The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Humane: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, $230.0M raised, 1 active incident. 5 sources back the record.
CategoryWearable AI
Overview
American consumer technology company founded by ex-Apple engineers that developed the AI Pin wearable AI device. Launched at $199 in November 2023, the AI Pin was discontinued in February 2025 after disappointing reviews and low sales (~10K units). Humane sold its assets to HP for $116M. The AI Pin is no longer functional — service was terminated for all buyers.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- 1 incident on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDAcquisitionAcquired by HP Inc.
Key facts
Status
Founders
Funding raisedsee investors →
Product
AI Pin status
AI Pin price
Acquisition
Financial stage
Data & sources
News coverage
3
Web sources
2
5 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Humane on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Humane's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Humane deployment record →
Relationships
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Humane, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.
What is an AI wearable?
What is the Humane AI Pin?
What is the best AI wearable in 2026?
What are the different types of wearable AI?
What does wearable AI do?
Current leadership (1)
- Imran Chaudhri Co-founder and CEOsecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Imran Chaudhrino longer at company
Former / Previously (1)
- Bethany Bongiorno CEOsecondary-verified
Safety record
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Incidents affecting Humane (1)
Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Operator customers (1)
- Humane1 deployment
Recent coverage
Humane in third-party press
Peers
35 peers across 1 segment. Every Humane competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
wearable(35)
32 companies in this segment · highly_concentrated (HHI 2595.3892239124602) · leader Oculus VR at 4361%
- Baidudirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Based Hardwaredirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Beedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Brilliant Labsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Dexcomdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Embla Medical hfdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (4)
Registry pages whose text names Humane.
People (2)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $230.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- wound_down
- Counterparty risk class
- high
- Going concern
- flaggedHP acquired assets Feb 2025; operations wound down.
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Funding rounds (1)
- Funding
$230M(reported)
Investors: Tiger Global Management, Qualcomm Ventures, OpenAI Startup Fund
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by HP Inc.asset purchase2025-02-18
Timeline
Every recorded move in Humane’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Acquired byAcquired by HP Inc.
2025-02-18Acquired by HP Inc. (asset_purchase)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 5, 2026
Humane AI Pin (discontinued)
- Record createdJun 3, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Incident recordedJan 1, 2025
Humane recalls the Ai Pin charge-case accessory over a lithium-battery fire hazard (2025)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
AI Pin at San Francisco
Sources (5)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Inc.
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/humanes-ai-pin-is-dead-as-hp-buys-startups-assets-for-116m/
- https://www.axios.com/2025/02/18/humane-ai-pin-shut-down-hp
- https://fortune.com/2025/02/19/hp-humane-deal-ai-pin-shutting-down/
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-22/wearable-ai-startup-humane-is-said-to-explore-potential-sale
Common questions
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Is Humane safe?
Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Humane.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Humane from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Rescue cats arrive from Kauai for adoption in the Bay Area
(KRON) -- A special delivery to SFO’s cargo facility Monday as 26 feline friends arrived via jet from Kauai. “Berkeley Humane has been working with our partners Nine Lives to…
Kentucky Humane Society sends staff to Alabama assist in hurricane response
As Hurricane Isaias moves inland, the Kentucky Humane Society is sending staff to Alabama to help protect animals in the storm's path.
Santa Barbara Humane Celebrates Generosity and Community at ‘Whiskers Under the Moon’ Gala
Santa Barbara Humane welcomed almost 300 guests to its Santa Barbara campus on Saturday, September 19, for Whiskers Under the The post Santa Barbara Humane Celebrates Generosity…
Elitch Gardens Pet Parade in Denver to benefit Humane Colorado
Elitch Gardens in Denver hosts a pet parade with registration proceeds benefiting Humane Colorado's animal welfare work statewide. The post Elitch Gardens Pet Parade in Denver to…
Tristan Harris’ Tech Nonprofit Is Laying Off Most Staff and Going ‘Founder-Led’
The Center for Humane Technology helped spark a movement against excessive screen time, but internal tensions over its direction and strategy have simmered for years, sources tell…
Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of care
All this, and angry NeoVim users
Santa Barbara Humane Announces Six Months of Free Spay and Neuter Surgeries for North County Pets
For the next six months, thousands of North County pet owners will have the opportunity to access free spay and The post Santa Barbara Humane Announces Six Months of Free Spay and…
100-pound pig Honey finds new home after SoCal adoption plea
A 100-pound pig named Honey has found a new home just hours after a Southern California animal shelter put out a call for someone to adopt her. Pasadena Humane introduced the…
Kanawha County bat tests positive for rabies, pet vaccine clinic scheduled
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — The Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association is hosting a pet vaccine clinic after a bat tested positive for rabies in Kanawha County. The…
San Francisco Zoo mourns loss of 34-year-old mandrill Pandora
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- The San Francisco Zoo is mourning the loss of Pandora, the zoo's oldest female mandrill, who was humanely euthanized after her health declined in recent…
Eleven puppies found abandoned in Kanawha County
KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) -- West Virginia State Police are investigating a case of puppies that appear to have been abandoned in eastern Kanawha County. The eleven puppies…
Alligator Alcatraz held detainees in cages the size of phone booths, DHS watchdog says
<p>Office of inspector general’s report says practice at Florida immigration jail is not aligned with ‘humane treatment’</p><p>Before the facility was <a…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/humane.md
- RSS feed: /companies/humane/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/a3c878b7-ce08-4eee-8459-768acf5a90bb
- Revision history: /companies/humane/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
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In this clip, Marques, Andrew, and David test out what it's like to send and receive text messages with the Humane AI Pin. Watch full episode: https://www.you
Apple AI Pin — Apple’s Secret AI Device Revealed Apple might be about to jump into one of the most unpredictable, high-risk tech categories right now… and if t
What happens when Silicon Valley’s most-hyped gadget can’t survive the real world? Meet the Humane AI Pin—a $699 “game-changer” that overheated, under-delivered
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By now you’ve probably seen this viral AI pin. It’s gotten a lot of hype, so here’s what’s really going on: The idea of the Humane AI pin is that it’s a wearabl
Imran Chaudhri, Humane co-founder and president, and Bethany Bongiorno, Humane co-founder and CEO, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the company's new wearable AI d
Introducing the all new Humane AI Pin. Oh the Humane-ity! Featuring Clips From… Humane AI: https://youtu.be/9lNIwOOMVHk?si=j3Rnb9dL0Q20MzSf Marques Brownlee: h
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Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Humane draws attention at the 83rd percentile but verifies reality at the 22nd percentile among wearable robots. Hype Gap +60.7, 3rd widest among wearable robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Safety profile within acceptable range for category. Broad public reach with 8.4M video views. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 17, 2026