HMND 01 Industrial Humanoid Robot
You cannot buy an HMND 01. Humanoid has never published a price, a store or an order form; the robot ships only into negotiated industrial partnerships such as the Schaeffler fleet agreement of May 2026. Series production does not start until August 2027, on a Bosch line in Germany.
US buyers: there is no US sales channel at all, and the July 2026 rule would catch a UK-designed, German-built robot on paper.
FCC Public Notice DA 26-786 of 28 July 2026 is written country-neutrally: anything not manufactured in the US with more than 65% domestic content counts as foreign-produced, which puts a robot designed in London and slated for series build at Bosch's Buhl plant inside the wording alongside Chinese machines. The rule blocks new FCC equipment authorization from that date; units authorized earlier keep selling and updating until 1 January 2029. Humanoid has published nothing about whether it holds or has sought a US authorization, so the status cannot be resolved from public information. In practice the point is moot today - the company has no US order channel, no published price, and every announced pilot and its entire production plan are European, despite offices in Boston and San Diego.
Europe only in practice: proofs of concept at Ford Cologne, Siemens and an SAP-linked supplier, plus a framework agreement with Schaeffler for up to 2,000 robots. All by enterprise agreement, none through a published sales channel, as of 31 Aug 2026.
As of 2026-08-31 · medium confidence — verify before you commit funds
What is the HMND 01 Industrial Humanoid Robot?
HMND 01 is the UK entry in industrial humanoids: warehouse work first, showroom stunts never.
HMND 01 is the first robot from Humanoid, a London company founded in 2024 that became Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn on 21 July 2026 with a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation. That round was led by Prime Movers Lab and included Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglae Ventures, taking the company's total raised to $270 million.
The name covers more than one machine, which is where most write-ups go wrong. There is the HMND 01 concept revealed in February 2025, the HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled mobile manipulator unveiled that September, and the HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal shown in December 2025. The three have different published numbers, and the wheeled one - not the walking one - is what Bosch has agreed to build at scale.
This page sticks to what Humanoid itself has published, plus deployments that a named customer confirmed. Everything else is marked as unknown, because in this category the invented spec sheet is the norm rather than the exception.
What the HMND 01 can — and can't — do today
+Does this out of the box
- Move totes, parcels and parts around an indoor industrial floor on an omnidirectional wheeled base at up to 7.2 km/h
- Carry a 15 kg payload (manufacturer figure)
- Swap between a 12-DOF five-finger hand and a parallel gripper depending on the task
- Run roughly four hours between charges (manufacturer figure)
- Walk, turn, squat, hop and run in the bipedal variant, using a reinforcement-learning controller
- Operate through customer proofs of concept alongside existing plant software - Siemens and SAP systems in two announced pilots
!Doesn't do, whatever the demo shows
- Be bought - there is no price, no store and no order channel as of 31 Aug 2026
- Work outdoors or on uneven ground; every published deployment is a flat indoor industrial floor
- Be programmed by a customer directly - no SDK, API or developer programme has been published
- Ship at volume before August 2027, when the Bosch line at Buhl is due to start
- Demonstrate any published uptime, cycle-time or task-success number from its pilots
The bipedal variant gets the attention, but the wheeled one is the product: it is what Bosch is tooling to build and what Schaeffler agreed to deploy. Judge the platform on the wheeled machine.
Which HMND 01 do you mean?
The February 2025 reveal described a 175 cm, 70 kg bipedal robot with 41 degrees of freedom, a 15 kg payload, 1.5 m/s walking and a 4-hour runtime. Treat those as design targets for a concept, not as a shipping product - no machine to that spec has been shown working.
What exists is the Alpha generation. HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled, unveiled in September 2025 after what the company says was seven months of development, is 220 cm tall and 300 kg, riding an omnidirectional wheeled base rated to 7.2 km/h. HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal, shown in December 2025, is 179 cm and 90 kg and walks. Both are quoted at 29 degrees of freedom excluding end-effectors, a 15 kg payload, 2 m/s maximum speed and about four hours of runtime.
If a spec sheet elsewhere gives you 175 cm and 41 DOF for a robot photographed on wheels, it has merged the concept with the product.
What Humanoid has actually published
The sensing package is described in reasonable detail for this stage: a head unit carrying 360-degree RGB cameras and two depth sensors, 6D force/torque sensing, RGB cameras in the wrists, haptic feedback and a six-microphone array. End-effectors are modular - a 12-DOF five-finger hand, or a single-DOF parallel gripper, chosen per task. The protective garments are swappable too, which sounds like a styling note but is really about washdown and cleanroom variants.
The software stack is called KinetIQ: four layers, running on NVIDIA compute, with a learning layer branded KinetIQ Ascend. On the bipedal variant the locomotion controller is trained with reinforcement learning, and Humanoid's claim - repeated by The Robot Report in December 2025 - is that the robot walked stably 48 hours after assembly.
What is not published: battery capacity, charge or swap time, payload at full reach, noise, IP rating, uptime in any pilot, and anything about safety certification. There is no SDK, no developer programme and no public code repository.
