Humanoid

• HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal
• HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled

Orders & commitments

• Order / commitment

  2026-05-13 - 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. - HMND 01 wheeled Schaeffler rollout - global Schaeffler facilities

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Operating milestones

• Operating milestone

  2026-01-15 - HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled exceeded eight hours of uptime during the Siemens Erlangen industrial-logistics proof of concept. - Autonomous tote-handling POC at Siemens Electronics Factory Erlangen - Siemens Electronics Factory Erlangen

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• Customer site

  2026-05-21 - 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. - HMND 01 - Buhl, Germany

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• Customer site

  2026-05-13 - 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. - HMND 01 Schaeffler site - Germany

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• Customer site

  2026-03-30 - HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled completed a live production-logistics proof of concept with SAP and Martur Fompak. - HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled - Martur Fompak production facility

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• Customer site

  2026-01-20 - HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled completed a proof of concept at Ford's Innovation Centre in Cologne covering tote handling and dual-arm manipulation. - HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled - Cologne, Germany

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• Customer site

  2026-01-15 - HMND 01 completed an autonomous tote-handling proof of concept at Siemens' Electronics Factory Erlangen. - HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled - Erlangen, Germany

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Supply chain relationships

• NVIDIA

  Inbound - Compute & Control - Humanoid's HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled uses NVIDIA Jetson Thor in the Siemens factory pilot

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• Schaeffler AG

  Inbound - actuation and motion control - Schaeffler's five-year contract covers over 50% of Humanoid's wheeled-platform joint-actuator demand through 2031

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• Bosch

  Inbound - Manufacturing Services - Bosch is contracted to manufacture Humanoid's HMND 01 robots for the European market

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• Schaeffler AG

  Outbound - Robot Systems - Humanoid contracted to supply wheeled robots to Schaeffler under RaaS, with the first phase planned from December 2026

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• 2026-07-21 - Series A - $152M - Humanoid closes $152M Series A at $1.35B valuation

  valuation: $1.35B - Humanoid completed a $152 million Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, bringing total funding to $270 million. - source: streetinsider.com

• Aglaé Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-21
• Bosch - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-07-21
• Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-21
• Prime Movers Lab - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-07-21
• Schaeffler - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-07-21

• Artem Sokolov - Founder and Chief Executive Officer
• Jarad Cannon - Chief Technology Officer - Technical executive overseeing the integrated robot platform.
• Sotirios Stasinopoulos - Chief Product Officer - Owns Humanoid product development and translation of research into deployable systems.
• Alina Kolpakova - Chief Strategy Officer - Connects market validation and company strategy to Humanoid commercialization.
• Kirk Rostron - Chief Business Officer - Leads Humanoid's U.S. capital formation, business development and government affairs from Washington, D.C., building strategic-capital, commercial-partnership and public-sector…
• Jochen Rudat - Chief Growth & Revenue Officer - Leads revenue strategy, pilots and customer partnerships.
• Boris Yangel - Head of AI - Leads the KinetIQ and robot-intelligence engineering direction.
• Thomas Shepherd - Chief Operations Officer - Leads operating systems, manufacturing scale-up and delivery execution.
• Hessam Maleki - Head of Locomanipulation - Leads whole-body movement and manipulation development.
• Devin Billings - Head of Core Platform - Leads the core robot platform and prototype engineering team.
• Giulio Cerruti - Head of Control - Leads Humanoid control systems.
• Karim Shaban - Lead of Perception - Leads perception for Humanoid robot platforms.
• Adam Kelsall - Head of Product Management - Leads product-management execution for Humanoid platforms.
• Jason Kline - Head of Design - Leads product and industrial design for Humanoid.

Official technical material for Humanoid's HMND 01 platforms and KinetIQ AI framework. Dated announcements and general press coverage remain in the timeline rather than this library.

• Humanoid brand guidelines

  PDF · Corporate brand · Humanoid

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• KinetIQ: AI Stack Overview

  WEB · KinetIQ · Humanoid

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• KinetIQ Ascend: Toward reliable manipulation and superhuman speed

  WEB · KinetIQ Ascend · Humanoid

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Events

• 2026-07-21 - Funding - Humanoid closes $152M Series A at $1.35B valuation

  Prime Movers Lab led the completed round, with Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures participating. Humanoid said the capital will support its next-generation robot platform, KinetIQ expansion, commercial deployments and the start of mass manufacturing for its wheeled robots. Beta deployments are planned from Q4 2026 across manufacturing, logistics, retail and other industrial settings; Bosch is a contract-manufacturing partner.

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• 2026-07-14 - Award - Humanoid and Schaeffler win Plug and Play Global Innovation Award

  The award was presented through STARTUP AUTOBAHN powered by Plug and Play following the Expo 2026 programme. Schaeffler describes the collaboration as supporting scalable humanoid robotics for industrial use. The recognition follows the companies' phased deployment and supply agreement for humanoids in live manufacturing operations.

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• 2026-06-25 - Capability - Humanoid introduces KinetIQ Ascend for real-world RL manipulation

  The technology post describes real-hardware reinforcement learning on production manipulation tasks. Reported task results include machine feeding, item handover and bimanual tote handling. The post links the work to industrial production-line and warehouse reliability targets.

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• 2026-05-21 - Partnership - Humanoid signs Bosch contract-manufacturing partnership

  The March trial involved autonomous conveyor-to-trolley transfer across five box sizes with differing footprints, heights and weights. Bosch will provide contract manufacturing and Design for Excellence support covering hardware design, production, supply chain and cost optimisation.

