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HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal

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About HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal

HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal is Humanoid's full-size bipedal development prototype, built around a 29-joint body and a reinforcement-learning whole-body controller. Its locomotion set covers straight and curved walking, turning, sidestepping, backward walking, squatting, hopping and running; modular wrists accept either five-finger hands or parallel grippers.

KinetIQ divides motion, perception, skills and higher-level intelligence across NVIDIA compute, while RGB and depth cameras, force-torque sensing, haptics, microphones and speakers provide multimodal inputs. Humanoid positions this biped mainly for R&D toward future service and household use. The programme is an alpha-stage development platform focused on future service and household applications.

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Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Operating environments: Physical prototype development
  • Bipedal walking

    Demonstrated - 2025-12-02 - Walk stably during physical prototype development. - environment: Physical prototype development

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  • Dynamic locomotion

    Claimed - Run, hop, sidestep and squat using advertised motion modes.

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Deployments

  • Customer Site

    1 named Bosch POC site - 2026-05-21 - Bosch - industrial intralogistics proof of concept - Humanoid said HMND 01 completed a March 2026 proof of concept in Bosch's Buhl logistics environment, transferring boxes from a conveyor to a trolley across multiple box sizes and weights.

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Timeline

  • Humanoid adopts NVIDIA compute and simulation stack

    2026-01-06 - Capability - Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim supported reinforcement learning and hardware-in-the-loop digital twins for navigation, manipulation, teleoperation and whole-body control testing. Simulation helped select actuators, distribute mass and place sensors; six leg configurations were evaluated before physical testing of the bipedal robot.

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  • Humanoid unveils HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal

    2025-12-02 - Product Launch - The prototype has 29 degrees of freedom excluding end effectors and a rated 15-kilogram bimanual payload, with optional five-finger hands or parallel grippers. Humanoid reported stable walking 48 hours after final assembly and used NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for reinforcement-learning locomotion development.

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Context

Market context

HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal is Humanoid's legged humanoid configuration, pairing full-body biped locomotion with manipulation hardware and KinetIQ-driven robot skills.

  • Target environment: Industrial sites, structured workplaces, robotics labs and demonstration environments that need human-scale biped mobility.
  • Workflow context: Biped walking, whole-body control, manipulation, human-robot interaction and embodied-AI task development.
  • Customer context: Industrial operators, robotics developers and research teams evaluating full-body humanoid platforms.
  • Deployment model: Alpha-stage product page and early-access posture, with the broader HMND platform also represented in industrial proof-of-concept work through the wheeled variant.
  • Commercial maturity: Alpha platform with official public specifications and active industrial positioning.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on walking reliability, manipulation success, safety validation, runtime and integration into practical workplace workflows.
  • Market position: Humanoid's full-body biped baseline, contrasted with the wheeled Alpha for heavier industrial mobile-manipulation work.
  • Adjacent products: Apollo, Digit, Figure 02, Phoenix

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