Physical intelligence, built into the structure.

AI discovers new materials and compliant mechanisms for the physical world.Starting with pressure redistribution.

Close-up of the Sunflower hexagonal lattice

The opportunity

The contact layer inside every robot.

$5Thumanoid market by 2050. Every humanoid needs feet and hands that survive contact.

$138B

Factories

Humanoids by 2035, led by factories and logistics

80M

Homes

Humanoids in homes by 2050

$25B

Entertainment

Entertainment robots by 2035: parks and venues

26M

Our parts

Robot feet and hands built a year by 2035

Our parts are essential in every one: factories, homes and entertainment.

Sources: Goldman Sachs (2026), Morgan Stanley (2025), industry reports. 26M = 6.5M humanoids × 4 feet and hands.

The problem

Contact is where robots break.

Every step and grasp sends a force spike through joints and actuators. It wears parts out, drains batteries and shakes robot vision. And touch sensing is so fragile and costly that most robots feel almost nothing.

Contact points on every humanoid: two feet, two hands

6.5M

Humanoids a year by 2035 (Goldman Sachs)

The solution

Protection against damage, fatigue, and failure.

Every contact creates stress. Our geometry spreads it, with no power and no electronics.

Contact Stress concentrates Load spreads Redistributed

01 / Problem

Forces concentrate.

Localized stress creates the starting point for damage.

Damage → Fatigue → Failure

02 / Solution

We redistribute loads.

Load one cell and its neighbors stiffen and share it, so pressure spreads across the whole surface.

Engineering validation

Designed to redistribute.

Where foam concentrates load on one point, our geometry spreads it across the surface.

76.5%

of the load on one point with commercial foam and gel

~33%

on each point with Sunflower, close to an even split

1.17M

load cycles with no loss of function

Independently tested by the footwear lab of PUMA SE, which concluded that the mechanical tests confirm the concept.

Sunflower compliant sole for humanoid robots

Robotics

The Michelin for humanoid robots.

A compliant sole for robots that work in the world, not just on the lab floor.

Protect every step. Millions of load cycles reach the joints through the foot. The sole redistributes them before they arrive.

Move more efficiently. Compliant contact wastes less of every step, on flat ground and long before the terrain gets rough.

See clearly while walking. Less foot-strike shake reaches the cameras robots rely on.

Feel with every finger. Because the lattice deforms predictably, a few low-cost sensors can read the whole surface. In development.

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The platform

One geometry for every robot foot, hand and skin.

Proven first on the human foot. Next: robot feet and hands, sensing skin, and data-capture gloves that record human touch for robot learning.

Compliant hexagonal geometry across robotic feet

Concept render

Humanoid feet

Compliant hexagonal geometry across a robotic hand

Concept render

Robot hands

Data-capture glove with the compliant hexagonal geometry

Concept render

Data-capture gloves

Proven first on the human foot

A new generation of pressure-redistributing insoles.

GEOMETRIES™

By Sunflower Robotics

Peak plantar pressure is where tissue breaks down first. Our adaptive insoles redistribute pressure through passive compliant geometry. No motors. No actuators. Nothing to charge, nothing to fail.

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