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• 2026-05-13 - Partnership - Humanoid signs phased deployment agreement with Schaeffler for thousands of humanoid robots

  Humanoid signed a binding phased deployment and supply agreement with Schaeffler to integrate humanoid robots into live manufacturing operations. The first systems are scheduled to go live in Germany before the end of 2026, with the initial phase running across Herzogenaurach and Schweinfurt from December 2026 through June 2027. The agreement targets a four-digit number of wheeled units across Schaeffler’s global facilities by 2032 and includes a five-year actuator supply agreement with Schaeffler as preferred supplier.

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• 2026-03-30 - Demonstration - Humanoid completes live HMND PoC with SAP and Martur Fompak

  • Humanoid, in collaboration with SAP and Martur Fompak, completed a proof of concept in a live production logistics environment. • The HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled robot received task instructions from the SAP AI agent, autonomously navigated to designated pallets, retrieved... • The robot repeated this cycle as part of the order-fulfillment flow, demonstrating its integration into existing warehouse operations.

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• 2026-03-30 - Deployment - Humanoid completes logistics proof of concept with SAP and Martur Fompak

  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.

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• 2026-03-25 - Market Signal - Humanoid reports 34,000 nonbinding preorders

  The indications carried an implied annual recurring revenue figure of approximately US$2.4 billion, contingent on conversion to contracts. The company’s pilot work covered tote handling, intelligent kitting and bearing-ring picking in industrial environments.

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• 2026-02-05 - Product Launch - Humanoid unveils KinetIQ AI framework for robot fleet orchestration

  • Humanoid introduced KinetIQ, an AI framework designed for end-to-end orchestration of humanoid robot fleets. • The system operates through a four-layered architecture, managing tasks from fleet-level goal assignment to millisecond-level joint control. • KinetIQ was demonstrated coordinating both wheeled industrial robots and bipedal R&D platforms.

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• 2026-01-20 - Demonstration - Humanoid completes automotive demonstration at Ford Innovation Centre

  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.

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• 2026-01-15 - Deployment - Humanoid and Siemens complete logistics proof of concept

  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.

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• 2026-01-13 - Partnership - Schaeffler and Humanoid enter strategic technology partnership

  Schaeffler and Humanoid entered a strategic technology partnership for humanoid motion systems. Schaeffler will provide motion components including planetary gear actuator technologies. The collaboration also includes planned deployments of humanoid robots in Schaeffler operations.

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• 2026-01-06 - Capability - Humanoid adopts NVIDIA compute and simulation stack

  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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• 2025-12-02 - Product Launch - Humanoid unveils HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal

  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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• 2025-09-19 - Product Launch - Humanoid launches HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled for industrial pilots

  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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• 2025-06-05 - Demonstration - Humanoid Demonstrates Pre-Alpha Prototype at STARTUP AUTOBAHN Expo 2025

  Humanoid showcased the pre-alpha prototype of its general-purpose humanoid robot, HMND 01, at STARTUP AUTOBAHN Expo 2025 in Stuttgart. The demonstration highlighted HMND 01's capabilities, including natural dialogue, face-tracked head movement, and context-aware visual feedback. The event marked a significant milestone for Humanoid, occurring just one year after the company's founding.

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Relationships

• SAP

  Enterprise Workflow Integration Partner - Humanoid integrated HMND 01 and KinetIQ with SAP enterprise workflows for an automotive-logistics proof of concept.

• NVIDIA

  Platform Support - Humanoid is named among robotics leaders building on NVIDIA Cosmos and Isaac technologies.

• Martur Fompak

  Industrial Proof Of Concept Customer - Humanoid completed a live automotive-logistics proof of concept with Martur Fompak using HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled.

Market context

HMND 01

Comparable profiles

• Reflex Robotics

  comparable profile - Wheeled Humanoid Builder

• DexForce

  comparable profile - Humanoid Industrial Builder · Wheeled Humanoid Builder

• Foundation Robotics

  stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion

• UBTECH Robotics

  stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion

• Figure AI

  stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion

• Agility Robotics

  stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion

• Zhejiang Humanoid

  stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion

• RobotEra

  stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion

• Apptronik

  stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion

• Unitree

  stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion

• 1X Technologies

  stack adjacency - Bipedal Locomotion

Shared workflows

• Anyware Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Warehouse Box Handling

• Servo7

  workflow adjacency - Warehouse Box Handling

• Contoro Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Warehouse Box Handling

• Persona AI

  workflow adjacency - Industrial Task Execution

• Holiday Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Industrial Task Execution

• Avatar Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Material Handling

• Youibot

  workflow adjacency - Industrial Mobile Manipulation

• Verne Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Industrial Mobile Manipulation

• Moying Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Industrial Mobile Manipulation

• Maven Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Industrial Mobile Manipulation

• Collaborative Robotics

  workflow adjacency - Material Handling

• Jungheinrich

  workflow adjacency - Material Handling

Context tags

• Material handling - Workflow - HMND 01 has completed named industrial material-handling proofs of concept.
• Humanoid industrial builder - Peer Group - HMND describes commercially scalable humanoid robots and lists HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal.
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - HMND builds complete humanoid robot systems.
• Factories - Customer Environment - Reuters reports planned Schaeffler factory deployments.
• Industrial task execution - Workflow - Reuters reports planned Schaeffler deployments for box handling and factory testing.
• Warehouse box handling - Workflow - Reuters reports an initial deployment for box handling at Schaeffler.
• Industrial mobile manipulation - Workflow - The wheeled Alpha is an industrial mobile manipulator for factory logistics and workstation tasks.
• Bipedal locomotion - Capability - Humanoid develops a bipedal Alpha platform alongside its commercially focused wheeled platform.
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Large planned deployment is reported, but initial deployment starts later and should not be treated as complete fleet scale.
• Wheeled humanoid builder - Peer Group - Humanoid builds a wheeled humanoid platform alongside its bipedal Alpha.