Company record
Noble Machines
Updated November 9, 2026 · Presspool
Noble Machines, formerly Under Control Robotics, is a Sunnyvale company building Moby, a rugged bipedal humanoid robot for construction, energy, mining and factory work. noblemachines.ai
Funding
No announced financing found in the public record.
Whether AI names Noble Machines
- On the Humanoid robots map: named or cited in 0 of 48 answers to Presspool's Humanoid robots questions on November 9, 2026 (ChatGPT 0 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 0 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 8). See the map. AI named or cited 24 of the 31 companies on the map in that sample; Noble Machines was not one of them. AI names these companies most on Humanoid robots questions: Unitree (40 of 48), Agility Robotics (37 of 48), Figure (36 of 48), Apptronik (26 of 48) and UBTech Robotics (26 of 48).
- On the Physical AI map: named or cited in 1 of 48 answers to Presspool's Physical AI questions on November 9, 2026 (ChatGPT 0 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 1 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 8). See the map. Of the 53 companies on the map, Noble Machines ranked joint 26th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on Physical AI questions: Figure (36 of 48), Agility Robotics (31 of 48), 1X (25 of 48), Apptronik (25 of 48) and Physical Intelligence (25 of 48). Most often named in the same answers: 1X (1), AgiBot (1), Agility Robotics (1), Apptronik (1), Astribot (1).
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Noble Machines in each weekly sample of Presspool's Humanoid robots and Physical AI questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week. Copilot answers count through November 2, 2026, the last day Copilot answered. Copilot is no longer asked, so later weeks are not counted on the same apps as earlier ones.
| Week of | Humanoid robots | Physical AI |
|---|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | Not sampled | 0 of 38 |
| October 5, 2026 | Not sampled | 0 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | Not sampled | 1 of 53 |
| October 19, 2026 | 0 of 53 | 0 of 54 |
| October 26, 2026 | 0 of 56 | 0 of 55 |
| November 2, 2026 | 0 of 51 | 1 of 49 |
| November 9, 2026 | 0 of 48 | 1 of 48 |
Related records
Also on the Humanoid robots map: 1X, AeiROBOT, AgiBot, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Astribot, Booster Robotics, Clone Robotics, Dexmate, Donut Robotics, EngineAI, Engineered Arts and 18 more on the map.
Also on the Physical AI map: 1X, AeiROBOT, AgiBot, Agile Robots, Agility Robotics, Aleph, Apptronik, ASI, Astribot, Bedrock Robotics, Booster Robotics, Clone Robotics and 40 more on the map.