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The registry records a material corporate re-centering since the original entry: co-founder and chief technology officer Suzanne Gildert departed in April 2024 and founder and chief executive Geordie Rose was removed in November 2024, leaving to start a quantum venture, with former chief commercial officer James Wells becoming chief executive, and through 2025 and 2026 nearly all of Sanctuary's public activity has shifted to its dexterous hydraulic hand, tactile sensing, and in-hand manipulation, explicitly framed as a hand-first roadmap with hands built in a modular format for integration with other companies' robots, alongside materials and AI partnerships such as Zeon in June 2026, NVIDIA Isaac Lab, and Microsoft. Sanctuary has not announced abandoning the full Phoenix humanoid, so the registry keeps it at research maturity and active lifecycle rather than asserting a clean licensing pivot or a wind-down, but it flags the open question of full-humanoid commitment versus a component-IP strategy as a watch item, alongside financial-pressure signals including a roughly seventy-five-and-a-half-million Canadian dollar Series A in November 2024 and small subsequent raises against far better capitalized competitors. Phoenix today is teleoperation-primary, piloted by human operators for production and data capture while training toward autonomy through Carbon, so the registry does not present it as an autonomous deployed product.","formFactor":"humanoid","maturityStage":"research","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"focus":"dexterous_manipulation","notes":[{"label":"Corporate re-centering (re-verify 2026-06-04)","value":"Leadership change + hand-first re-positioning: co-founder/CTO Suzanne Gildert departed Apr 2024; founder/CEO Geordie Rose removed Nov 2024 (left for a quantum venture); ex-CCO James Wells became CEO. Through 2025-2026 nearly all public activity is the dexterous hydraulic hand, tactile sensing, and in-hand manipulation, framed as a 'hand-first' roadmap with hands in a MODULAR format for integration with other companies' robots; partnerships Zeon (Jun 2026), NVIDIA Isaac Lab, Microsoft."},{"label":"Calibrated - NOT over-corrected (cap-flag)","value":"Sanctuary has NOT announced abandoning the full Phoenix humanoid (latest = Gen 8, Jan 2025), so this is recorded as a hand-first re-centering under financial pressure, NOT a verified clean 'licensing pivot' and NOT a wind-down. Open question (full-humanoid commitment vs component-IP strategy) flagged as a WATCH item. Distress signals: ~C$75.5M Series A Nov 2024 + small subsequent raises against far-better-capitalized peers; a reported ~$10M convertible note is secondary-sourced (unverified). 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