Where it has actually done work
This is the strongest part of the story, and it is unusual for a company this young. Trade coverage in January and again in March 2026 reported an HMND 01 Alpha proof of concept at Ford's plant in Cologne. Siemens completed a logistics proof of concept with the robot in January 2026 and ran further tests in April. In March 2026 Humanoid announced a live proof of concept with SAP and automotive supplier Martur Fompak.
Then the commercial step: on 13 May 2026 Reuters reported an agreement to deploy up to 2,000 robots across Schaeffler plants - described at the time as the largest publicly announced commercial humanoid agreement. Schaeffler then invested in the July funding round, which is worth noticing when you read the deployment number.
None of these are steady-state production deployments. "Up to 2,000" is a ceiling in a framework agreement, not a delivered fleet, and no party has published how many units are working today or what they cost per hour to run.
Who builds it, and where
In May 2026 Humanoid signed a manufacturing partnership with Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH. In August 2026 Bosch confirmed the line: its Buhl plant in Germany, starting August 2027, producing the wheeled generation. Reported capacity earmarked at the site runs to 100,000 units, but the near-term plan is modest - several hundred units in 2027.
So the supply chain is European end to end. Designed in London, built in the Black Forest, with Schaeffler as both parts supplier and anchor customer. That vertical arrangement is the company's main advantage over better-funded American rivals, and it is also the reason the US regulatory picture is awkward.
Price: there isn't one, and that is the honest answer
Humanoid has never published a price for HMND 01, in any currency, at any volume. There is no store, no reservation page, no deposit. Third-party "humanoid robot price" guides that list a number for it are extrapolating from other machines.
Nor is there a published robots-as-a-service rate. The Schaeffler deal looks structurally like a fleet or service arrangement rather than 2,000 outright purchases, but neither company has disclosed the commercial terms. Analyst figures floating around the category - roughly $2 per operating hour at scale, excluding the purchase or lease itself - are industry projections, not a Humanoid quote.
If you need a number for a business case, the only defensible move as of 31 August 2026 is to request a quote and treat any published figure as unsourced.
Can a US buyer get one? The July 2026 authorization rule
Short version: unclear, and not for the reason most people assume.
On 28 July 2026 the FCC issued Public Notice DA 26-786, adding foreign-produced robotic equipment to the Covered List. The press framed it as a ban on Chinese robots. The text is country-neutral: "foreign-produced" means anything that fails the Buy American test - US assembly plus more than 65% domestic content. British, German, Japanese and Canadian machines are caught by that wording just as squarely, and the law firms reading the notice have said so.
HMND 01 is designed in the UK and will be built in Germany. On the face of the rule it is foreign-produced. What the rule blocks is new FCC equipment authorization from 28 July onward; anything authorized before that date can keep being sold and updated until 1 January 2029. It is not a customs ban and it is not a recall.
The unknown is whether Humanoid ever sought a US authorization. The company has offices in Boston, Vancouver and San Diego, but every announced pilot and the entire production plan are European, and it has published nothing about US certification. So the status here is genuinely unresolved rather than closed - and since there is no US sales channel to begin with, the practical effect on a US buyer today is the same either way.
What is still unknown
A lot, and the gaps are the useful part. No price. No battery figures. No published uptime, cycle time or task success rate from any of the four pilots. No safety certification statement. No SDK or developer access. No confirmation of whether the Beta generation targeted for Q4 2026 is a new machine or a refined Alpha, and no spec sheet for the "Gamma" generation that Bosch is reportedly tooling for in 2027.
Humanoid's own roadmap puts physical industrial tasks at 2027, service roles at 2030 and household work at 2035. Read that as a fundraising timeline as much as an engineering one; every company in this category has published a similar ladder, and none has yet delivered the first rung at volume.
The HMND 01 on video
Hands-on reviews and teardowns, picked for what they actually show rather than how loud the thumbnail is.
The original reveal from the company itself - useful mainly to see how far the shipping Alpha machines drifted from the concept's numbers.
The wheeled mobile manipulator that is actually going into production, shown by the maker at unveiling.
The walking variant, including the reinforcement-learning gait the company says was stable 48 hours after assembly.
The closest thing to evidence of real work: the Siemens logistics proof of concept, filmed on the plant floor rather than in a studio.
Who the HMND 01 is — and isn't — for
+Where it shines
- Open developer access (SDK/API) — good for builders and labs.
- Stated real-world payload (15 kg on both Alpha variants).
!Watch-outs
- Sold to businesses only — not to private buyers.
