Deployment
HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany
Wheeled industrial-grade humanoid robot. 220cm tall, 29 active DOF, 7.2 km/h top speed, 15kg bimanual payload. 360-degree RGB cameras and dual depth sensors. Configurable end-effectors (12-DOF five-fingered hand or 1-DOF parallel gripper). Designed for bin picking, sorting, and materials handling in factory environments.
HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled by Humanoid · Operated by Schaeffler Group · Unverified · Humanoids
Recent coverage
- Humanoid Raises 52 Million At .35 Billion Valuation: Europe's Newest Robot UnicornForbes · 2026-07-21
- Humanoid Raises 152M Series A at 1.35B Valuationthehumanoid.ai · 2026-07-21
- Humanoid to deploy up to 2000 robots at Schaeffler plantsReuters · 2026-05-13
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- REST API: /v1/robots/57d46ab7-5ddf-4bc3-a0a0-13e133aa76c2
- Data documentation: /data
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Initial rollout Dec 2026-Jun 2027. Box handling at Herzogenaurach; testing near-full-scale at Schweinfurt. Plan covers 1,000-2,000 robots across Schaeffler's global sites by 2032. Separate 5-year actuator supply agreement (1M+ units).
Safety record
No incidents on record for HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Unverifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-07-23
- Company
- Humanoid
- Operator
- Schaeffler Group
- Status
- announced
- Operator type
- customer deployed
- First seen
- 2026-05-13
- ID
57d46ab7-5ddf-4bc3-a0a0-13e133aa76c2
Timeline
- May 2026First recordedHMND 01 Alpha Wheeled first documented operating at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany.
- Jul 2026Current status: announcedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
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Sources (1)
Methodology: Unreviewed · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-23
Verification posture
Unreviewed
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-23
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: pilot
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: humanoid
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany.Common questions
- What is the HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled deployment at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany?
- HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled, built by Humanoid, is recorded as a deployment at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany on the DEPLOY registry. Schaeffler Group operates the deployment.
- Who operates HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany?
- Schaeffler Group operates this deployment as a customer of Humanoid, the manufacturer of HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled.
- When did the HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled deployment at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany go live?
- The deployment is recorded as starting May 13, 2026 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
- Is the HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled deployment at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany 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 Wheeled deployment at Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany?
- 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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