Press release

XNANU opens Bremen assembly hall for HB-1 Atlas

June 24, 2026

The Bremen hall brings assembly, thermal-vacuum testing and final integration under one roof. Its main chamber can hold a complete airlock ring at 10⁻⁵ mbar and cycle it between −130 °C and +80 °C.

Serial production of HB-1 Atlas begins in Q1 2027. The site will employ 180 people at full ramp.

XNANU raises US$740m to industrialise planetary robotics

The round takes XNANU from prototype fleets to serial production of surface systems, with a second assembly line in Bremen.

Mission update|Jul 09, 2026

AX-1 Ares completes 41 km unsupervised traverse

Eighteen sols in the Atacama with no route commands from the control room — and one recovered drive unit failure.

Blog|Jun 02, 2026

Why we build autonomy instead of better joysticks

A round trip to Mars costs up to forty minutes. Any architecture that needs a human in the loop has already lost the mission.