Product profile
RX-1
RX-1 is Helsing's European robotics research platform. It is designed and manufactured in Europe for speed, robustness and academic robotics research, givi...
Facts
- Company
- Helsing
- Product type
- quadruped
- Status
- research platform
- Primary capability
- locomotion
- Website
- https://helsing.ai/newsroom/helsing-unveils-area-9-and-launches-rx-1-its-first-european-robotics-research-platform
About RX-1
RX-1 is a large quadruped developed by Helsing’s Area 9 research division for outdoor autonomy and physical-AI experimentation. Helsing designs the platform and crucial components, including its actuators, in Europe and manufactures the machine within the region. The hardware is intended to tolerate difficult terrain and weather while providing sufficient speed and robustness for field-robotics research beyond controlled indoor laboratories.
Helsing is making RX-1 available to selected European academic institutions for field-robotics research. Initial partners include Marco Hutter’s robotics group at ETH Zurich and INRIA Paris, which will use the platform for research into autonomy, perception and movement across unpredictable environments. RX-1 also gives Area 9 an internally controlled robot on which software and physical hardware can be developed together, reducing dependence on imported quadruped platforms.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Quadruped
Core: Research gait
Function: Enable experiments
Audience: Researchers
Operations
- Environment
- field and research environments
- Primary user
- research institutions and robotics laboratories
- Role
- quadruped research platform
- Mobility class
- quadruped
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Helsing raises $1.8B Series E at an $18B valuation — 2026-07-13
- Helsing unveils Area 9 and launches RX-1 European robotics research platform — 2026-06-01
- Helsing and OHB establish KIRK joint venture for tactical space-based reconnaissance — 2026-05-19
- Helsing opens Stockholm hub for Nordic defence and AI air-combat work — 2026-04-20
- Germany awards Helsing initial EUR 269M HX-2 strike drone contract — 2026-02-12
- Kongsberg and Helsing team on European space-based IST constellation — 2025-12-09
- Schaeffler and Helsing sign MoU on drone development and production scale-up — 2025-12-02
- Helsing opens Plymouth Resilience Factory for AI-enabled submarine hunters — 2025-11-19