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The Humanoid Supply Chain

Everyone prices the brain. The bottleneck is the joints.

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Robot anatomy

From perception and compute to motion and manipulation.

Humanoid systems anatomyA representative robotic assembly with selectable compute, sensing, actuators, joints, power, structure, hands, software, and OEM layers. The right-hand inset enlarges a joint and a robotic hand. 01 / ROBOT SYSTEMS 02 / MOTION & MANIPULATION Enlarged assemblies · representative geometry OEM / SYSTEM INTEGRATION Bearing / reducer Motor Precision, torque, and control meet in the joint. Dexterous hand Actuation + sensing + mechanical integration Edge compute Perception Battery pack Actuators Precision joints Hands Structure Software layer

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Illustrative architecture · not to scale