HMND 01 Alpha

The Siemens Electronics Factory trial in Erlangen, Germany ran for two weeks in January 2026, based on The Robot Report’s April 17, 2026 coverage noting the trial concluded shortly before the Hannover Messe announcement. The HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled operated in live production conditions alongside human workers and other automated systems. Tasks consisted of tote-destacking operations: removing stacked containers from storage and placing them on conveyors for downstream human processing.

Per the Siemens press release (April 16, 2026): throughput reached 60 tote moves per hour; autonomous uptime exceeded 8 hours; overall pick-and-place success rates exceeded 90 percent. Two different tote sizes were handled. Extended autonomous runs of over 30 consecutive minutes were documented in third-party coverage (Interesting Engineering, January 16, 2026, reporting on an earlier phase of the trial). The NVIDIA Jetson Thor compute stack and KinetIQ VLA framework were integral to the autonomous operation; Siemens Xcelerator portfolio integration was noted in the Siemens announcement.

Siemens and Humanoid announced a formalized collaboration following the trial, described in coverage as a reference architecture for humanoid robot deployment in industrial logistics. Humanoids Daily (April 21, 2026) reported a 30,000-unit pre-order backlog for the platform following the announcement. The Beta wheeled model remains targeted for Q3 2026; production-scale commitments tied to the Siemens partnership have not been published.

At the Schaeffler Group booth, CES 2026 (Las Vegas, January 6-9, 2026), the HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled performed autonomous bin picking of unsorted metallic bearing rings. The robot retrieved individual rings from cluttered bins and placed them onto a buffer table without operator input between cycles. The Schaeffler representative described the workflow as “press one button, and everything is automated from there,” per Interesting Engineering’s on-floor reporting.

The demo unit is the same wheeled Alpha configuration documented at the September 2025 reveal: 220 cm, 300 kg, 29-DOF dual-arm assembly, NVIDIA Jetson Thor compute, KinetIQ VLA inference. No hardware changes between the reveal and CES 2026 appearance were documented. The five-fingered dexterous hand end-effector was used for the bearing-ring pick task based on available footage descriptions.

The CES 2026 appearance marked the first North American public showing of the wheeled Alpha. The bipedal HMND 01 Alpha variant (179 cm, 90 kg, 5.4 km/h walking speed) was also announced in the December 2025 to January 2026 period, per The Robot Report’s January 9, 2026 coverage, though the CES floor demonstration focused on the wheeled platform.

The HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled stands 220 cm tall (86.6 in) and weighs 300 kg, with an omnidirectional wheeled base reaching 7.2 km/h maximum speed. The dual-arm assembly spans 29 active degrees of freedom across both limbs. The platform accepts two modular end-effectors: a 12-DOF five-fingered dexterous hand for precision picking and a 1-DOF parallel gripper for high-cycle bin handling. Bimanual payload capacity is documented at 15 kg. Battery runtime is rated at 240 minutes (4 hours) under operational conditions.

NVIDIA Jetson Thor serves as the primary edge compute unit. Perception uses a 360-degree RGB camera array mounted at head height, combined with dual depth sensors for proximity and volumetric mapping. Force/torque sensing at 6D is documented on both arms. Inference runs the KinetIQ VLA (Vision-Language-Action) framework for task planning and manipulation policies. Policy training occurs in NVIDIA Isaac Lab via reinforcement learning; Humanoid reports hardware-ready policies generated within approximately 24 hours of simulation training.

Humanoid adopted a simulation-first pipeline, compressing a typical 18-24 month development cycle to seven months for the wheeled Alpha variant. The bipedal variant was developed in parallel and completed in five months according to company communications. Founder Artem Sokolov established the company in 2024 under SKL Robotics Ltd., headquartered in London.