Strideborn — Est. 2025
We do not build machines. We teach matter how to walk, think, and endure.
For billions of years, life solved one problem above all others: how to move through a hostile world with grace, efficiency, and purpose. Every joint, every reflex, every gait pattern is the result of that long negotiation between a body and its environment.
At Strideborn, we believe robots must earn their movement. Not simulate it. Not approximate it. But embody it — through structure, material, and the intelligence that binds them.
We begin with four legs on the ground — the most stable, most ancient architecture for locomotion. From there, we reach upward. Because the path to a humanoid is paved with everything a quadruped teaches you. Balance. Recovery. The geometry of a stride. The instinct to not fall.
We build in plastic and polymer because constraints breed ingenuity. Because a machine that works with limited material has already solved the harder problem. Perfection is not the goal. Motion is.
K1 is our origin. Four legs, twelve degrees of freedom, and the relentless pursuit of stable locomotion on uneven ground. Built from 3D-printed polymer, K1 proves that movement needs no exotic material — only intelligent design.
K1 is our school. Everything we learn from its stumbles becomes the spine of what follows.
H1 is the question K1 answers. When you have mastered the ground with four legs, you ask: what does it take to stand on two? H1 is the evolution — taller, more complex, more precarious, and for those reasons, more meaningful.
H1 does not imitate the human. It understands why the human form works — and builds from that understanding.
We build with 3D-printed materials not despite their limits, but because of them. The machine that works within constraints has solved a deeper problem than the one built with infinite budget.
The quadruped precedes the humanoid. K1 is not a stepping stone — it is the foundation. Every gait cycle, every fall recovery, every learned balance is knowledge that H1 inherits.
A robot does not think with its processor alone. It thinks with its legs, its joints, its material response to the world. We design intelligence and structure as a single unified system.
We do not hide our falls. Every stumble of K1 is logged, studied, and fed forward. Failure is not the opposite of progress — it is the mechanism of it.
Our designs, our learnings, our mistakes — shared openly. The future of robotics is not owned. It is built collectively, one printed part at a time.
We are not in the business of demos or renders. We are in the business of machines that actually move — in real space, on real ground, under real conditions.