🇬🇧Humanoid·United Kingdom·Pilot deployment

HMND 01

Humanoid(SKL Robotics)

A British general-purpose humanoid built for industrial labour, scaling from a wheeled platform to a bipedal body.

Pilot deploymentVerified Last verified 31 Oct 2026
Height175 cm
Degrees of freedom41
Arm payload15 kg
Top speed5.4 km/h
Battery life4 h
Starting pricePrice on request
First shown11 Feb 2025
StatusPilot deployment
Form factorFull-size
LocomotionBipedal
Updated31 Oct 2026

What it is

HMND 01 is the first humanoid from London-based Humanoid, unveiled on 11 February 2025 at 175 cm, 70 kg and 41 degrees of freedom. The modular design pairs a 15 kg payload and four-hour runtime with interchangeable upper bodies, lower bodies and end effectors. Humanoid has since added the 220 cm, 300 kg HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled and the 179 cm, 90 kg Alpha Bipedal, both rated at 29 DOF excluding end effectors, and has run industrial proofs of concept with Schaeffler, Siemens, SAP and Martur Fompak.

Highlights

01Unveiled 11 February 2025 as Humanoid's first robot.
0241 DOF and 15 kg payload on the original HMND 01.
03Modular upper body, lower body and end effectors.
04Alpha Wheeled (220 cm, 300 kg) and Alpha Bipedal (179 cm, 90 kg) variants with 29 DOF.
05Industrial POCs with Schaeffler, Siemens, SAP and Martur Fompak; 2,000-robot Schaeffler deployment announced.

The numbers

Body
Height175 cm
Weight70 kg
Form factorFull-size
Motion & power
LocomotionBipedal
Degrees of freedom41
DOF breakdown41 DOF on the original HMND 01; Alpha Wheeled and Alpha Bipedal are listed at 29 DOF excluding end effectors.
Arm payload15 kg
Top speed5.4 km/h
Battery life4 h
Battery swapYes
ActuatorsProprietary electric rotary actuators; the Alpha variants use 29 DOF excluding end effectors.
Compute, sensing & hands
ComputeNVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin and Intel i9 processors running the KinetIQ AI stack; KinetIQ Ascend adds reinforcement-learning training.
SensingHead with 360-degree RGB cameras and two depth sensors, wrist RGB cameras, 6D force/torque sensors, end-effector force/torque and haptic sensors; the bipedal Alpha adds a six-microphone array.
HandsModular 12-DOF five-fingered hand or 1-DOF parallel gripper.
Hand DOF12

Platform & deployment

AvailabilityEarly-access programme; industrial pilots under way in Europe, with volume deployment planned rather than full commercial sale as of 2026.
Target marketIndustrial logistics and manufacturing first, then service and home applications.
Software / OSKinetIQ four-layer AI orchestration stack with KinetIQ Ascend reinforcement learning, built on NVIDIA compute.
Deployments & partnersIndustrial proofs of concept with Schaeffler, Siemens, SAP and Martur Fompak; early-access customers.
Safety & certificationsInterchangeable protective garments, force/torque sensing and haptic feedback; no published safety certification.
VariantsHMND 01 (original, 175 cm / 70 kg / 41 DOF) · HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled (220 cm / 300 kg / 29 DOF) · HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal (179 cm / 90 kg / 29 DOF)

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