# HMND 01 Alpha at Herzogenaurach: deployment

Canonical ID: `01106070-26f8-490d-8956-94f1f4565a25`

HMND 01 Alpha wheeled humanoid robot deployed at Schaeffler Group's Herzogenaurach production facility, Germany, under a binding phased RaaS agreement announced May 2026.

Herzogenaurach is Schaeffler's headquarters city in Bavaria. The Herzogenaurach site is the first of two German facilities in the initial deployment phase, with robots assigned to a live production box-handling use case starting December 2026. The rollout runs through June 2027 across the two German sites.

Under the agreement, Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd.) will deploy a four-digit number of wheeled HMND 01 Alpha units across Schaeffler's global production network by 2032, using a RaaS model that includes 24/7 technical support, fleet management via the KinetIQ framework, and ongoing hardware updates. Schaeffler is also a preferred actuator supplier to Humanoid, covering over 50 percent of HMND 01 joint requirements through 2031.

## Key facts

- **Use case:** Live production box handling
- **Deployment start:** December 2026
- **Phase:** Phase 1 of binding global RaaS rollout (2026-2032)
- **Fleet management:** KinetIQ framework
- **Contract type:** RaaS (Robot-as-a-Service), binding phased agreement

**Trust tier:** Catalog entry · 1 source · not yet field-verified

_Last updated: 2026-06-12_

- **Slug:** hmnd-01-alpha-schaeffler-herzogenaurach
- **Status:** announced
- **Model:** [HMND 01 Alpha](/models/humanoid-hmnd-01-alpha.md) (id: `6e121718-c99f-4708-90ac-3e160baad119`)
- **Company:** [Humanoid](/companies/humanoid-ltd.md) (id: `923d02ff-48f1-4382-b67c-891b373d464c`)
- **Location:** [Herzogenaurach](/locations/herzogenaurach.md) (id: `1ebbfb61-8e1f-49f9-aaf1-c0e8deed8f91`)
- **Operator:** [Schaeffler Group](/companies/schaeffler.md) (id: `e6a01d9f-0abd-4222-92de-bae67576e4f6`)
- **First seen:** 2026-05-14T00:00:00.000Z

## Verification log (0, append-only)

_No verifications recorded._

## Sources (1)

1. **Scale at Speed: Humanoid and Schaeffler Move to Massive Multi-Thousand Unit Rollout** · https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/scale-at-speed-humanoid-and-schaeffler-move-to-massive-multi-thousand-unit-rollout · 2026-05-14

## Common questions

### What is the HMND 01 Alpha deployment at Herzogenaurach?

HMND 01 Alpha, built by Humanoid, is recorded as a deployment at Herzogenaurach on the DEPLOY registry. Schaeffler Group operates the deployment.

### Who operates HMND 01 Alpha at Herzogenaurach?

Schaeffler Group operates this deployment as a customer of Humanoid, the manufacturer of HMND 01 Alpha.

### When did the HMND 01 Alpha deployment at Herzogenaurach go live?

The deployment is recorded as starting May 14, 2026 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.

### Is the HMND 01 Alpha deployment at Herzogenaurach still active?

As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, this deployment is announced but not yet operating.

### Have there been incidents at the HMND 01 Alpha deployment at Herzogenaurach?

No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.


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