[ Journal ]
Notes from the floor.
Engineering deep dives, field notes from our pilots and the design decisions behind S1.
Engineering
6 min
Why we gave S1 hands instead of grippers
Grippers are cheaper and easier to control. We chose ten fingers anyway, because the world is built for human hands.
Field notes
8 min
What 94,000 hours on the pilot floor taught us
Eleven sites, three shifts a day and zero safety incidents. Here is what surprised us, and what we changed.
Design
5 min
Designing a robot people are happy to work next to
Speed and strength are easy to measure. Trust is harder. These are the small decisions that make S1 feel like a colleague.
Engineering
9 min
Inside the S1 perception stack
Twelve cameras, one lidar and a model that turns raw pixels into a live map of everything that matters on the floor.