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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
- None on file
- Active incidents
- 1 incident on file
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Key facts
Status
Founders
Funding raised
Product
AI Pin status
AI Pin price
Acquisition
Financial stage
Data & sources
News coverage
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Models (1)
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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?
An AI wearable is a body-worn device whose primary value comes from AI inference on captured sensor input (voice, camera, biosensors) rather than from the wearable hardware itself. The category spans pins, pendants, glasses, and audio devices. As of mid-2026 DEPLOY tracks 7 entities with 3 distinct operational states: commercial active (Plaud NotePin, Friend Pendant, Bee Wearable, Meta Ray-Ban), pilot active (Rabbit r1), and commercial discontinued (Humane AI Pin, Limitless Pendant). The Big Tech acquires pattern is the editorial throughline: Humane to HP, Bee to Amazon, Limitless to Meta.
- What is the Humane AI Pin?
Humane AI Pin was a wearable AI device launched in November 2023 at $699 device + $24/month subscription, positioned as a smartphone replacement with voice-driven AI assistant. Humane was acquired by HP in February 2025 (approximately $116M per public reporting; audit-first on exact figure), and the AI Pin servers were shutdown February 28, 2025 - bricking customer hardware that depended on cloud connectivity. Per DEPLOY's framework, Humane AI Pin is the canonical failure exemplar across the AI wearables cohort: the editorial case for why verified-vs-claimed discipline matters at product evaluation time. Maturity: commercial/discontinued. Pre-shutdown unit sales cap-flagged; never publicly verified at scale.
- What is the best AI wearable in 2026?
There is no single best AI wearable in 2026; the right pick depends on use case, AI substance tier, and maturity. Per DEPLOY's framework: for visual assistance + genuine cloud AI shipping at consumer-deployment scale, Meta Ray-Ban anchors the Western verified-commercial position and Rokid anchors the non-Western. For audio-first capture and recall, Plaud (capture) and Friend (ambient) operate genuine cloud AI at commercial active. For developer-accessible / open-source orientation, Brilliant Labs Frame + Halo. For pilot-stage multi-purpose with marketing-vs-shipped gap, Rabbit r1. For commercial-discontinued failure context, Humane AI Pin. Trade-press 'best of' listicles collapse the axes; the right pick differs by buyer.
- What are the different types of wearable AI?
Wearable AI sorts along two intersecting axes per DEPLOY's framework. Form factor: smart glasses with display (Brilliant Labs Frame variants), smart glasses without display (Meta Ray-Ban base variants; Rokid; audio-first), audio-only smart glasses (Solos AirGo Vision), pendant recorders (Humane AI Pin; Friend Pendant; Plaud NotePin variants), and adjacent uncovered sub-categories (smart rings / smart watches / AI earbuds). AI substance tier: genuine cloud AI / moderate open-source / partner-mediated / veneer per Agent A's spectrum. Cross-referencing the axes produces the cohort's editorial typology; smart rings, smart watches, and AI earbuds are gaps in DEPLOY's current registry surfaced honestly as editorial signal.
- What does wearable AI do?
Wearable AI does six things at different verification depths per DEPLOY's framework: (1) visual Q&A on what the camera sees (Meta Ray-Ban Look-and-Ask; Rokid; Brilliant Labs; Solos GPT-4o); (2) live translation across languages (Meta + Rokid with offline mode + Solos); (3) capture & summarize voice + transcripts (Plaud; Friend; Bee; Omi pending registry); (4) ambient recall of conversations + context (Bee; Friend; Omi pending registry); (5) smartphone replacement promised but verified-as-failed (Humane discontinued; Rabbit r1 marketing-vs-shipped gap); (6) health monitoring (uncovered in current DEPLOY cohort; Oura, Apple Watch, Fitbit are canonical contenders DEPLOY hasn't yet registered). The canonical wearable AI question conflates 'what is marketed' with 'what is verified-shipped'; DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed framework fixes the conflation.
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.
Recent coverage
Humane in third-party press
Peer companies
- Xiaomi3 models
- Baidu2 models
- Brilliant Labs2 models
- Even Realities2 models
- Hark2 models
- Open Bionics2 models
Financial state
- 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.
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by HP Inc.asset purchase2025-02-18
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)
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
- What is Humane?
- 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.
- What does Humane make?
- Humane has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: AI Pin (Humane builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).
- Is Humane publicly traded?
- Humane is not independently listed on public markets; it is part of HP on the DEPLOY registry.
- Who competes with Humane?
- On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Humane building in the same form factors include Xiaomi, Baidu, Brilliant Labs, Even Realities.
- How can I invest in Humane?
- Humane has no separately traded stock; it is owned by HP (the parent is the entity that trades, where it is public).
- Where is Humane headquartered?
- Humane is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
- Who owns Humane?
- Humane is owned by HP, per the DEPLOY registry.
- Where does Humane operate robots?
- Humane is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.
- Is Humane a top robotics company?
- On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Humane ranks in roughly the top 70% of companies tracked by the registry.
- When was Humane founded?
- Humane was founded in 2018.
- Are there any incidents involving Humane?
- 1 active incident involving Humane is on the DEPLOY registry. Each is a sourced, append-only record; retracted incidents are suppressed from this view.
- Is Humane safe?
- Humane has 1 active incident on record in the DEPLOY registry. 1 recall on record (1 serious). Most recent: Jan 2025. Retracted incidents are excluded from this count.
Methodology: Verified · 5 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-18
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-18
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.Peer companies
- Xiaomi3 models
- Baidu2 models
- Brilliant Labs2 models
- Even Realities2 models
- Hark2 models
- Open Bionics2 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Humane from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
US, Mexico Catholic bishops call for humane treatment of migrants
More than 100 Catholic bishops, nuns, priests and parishioners joined a procession across the US-Mexico border on Friday evening, urging the US government to treat migrants with…
HP acquiring parts of AI Pin startup Humane for $116 million
HP acquired parts of Humane for $116M and retired the AI Pin. The product, once hyped as a smartphone alternative, received disappointing reviews and lack of orders.
Humane is shutting down the AI Pin and selling its business to HP
Humane discontinued the AI Pin and sold most of its company to HP for $116M. The AI Pin will stop working — service ends for buyers, some of whom won't receive refunds.
AI startup Humane to wind down wearable pin business, sell assets to HP
Humane is shutting down its wearable pin business and selling assets to HP for $116M after disappointing reviews and lack of orders.
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
Peer companies
- Xiaomi3 models
- Baidu2 models
- Brilliant Labs2 models
- Even Realities2 models
- Hark2 models
- Open Bionics2 models
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Reality vs attention
Humane draws attention at the 85th percentile but verifies reality at the 47th percentile among wearable robots. Hype Gap +37.6, 4th widest among wearable robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Safety profile within acceptable range for category. Broad public reach with 150.4M video views. Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
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: Jul 18, 2026