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HEXA
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DiscontinuedChinaAssisted

Vincross · legged machine

HEXA

A programmable spider-like hexapod with a night-vision camera, about 51 cm across. Battery life ran 45 minutes to 3 hours.

Price
$949Cheaper than 100%
Height
—Not published
Weight
—Not published
Payload
—Not published
Speed
—Not published
Battery
—Not published
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Why it matters

A consumer six-legged robot with its own app-development platform (MIND OS) aimed at hobby programmers.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
2017
Released
2017
Launched by Vincross

Maker

VincrossCompany · China

How it stacks up

Against other legged & novel that publish the figure. Pick a measure.

  1. HEXAVincross · 2017$949
  2. DIABLODirect Drive Technology · 2023$4,399
  3. TRON 2LimX Dynamics · 2025$20,000
  4. TRON 1LimX Dynamics · 2024$21,600
  5. Guardian SSarcos Robotics (now Palladyne AI) · 2015$50,000
  6. DaisyHEBI Robotics · 2017$85,000
  7. LAURON VFZI Research Center for Information Technology · 2013$200,000
  8. Dante IICarnegie Mellon University Field Robotics Center (for NASA) · 1994$1,700,000

HEXA costs less than 100% of the 7 other legged & novel that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.

Price $949 $949$1,700,000 #1 of 8 · cheaper than 100%

Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, joints, battery.

Public attention

A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.

  • No Wikipedia article of its own yet
  • No recent press stories listed yet

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What’s inside

The parts the company has talked about publicly.

Movement
Walks on legs
How it runs
Assisted. Owners steered it from a phone app while it handled its own walking gait; users could program autonomous behaviours.
Actuators & motors
19 DoF: three per leg on six legs plus one in the head
Sensors & vision
720p night-vision camera, infrared transmitter, distance sensor, 3-axis accelerometer
Compute
Dual-core 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 with co-processors
Battery & power
6,900 mAh lithium-ion, about 45-180 minutes; 2.5 h cable or 4.5 h wireless charge
AI & software
MIND OS (Linux-based) with Golang SDK and 3D simulator
Other details
1.75 kg

From the maker

HEXA is the only machine from Vincross in the atlas.

Made, sold and where

Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.

Price
$949$949 list price
How to get one
No official buying page found
Sold or delivered
$949 at launch; discontinued

Sources

Figures come from press coverage. Every link below backs something on this page.

Tom's Guide This $1,000 Insect Robot Creeped My Whole Office Out (Vincross HEXA hands-on, Nov 2017)

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