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HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal
United Kingdom · Development · 
Summary
HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal is Humanoid's full-size alpha prototype for developing bipedal control and perception, 29-DoF with RL whole-body control and modular hands/grippers; not a standard commercially orderable research robot.
Identity
Status
Development
Category
Humanoid
Type
Humanoid
Function
Biped development
Audience
Service R&D
Physical
HEIGHT
179cm
WEIGHT
90kg
PAYLOAD
15kg
Performance
DOF
29 (excl. end-effectors)
RUNTIME
4h
MAX SPEED
2 m/s
Manipulation
END EFFECTORS
12-DoF 5-finger hand or 1-DoF parallel gripper
Systems
COMPUTE
KinetIQ 4-layer stack on NVIDIA
Other
SENSORS
RGB, depth, 6D force-torque, haptics
Video
Capabilities
DEMONSTRATED (30 Mar 2026) — Navigation and obstacle avoidance: HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled received task instructions from the SAP AI agent, autonomously navigated to designated pallets, retrieved items.
Height — ranked across 105 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #15
Weight — ranked across 88 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #9
Payload — ranked across 69 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #22
Degrees of freedom — ranked across 89 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #47
Comparable systems — same status tier
Other systems from Humanoid
Context & Benchmark
Related systems: Pudu D9 (Pudu Robotics), Vanar Gen1 (Vanar Robots), Kepler K2 (Kepler Robotics), 4NE1 (Neura Robotics), ALICE 4 (AeiROBOT), TLIBOT (Sichuan Tianlian).
Timeline
DEMONSTRATION (30 Mar 2026) — 'Humanoid completes live HMND PoC with SAP and Martur Fompak': proof of concept in live production logistics environment; HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled received task instructions from SAP AI agent, autonomously navigated to pallets, retrieved items, repeated cycle as part of order-fulfillment flow.
Deployments
COMMERCIAL ROLLOUT (13 May 2026) — Schaeffler: Humanoid's Schaeffler agreement targets deployment of a four-digit number of wheeled units across Schaeffler facilities by 2032 (staged rollout commitment, not delivered-unit evidence). Environment: Global. Product/scope: HMND 01 wheeled Schaeffler rollout.