How the HMND 01 stacks up
Side by side with similar robots — the one you're reading about is highlighted.
| This robot Humanoid HMND 01 | PNDbotics PNDbotics Adam |  PAL Robotics PAL Robotics ARI |  NEURA Robotics NEURA Robotics 4NE-1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (US) | Not published in any market as of 31 Aug 2026 | $99,999 – $145,000 | $35,000 – $90,000 | $65,000 – $105,000 |
| Availability | Enterprise pilot and partnership deployment only - no public price, no order channel, not sold to consumers or researchers as of 31 Aug 2026 | On the market | On the market | Reservations open |
| Height | Alpha Wheeled 220 cm; Alpha Bipedal 179 cm. The original 2025 HMND 01 concept was specified at 175 cm | 1.67 m | 1.65 m | 180 cm |
| Payload | 15 kg on both Alpha variants | ~5 kg | ~0.5 kg per arm | Arms rated ~20 kg; up to 100 kg lifting in leg-supported/full-body configurations |
| DoF | 29 | Lite | ~12 | Hands |
| Buyer | Enterprise | Enterprise | Individuals | Enterprise |
| Made in | Other | Other | Other | Other |
What the HMND 01 costs — and how to get one
Enterprise inquiry only; no self-serve order path
Leasing / RaaS: unknown - no lease, subscription or per-hour RaaS terms have been announced, though the Schaeffler agreement is a…
Every spec, grouped & sourced
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Claims vs evidence
KinetIQ, a proprietary four-layer AI stack running on NVIDIA compute, with a learning layer the company calls KinetIQ Ascend. Locomotion on the bipedal variant is a reinforcement-learning controller; Humanoid says the robot walked stably 48 hours after assembly. No general autonomy is claimed - tasks are demonstrated in structured industrial settings
Where it's working
Proof of concept at Ford's Cologne plant (reported January and March 2026); logistics proof of concept completed with Siemens (January 2026, further testing April 2026); joint proof of concept with SAP and supplier Martur Fompak (March 2026); agreement with Schaeffler to deploy up to 2,000 robots across Schaeffler plants (13 May 2026)
Intended use cases: Industrial labour: intralogistics, material handling, line feeding, tote and parcel movement in manufacturing, warehousing and retail back-of-house
Should you consider the HMND 01?
One of the better-evidenced pre-production humanoids in this catalog, and one of the least purchasable. Humanoid has done the hard part backwards from most of its rivals: real proofs of concept at Ford, Siemens and an SAP-linked supplier, a named 2,000-unit framework with Schaeffler, and a contract manufacturer with a dated production line - all before publishing a price or a spec-sheet fantasy. What you get in return for that discipline is a robot nobody can order. If you are a large European industrial with a Bosch or Schaeffler relationship, this is worth a conversation in 2027. For everyone else, including every US buyer, it is a company to watch rather than a product to evaluate.
Score reflects stated criteria (availability, data confidence, US relevance) — not hands-on testing or user ratings. We're an independent review & comparison site; we don't sell robots. *Financing figure is illustrative.
How we know this
Data confidence 74/100 · last verified 2026-08-31. Specs are labelled official vs third-party and dated; unknowns are omitted, not guessed.
HMND 01 — your questions, answered in full
How much does the HMND 01 cost?+
Humanoid has not published a price, in any market, as of 31 August 2026. There is no store, no deposit and no published lease or per-hour rate. Any figure you see quoted for it on a comparison site is extrapolated from other robots.
Can I buy an HMND 01?+
No. It is sold only through negotiated industrial agreements - the Schaeffler fleet deal of May 2026 is the template. It is not available to consumers, universities or as a research platform.
Is the HMND 01 bipedal or wheeled?+
Both exist. HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled (220 cm, 300 kg) rides an omnidirectional wheeled base; HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal (179 cm, 90 kg) walks. The wheeled version is the one going into series production with Bosch in August 2027.
Who makes the HMND 01?+
Humanoid, a London robotics and AI company founded in 2024 by Artem Sokolov. It raised $152 million in July 2026 at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn, with $270 million raised in total. Manufacturing is a partnership with Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH.
Is the HMND 01 banned in the US?+
Unclear. FCC Public Notice DA 26-786 of 28 July 2026 added foreign-produced robotic equipment to the Covered List, and the wording is country-neutral - a UK-designed, German-built robot fails the Buy American test just as a Chinese one does. But the rule blocks new FCC equipment authorization only, and Humanoid has never published whether it holds or sought one. With no US sales channel, the question is currently academic.
Where has the HMND 01 actually been used?+
Four named engagements: a proof of concept at Ford's Cologne plant (reported January and March 2026), a completed logistics proof of concept with Siemens (January 2026, extended in April), a joint proof of concept with SAP and supplier Martur Fompak (March 2026), and an agreement with Schaeffler covering up to 2,000 robots across its plants (13 May 2026). None has published performance data.
How long does the HMND 01 run on a charge?+
About four hours, per Humanoid's own spec sheet for both Alpha variants. Battery capacity, charge time and whether packs are hot-swappable are not published, which matters for anyone modelling a multi-shift deployment.
When will the HMND 01 ship in volume?+
Not before August 2027. That is when Bosch's Buhl plant in Germany is due to start building the wheeled generation, initially in the low hundreds of units for 2027. A Beta generation is targeted for Q4 2026, but Humanoid has not said whether that is a customer-shipping machine.