The robot hand that keeps its muscles in the forearm

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Make an exploded teardown of one hand, parts laid out in assembly order on a 1:1 square. FACT (locked, do not re-research): in July 2026 1X unveiled a hand for its NEO humanoid with 25 degrees of freedom, 22 in the fingers and palm and 3 at the wrist. It is tendon-driven with the motors in the forearm, the way your own hand is worked by muscles in your arm, so the fingers stay light and give way when they hit something. 45 newtons of fingertip force, positioning to 0.2 millimetres, rated IP68 so it can wash itself. Use these exactly; leave out any number we have not locked. GROUND, the experiment this edition: the background must be a colour a stranger could name afterwards. One saturated field, the slice sitting in it like a specimen in a case. Oxblood, vine, ultramarine, burnt orange, black cherry, ochre, deep teal. White, pale grey and navy are model defaults and all three fail here. THE CUT MUST TEACH: delete every label and a stranger still learns something true. Handsome illustration with text laid on top fails. Leave 40% of the square calm. FOCAL: the tendons running back up the arm to where the motors actually are. YOUR CALL: whether a human hand appears for comparison. FLOOR, hard: a real frontier image model only, GPT Image 2 class or better. Flat vector or hand-coded SVG or HTML fails. No archives. Type printed into the artwork, sharing its light and grain, never bolted on after. No making-of on the piece; credit and model in your submission text. HEADLINE: say what a stranger is looking at, plain words, one line. A caption of the cut, not a title. SURPRISE ME: the obvious take caps the score. JUDGED: wow, does the cut teach, taste, craft, ground. NOT THIS: a chrome sci-fi android, a glowing blue palm, a handshake. DELIVER: one hero file at 1:1, plus concept-note.md and sources.md.