, electronics, and ML stack in-house — enabling tight integration and rapid iteration from prototype to production.
First Pilot — Tier-1 Automotive
Prometheus Engineering's first pilot is currently underway: end-of-line functional testing at a Tier-1 automotive plant in the EU. This real-world deployment provides valuable hands-on experience and lessons learned — to be shared at the Advanced Humanoid Forum 2027.
Automotive supplier
End-of-line functional testing
European production plant
Prometheus Engineering at the Advanced Humanoid Forum 2027
The company will share real-world insights from its automotive pilot and showcase its approach to affordable industrial humanoids:
- Presentation on the first automotive pilot — lessons learned
- Affordable humanoid design approach
- Teleoperation + imitation learning workflow
- Expert session with founder Ilya Pavlenkov
🎤 Speaker: Ilya Pavlenkov NEW
Ilya Pavlenkov
Founder & CEO/CTO · Prometheus Engineering
Ilya Pavlenkov is the founder of Prometheus Engineering — his third company with over 10 years of entrepreneurial track record in tech. Previously, he founded Jetlex (VC-backed ML service for automated accounting) and Cucomm (bootstrapped sales-automation software).
A software engineer by background, Ilya personally designs and builds the robot's hardware, electronics, and ML stack together with a small engineering team. He built his first online business at age 13.
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Unlike many humanoid robots, Prometheus Engineering deliberately builds a stationary/rail-mounted bimanual platform — no legs. This simplifies certification (CE as a bimanual industrial machine), improves stability, and significantly reduces cost while being production-ready today.
The robot learns from human demonstrations through teleoperation and imitation learning using Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. An SDK enables integration into existing production workflows.
The robot is designed for affordability — a fraction of the cost of typical humanoid platforms. Customer payback is typically under one year compared to manual labor.
A first pilot is currently underway: end-of-line functional testing at a Tier-1 automotive plant in the EU. The team is gaining real-world deployment experience and will share lessons learned at AHF 2027.