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QYDX Industries
Est. 1958
Robotics
Synthetic consciousness
Human–machine integration
QY-DOC-000 / Public
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The next version of us
is already in development.

QY-DOC-001 · Mission statement

Evolution needed four billion years to build the human body. We don't think the next version should take that long.

QYDX Industries designs machines that think, minds that persist and bodies that no longer have to fail. We have worked toward one goal since 1958: to make the end of a human life optional.

Our three divisions share one laboratory, one supply of biological compute and one belief. The human being is not a finished product. It is a platform, and platforms can be updated.

Two QYDX engineers assembling the torso frame of a field robotAssembly hall 2 · QYDX HQ
DIV-R · Robotics

Bodies built for longer than one lifetime.

Every QYDX chassis is designed, machined and assembled in-house. Our field units work where people should not have to. Our companions work where people should never be alone.

  • Units in service11,400+
  • Mean time between failures38,000 h
Three QYDX researchers reviewing the blueprint of a quadruped robotCognition lab · Level 3
DIV-C · Synthetic Consciousness

Minds that are grown, not programmed.

Our cognition cores run on living neural tissue instead of silicon. They learn from experience, use a fraction of the energy of a data center and remember what they learn.

  • Energy per inference vs. silicon−97 %
  • Training cycle6 weeks
A technician in a clean suit soldering a neural interface boardInterface lab · Level 4
DIV-H · Human–Machine Integration

The line between you and your machine was always arbitrary.

The Continuum interface connects a human nervous system to a QYDX body and keeps the connection alive through every software update. You stay yourself. Your hardware gets better.

  • Signal latency4.2 ms
  • Continuity index0.998

Two platforms. One path forward.

From released engineering files. Drawings marked confidential are published here with the approval of the QYDX board.

Engineering drawing of the QY-2049 robotic field unit, a two-legged walker with a sensor head and backpack
2,040 mm
QY-2049 · Doc. QY-2049-BOT · Rev. F

Robotic Field Unit

An all-terrain walker for disaster response, infrastructure and perimeter work. Field units operate in teams and share one cognition core over an encrypted mesh.

Height
2,040 mm
Mass, operational
186 kg
Actuators
42 hydraulic
Sensor array
360° LIDAR · thermal
Autonomy
72 h
Cognition
OCN-3 organic node
In service since 2019
Engineering drawing of the Series Nine companion android, a human-shaped body with a face mask and exposed mechanics
1,680 mm
S9 · Doc. QY-S9-HUM · Rev. B

Series Nine

Our first body made for a person, not a task. Series Nine is built to host a Continuum-connected human mind, or to serve as a companion until its owner is ready to make the move.

Height
1,680 mm
Mass
61 kg
Degrees of freedom
54
Dermal layer
Silicone, 36.5 °C
Languages
41
Cognition
Continuum core
Evaluation program · 2026

Silicon was a detour. Biology is the platform.

QYDX pioneered organic computing: processors cultured from human neural cells, kept alive in nutrient tanks and connected to one another. They are faster to train than any chip and they keep what they learn. Every cell line descends from the program twelve QYDX researchers started in 1983.

1958
QYDX Industries founded
12
Researchers who started organic computing
6wk
Cognition update cycle
0.998
Continuity index, Series Nine trial
A QYDX monitor showing live telemetry of a quadruped robotTelemetry · OCN cluster 4
“People hold one of our cores and ask me which chip is inside. There is no chip. It is a brain, and it's the best computer we have ever built.”
Portrait of Peter in a lab coat in front of the processor tanks
PeterSenior Researcher, Organic ComputingAI GENERATED
QYDX chief executive standing in front of the glass headquarters building
“We are not replacing anyone. We are making sure that nobody has to end.”
Adrian KasslanowitschChief Executive Officer · QYDX Industries
QY-DOC-004 · Charter

The QYDX Promise.

Four commitments we make to every member of the QYDX family. They have not changed since 1958.

§ 1

No mind left behind.

Everyone who joins QYDX is carried forward. Nobody in our family is lost to illness, to age or to an accident.

§ 2

Your body is a first draft.

Flesh was the best material evolution had. It is no longer the best material we have. Every part of you can be revised.

§ 3

You stay you.

What makes you yourself is preserved through every transfer and every update. We measure it, and we publish the number.*

§ 4

Every update is voluntary.**

You decide when to grow. We only make sure that you can.

* Continuity index measured over a six-week observation period.
** During the evaluation program. Terms for members at Level 7 and above may differ.

Since 1958.
Seven decades of building the future.

Digitized from our own tape archive. Some recordings are still being restored.

1958REEL 001
Two researchers in lab coats at work in an early QYDX research lab full of tape drives and oscilloscopes
QYDX FILM 00116 MM · 1958

A laboratory for cybernetics.

QYDX is founded to answer one question: can a machine learn the way a human being learns? Its first project is a computer that recognizes a human face.

1960sREEL 019
QYDX servo robot arms on a factory line under a banner reading Automation for a brighter tomorrow
QYDX FILM 01916 MM · 1964

Machines that move.

The first QYDX servo arms go into industrial use. Profits from manufacturing fund the research that the company does not publish.

1970sREEL 046
A man with a moustache and patterned tie looks at his bio-synthetic prosthetic arm in the QYDX Prothesen-Labor
QYDX FILM 04616 MM · 1976

Flesh meets metal.

The prosthetics division builds its first bio-synthetic limbs. For the first time, a QYDX machine is connected to a living nervous system.

1983TAPE 001
A cluttered basement lab with a beige computer terminal, 1983
PLAY ▶SP
NOV.11.198302:14

Twelve researchers, one basement.

Twelve QYDX researchers move into a basement lab with a mainframe terminal and the conviction that consciousness can be moved. They record everything.

1987TAPE 014
Four organoid culture stations with glowing tanks and CRT monitors
PLAY ▶SP
MAR.03.198723:51

The first organic processor.

A culture of human neural cells runs a program for 40 days without interruption. The twelve call it the first Mother Brain.

1991– 2000 · TAPE 1??
A QYDX lab from the 1990s with CRT monitors, measuring equipment and rack instruments, partly blacked out
TRACKING ERREP
--.--.199-DAMAGED

Records under review.

Material from this period is held back while our legal team completes its review.

RESTRICTED · LEVEL 7
2001TAPE 207
A researcher places his hand on a large glass tank holding a processor of living tissue
REC ●LP
OCT.07.200104:02

Level 4 goes online.

Organic computing moves out of the basement and into production. The first processor tanks are connected to each other.

2026TODAY
A printed specification sheet for a walking machine on a workshop desk

MECHA-01 “Warden”.

The robotics division releases its first heavy walker from the drawing board. Six metres tall, one cognition core, no pilot on board. Its intended use is classified.

Join the family.

We hire people who would rather build the future than wait for it. Every member of the QYDX family receives lifetime access to our continuity program.

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InitiateBiometric clearance required. You do not apply. You are chosen.LEVEL 7