HMND 01
Wheeled humanoid robot platform built by Humanoid.
HMND 01 is Humanoid's wheeled robot platform, unveiled alongside the London startup's $152m Series A on 21 July 2026, with beta units due to reach customers from the fourth quarter of 2026.
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Why does the HMND 01 roll on wheels instead of walking on legs?
Timeline for HMND 01
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HMND 01 is the wheeled Humanoid robot platform built by Humanoid, running the company's proprietary KinetIQ control system. Wheels rather than legs were chosen to help the platform clear European safety certification faster than a bipedal design, a practical trade-off aimed at commercial deployment speed over general-purpose mobility.
Schaeffler has agreed to deploy the platform across its manufacturing sites, and Bosch is contracted to build the units, though neither company has disclosed how many robots that covers. The platform's intended markets are logistics, manufacturing and retail, environments where wheeled mobility on flat factory and warehouse floors is less of a limitation than it would be in general-purpose settings.