Humanoid secures Bosch manufacturing partnership after HMND 01 POC
Humanoid announced a Bosch manufacturing partnership after a March 2026 HMND 01 intralogistics proof of concept in Bühl, Germany.
Why it matters
The Bosch agreement moves Humanoid from proof-of-concept validation toward European production support for HMND 01 robots.
Evidence notes
- Humanoid announced a Bosch partnership after a March 2026 proof of concept in Bühl, Germany.
- The POC used HMND 01 robots for an intralogistics workflow, transferring boxes from a conveyor to a trolley across five box sizes and varying dimensions and weights.
- Bosch will serve as Humanoid's contract manufacturing partner for HMND 01 production in Europe and support Design for Excellence work across hardware design, production, supply chain and cost optimization.
Company context
Humanoid is a UK robotics company developing the wheeled and bipedal HMND 01 platforms and the KinetIQ AI framework. The wheeled Alpha has completed industrial proofs of concept with Siemens, Ford, SAP, Martur Fompak, Bosch and Schaeffler. Bosch is its contract-manufacturing partner, and Schaeffler has agreed a phased four-digit deployment by 2032.