BEIJING, Aug. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Fourier unveiled GR-3, its first full-size "Care-bot" and the latest entry in its GRx humanoid series. Designed not just for functionality but for emotional connection, GR-3 introduces a new class of AI robots created for human-centrics scenarios. Guided by the philosophy "Love, above all functionality," GR-3 redefines how humans interact with machines. Its soft-touch outer shell and multimodal emotional interaction system bring the concept of "warm tech companionship" to life—bridging the gap between mechanical utility and emotional presence.
Beyond Function: A Humanoid Designed to Care
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Meet GR-3: Beyond Function, Designed to Care. Fourier to Unveil Its First Care-Centric Humanoid
Meet GR-3: Beyond Function, Designed to Care. Fourier to Unveil Its First Care-Centric Humanoid
Meet GR-3: Beyond Function, Designed to Care. Fourier to Unveil Its First Care-Centric Humanoid
Meet GR-3: Beyond Function, Designed to Care. Fourier to Unveil Its First Care-Centric Humanoid
GR-3 represents a step forward from traditional utility-focused robots. Designed with a focus on human-centered service, Fourier introduces new concept of the "Care-bot"—a machine built not just to perform tasks, but to form connections.
The Care-bot concept is built around two primary roles. As a social companion, GR-3 is designed to engage with people in public settings. It can act as a service assistant, a comforting presence for children, or a responsive companion for older adults.
In the future, GR-3 is expected to expand into assistive care. Potential applications include mobility support, health monitoring, and physical rehabilitation in eldercare or clinical settings.
With GR-3, Fourier moves closer to its vision of a robot that not only works—but also cares.
Engineering Warmth: Soft Design, Smart Technology
GR-3 departs from traditional industrial aesthetics, embracing a softer, more lifelike appearance. Its warm, neutral tones, cushioned surfaces, and premium automotive upholstery create a friendly, approachable presence designed for everyday human interaction.
Standing 165 centimeters tall and weighing 71 kilograms, GR-3 offers up to 55 degrees of freedom. Its compact, modular architecture integrates essential sensors and computing units while maintaining a clean, streamlined exterior. Expressive design features—such as balanced limb proportions, fluid movement, and an animated facial interface—work together to foster user comfort and trust.
Equipped with a hot-swappable battery system and intelligent power management, GR-3 supports uninterrupted, around-the-clock operation in real-world environments.
Multimodal Perception: A New Standard in Emotional Interaction
GR-3 is equipped with Fourier's proprietary Full-Perception Multimodal Interaction System, integrating vision, audio, and tactile feedback into a unified real-time emotional processing engine.
Powered by an advanced attention management system, the robot dynamically prioritizes sensory inputs and synchronizes multimodal outputs to deliver smooth, humanlike responses:
Audio Perception: A four-microphone array enables omnidirectional voice activation, echo cancellation, and precise sound source localization. GR-3 orients toward speakers with synchronized eye contact, enhancing natural vocal interaction.
Visual Recognition: The robot's RGB and structured-light camera module provides reliable facial recognition and dynamic tracking, keeping users within GR-3's expressive visual field.
Tactile Feedback: Thirty-one distributed pressure sensors enable real-time touch detection. Combined with animated micro-expressions—including blinking, eye tracking, and emotion-triggered gestures—GR-3 responds to touch with lifelike social cues.
The dual-path response architecture supports both rapid reflexive actions ("fast thinking") via rule-based control and deep contextual understanding ("slow thinking") powered by a large language model for complex, situational dialogue generation.
GR-3 interprets emotion, recognizes intent, and responds with awareness—bridging the gap between perception and connection.
Built to Empower: A Softer Presence of Intelligent Agents
Beyond emotional intelligence, GR-3 features enhanced hardware and character-rich locomotion—enabling more intuitive and lifelike interactions at every touchpoint.
