Haas-Bioroid (HB) pioneered commercial bioroids—synthetic humanoids with optical brains neurally channeled from human braintapes. Labor solutions, industrial robotics, and "better than human" reliability are the sales pitch; property status and hardwired directives are the social reality.

HB competes bitterly with Jinteki over the future of artificial people (chrome vs flesh). Subsidiaries and projects include CyberSolutions, NEXT Design, and experimental lines (including dangerous combat platforms like Ares in SotB adversaries).

On the Network, HB ice is infamous—bioroid ice such as Heimdall and Janus blur program and personality.

Faction favors (SotB): corporate access, prototypes, sysops aid—at the cost of being owned by the brand.