HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled
About
About HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled
HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled uses an omnidirectional base to position two arms around industrial workstations. Its end effectors are modular: configurations include a five-finger hand with 12 degrees of freedom and a simpler parallel gripper. This allows the robot to be equipped for different object geometries and handling requirements.
Wrist cameras provide close-range views of the manipulation area, while force and torque sensing adds feedback during contact. Head-mounted RGB and depth cameras provide a wider view of the surroundings. Interchangeable protective garments cover the robot for different working environments, complementing the modular hardware used to adapt it to factory trials and material-handling applications.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: MarturFompak production-logistics PoC, FordInnovationCentreCologne PoC, Siemens ElectronicsFactoryErlangen PoC
- Control modes: Autonomous
- Ford sheet-metal transfer
Pilot - 2026-01-20 - Navigate to a shelf, locate a thin sheet-metal car part and place it on a kitting table using both arms. - environment: FordInnovationCentreCologne PoC
Source - Pick and place
Pilot - 2026-01-15 - The trial met a 60-tote-moves-per-hour target and exceeded 90% overall and autonomous pick-and-place success; continuous autonomous task execution lasted more than 30 minutes.
Source - SAP-tasked tote delivery
Pilot - 2026-03-30 - Receive an SAP task, navigate to a pallet, retrieve a KLT box and deliver it to a trolley. - environment: MarturFompak production-logistics PoC
Source - Ford tote kitting
Pilot - 2026-01-20 - Move totes with eight-kilogram loads between kitting workstations. - environment: FordInnovationCentreCologne PoC
Source - Siemens tote destacking
Pilot - 2026-01-15 - Pick totes from a stack, carry them to a conveyor and place them at the operator pickup point. - environment: Siemens ElectronicsFactoryErlangen PoC
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Operations
- Order / Commitment
four-digit number of wheeled units by 2032 - 2026-05-13 - Schaeffler - industrial manufacturing - Humanoid says its Schaeffler agreement targets deployment of a four-digit number of wheeled units across Schaeffler facilities by 2032. This is a staged rollout commitment, not delivered-unit evidence.
Source - Operating Milestone
more than 8 hours - 2026-01-15 - Siemens - Two-week on-site industrial logistics proof of concept - HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled exceeded eight hours of uptime during the Siemens Erlangen industrial-logistics proof of concept.
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Deployments
- Customer Site
1 named Schaeffler site - 2026-05-13 - Schaeffler - industrial manufacturing - Humanoid says HMND 01 has been operating at a Schaeffler facility in Germany after proof-of-concept work. Treat this as one named live/pilot customer site, separate from the later rollout commitment.
Source - Customer Site
1 named Martur Fompak POC site - 2026-03-30 - Martur Fompak - industrial logistics proof of concept - HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled completed a live production-logistics proof of concept with SAP and Martur Fompak.
Source - Customer Site
1 named Ford POC site - 2026-01-20 - Ford - automotive manufacturing - HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled completed a proof of concept at Ford's Innovation Centre in Cologne covering tote handling and dual-arm manipulation.
Source - Customer Site
1 named Siemens POC site - 2026-01-15 - Siemens - industrial logistics proof of concept - HMND 01 completed an autonomous tote-handling proof of concept at Siemens' Electronics Factory Erlangen.
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Supply
Supply / Components
- HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled
Nvidia Compute For Hmnd 01 Wheeled - Compute & Control - NVIDIA - Humanoid's HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled uses NVIDIA Jetson Thor in the Siemens factory pilot - source: thehumanoid.ai
Source - Jetson Thor
Compute & Control
Timeline
- Humanoid completes logistics proof of concept with SAP and Martur Fompak
2026-03-30 - Deployment - SAP Business AI sent instructions through the Joule agent layer and SAP Extended Warehouse Management, connecting the robot to enterprise warehouse tasks over the internet. The robot handled three tote types with an eight-kilogram dual-arm payload limit; partners were preparing a further on-site validation phase.
Source - Humanoid completes automotive demonstration at Ford Innovation Centre
2026-01-20 - Demonstration - The tote workflow used eight-kilogram loads and achieved 97% autonomous pick-and-place reliability under the test conditions, with 83 units per hour against a 50-unit target. A separate workflow involved navigating to a shelf, locating a thin car-body component and placing it on a kitting table; partners planned further demonstrations before production use.
Source - Humanoid and Siemens complete logistics proof of concept
2026-01-15 - Deployment - The robot autonomously destacked totes, transported them to a conveyor and presented them for human pickup, working with two tote sizes. The trial met a 60-tote-moves-per-hour target and exceeded 90% overall and autonomous pick-and-place success; continuous autonomous task execution lasted more than 30 minutes.
Source - 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.
Source - Humanoid launches HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled for industrial pilots
2025-09-19 - Product Launch - The platform uses an omnidirectional mobile base, 29 active degrees of freedom and interchangeable hand or gripper end effectors. The launch specification listed a 15 kg bimanual payload and a maximum speed of 7.2 km/h. The Alpha entered early access as an industrial platform feeding development of the planned Beta wheeled robot.
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Context
Market context
HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled is Humanoid's industrial mobile-manipulation configuration, combining the HMND upper body with an omnidirectional wheeled base for factory tasks.
- Target environment: Factory floors, logistics cells, production lines and structured industrial workstations.
- Workflow context: Tote handling, bin picking, kitting, machine tending, assembly support and human-adjacent material movement.
- Customer context: Manufacturers, logistics operators and automation teams evaluating mobile manipulation for repetitive factory and workstation tasks.
- Deployment model: Early-access Alpha product with public specifications and an industrial proof-of-concept at Siemens Erlangen.
- Commercial maturity: Alpha-stage platform with published factory-trial performance metrics from a Siemens industrial deployment.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on repeatable manipulation reliability, safety integration, fleet orchestration, runtime and fit with existing plant workflows.
- Market position: Positions Humanoid closer to factory-grade mobile manipulation than biped-only humanoid strategies, with heavier payload and faster wheeled movement for structured industrial…
- Adjacent products: Stretch, Apollo, Digit, AEON