Drawing on training data and market feedback from its predecessors, the whole-body structure of GR-3 has been redesigned for greater flexibility and a more compact form. It features Fourier's high-performance actuators and 12-DoF dexterous hands, supporting a wide range of tasks from interaction and navigation to practical assistance.
GR-3 delivers versatile motion capabilities, with a standard walking gait that supports bending and squatting. It enables agile movement in complex environments and seamless multi-task collaboration. It can shift between various modes, from a straight-leg gait and running to an energy-saving "fatigue mode" and a lively "bouncy walk" for dynamic scenarios.
Fourier prioritizes developer experience. Built as an embodied intelligence platform, GR-3 supports a wide range of algorithms and third-party applications. Its client-server architecture allows researchers, automation engineers and AI developers to get started quickly and tailor functions for real-world use. Fourier will introduce interaction APIs to further lower the barrier to entry and enable more personalized, emotionally responsive applications.
Where Connection Matters: A Breakthrough of Humanoid Innovation
GR-3 marks a new phase in Fourier's pursuit of human-robot integration. Every aspect of its design—from hardware architecture to software framework—was shaped by a key question: Can a robot be genuinely accepted in human environments?
As Fourier's most advanced response to date, GR-3 goes beyond performance. It's built to support meaningful interaction across diverse real-world settings, from public services and academic research to clinical use and, eventually, personal spaces. Designed to operate alongside people, the robot adapts to evolving needs and complex environments.
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Meet GR-3: Beyond Function, Designed to Care. Fourier to Unveil Its First Care-Centric Humanoid
Meet GR-3: Beyond Function, Designed to Care. Fourier to Unveil Its First Care-Centric Humanoid
Meet GR-3: Beyond Function, Designed to Care. Fourier to Unveil Its First Care-Centric Humanoid
Meet GR-3: Beyond Function, Designed to Care. Fourier to Unveil Its First Care-Centric Humanoid
Transaction Enhances MRO Scale, AOG Readiness, and Lubricants Market Leadership
ARLINGTON, Texas, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- GracoRoberts (gracoroberts.com) today announced the acquisition of Sky Mart (skymart.aero) to advance its international footprint in Latin America, leveraging the company's corporate headquarters in Miami as a gateway to the aerospace-rich Latin American region. The acquisition significantly bolsters GracoRoberts' reach into the $6.5B Latin American MRO market, scales its AOG capability, and offers its customers access to a considerable breadth of in-stock lubricants, amplifying the acquirer's already sound position as the largest, fastest, and most technically focused aerospace specialty chemicals distributor in the world.
The addition of Sky Mart to the GracoRoberts' portfolio expands its technical sales coverage throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Florida, and portions of the US, while adding an additional 42,000 square feet of fulfillment centers in Miami, FL, San Antonio, TX, and Indianapolis, IN, and offering a rich stocking position for oils, greases, and fluids. Additionally, Sky Mart customers will benefit from access to GracoRoberts' extensive breadth of adhesives, composites, paints and coatings, a robust ecommerce presence for immediate product access, and a global technical sales team. These enhancements, coupled with a mutual focus on world-class quality, will add meaningful value to both companies' customer and supplier partners.
Jason Caldwell, President and CEO of GracoRoberts, commented on the acquisition. "We are thrilled to welcome the team from Sky Mart to the GracoRoberts' family of companies. This partnership strengthens our ability to serve the global aerospace community, especially in the important Latin America and Miami markets, with an enhanced stocking position, broader product offerings, and a scalable bolt-on ecommerce presence and AOG platform for an industry that requires speed and dependability."
Juan Gregorio Robbin, Co-Founder and President of Sky Mart, also commented on the integration, and the decision to partner with GracoRoberts after four decades of family-owned operation. "At Sky Mart, our operating philosophy is simple and unwavering: stock the right products, deliver exceptional service, and get it right the first time. This guiding principle has earned us the trust of a loyal Latin and North American customer base, and by joining the GracoRoberts' family, we can deliver even more value to our customers."
Ana Maria Robbin, Co-Owner and Executive Vice President of Sky Mart, offered her perspective on the acquisition. "2025 marked Sky Mart's 40th year in a business founded by our parents – our heroes – Gregorio and Lucy Robbin. They raised us to believe in the power of a vision, endless determination, and a deep spirit of service that defines our culture today, and I see these qualities in the team at GracoRoberts. I know the Sky Mart legacy will be upheld with care and purpose."
The leaders of both companies will collaborate to deliver a seamless, customer-focused transition that preserves each organization's culture and ensures no disruption to the business.
The acquisition of Sky Mart is supported by CM Equity Partners, the private equity sponsor of GracoRoberts and long-standing partner to its Executive Leadership Team (ELT). Under the leadership of President and CEO Jason Caldwell, the GracoRoberts ELT has significantly expanded the company's global footprint and accelerated its digital growth strategy through six acquisitions over the past seven years – E.V. Roberts, Able Aerospace Adhesives, Silmid, SkyGeek, Pacific Coast Composites, and now Sky Mart – each enhancing value for its enterprise partners and the broader aerospace industry.
About GracoRoberts
Headquartered in Arlington, TX, GracoRoberts (www.gracoroberts.com) is the single largest, fastest, and most technically focused specialty chemicals distributor to serve the global aerospace market and is fully AS, ISO, and CMMC II certified. We serve the aerospace OEM, MRO, and defense segments, composites, electronics, and other advanced manufacturing industries. As a family of brands including Silmid, SkyGeek, and Pacific Coast Composites, we are authorized to distribute 3M, Airtech, Aeroshell, AkzoNobel, Eastman, Henkel, Hexcel, Huntsman, Isovolta, Momentive, PPG, Resin Formulators, Royco, Scott Bader, Sika, American Fiber & Finishing, Armite Lubricants, Arrow Solutions, B&J Rubber Products, Castrol, Chemetall, Contec, Deb Stoko, ITW Performance Polymers, Mask-Off, Master Fluid Solutions, Permabond, Reabrook Ltd, Rocol, Royal Adhesives, Socomore, and Zip-Chem, and can source thousands of other providers upon request. We differentiate by adding value: services include world-class ecommerce available through three websites (www.skygeek.com, www.silmid.com, and www.gracoroberts.com), global distribution, custom formulation, specialty packaging, vendor managed inventory, intermix and kitting services, defense logistics and compliance, export management services, and an on-staff Chemist, lab, and testing facility. GracoRoberts prides itself in delivering superior engineered materials with impeccable support to thousands of customers from more than 65 countries around the globe.
About Sky Mart
Headquartered in Miami, FL and founded in 1985 by Gregorio and Lucy Robbin with Co-Founder and President Juan Gregorio Robbin, Sky Mart (www.skymart.aero) has grown into an industry leading and well-recognized aerospace chemical, lubricant and specialty fluids stocking distributor. Sky Mart is now a second-generation Robbin family business serving thousands of customers across Latin America and North America. With over 40 years of global distribution experience, the company's philosophy is straight forward: stock the products, quote quickly, and offer fast, accurate, and on-time shipping. Today Sky Mart continues to invest in online and EDI trading platforms, and offers reliable and effective after-hours AOG service for the airline, MRO, and other aviation communities.
About CM Equity Partners
CM Equity Partners (www.cmequity.com), based in New York, NY, provides capital to the Federal services and aerospace and defense industries. For 30 years, CMEP has partnered with management teams to build enduring value by leveraging its industry knowledge, relationships, operating experience, and its corporate finance, M&A, and private equity expertise. CMEP employs an active and collaborative management approach, developing long-term strategic plans and guiding decisions on re-investment of profits to grow and broaden a company's revenue base and capabilities. CMEP's investments are structured with flexibility across a broad spectrum of the capital structure, including equity, structured equity, and mezzanine debt.
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GracoRoberts Acquires Sky Mart to Accelerate Latin American Expansion, Anchored by Miami Hub
