Recently, hardly per week goes by with out some humanoid robotics information. Final week, London-based Humanoid provided a primary take a look at its HMND 01 robotic in motion. The startup stated the video above demonstrates the humanoid’s mechanical design, movement management, and synthetic intelligence integration.
Serial entrepreneur Artem Sokolov based Humanoid.ai in 2024. The firm, often known as SKL Robotics Ltd., stated its mission is to develop commercially scalable, secure, and general-purpose humanoid robots.
Humanoid has introduced collectively consultants in robotics, AI, and industrial design to create clever, adaptable robots. It stated HMND 01 marks “a significant step in direction of environment friendly human-robot collaboration.”
“At Humanoid, our group believes in a future the place people and machines work aspect by aspect, not in competitors, however in concord,” acknowledged Sokolov. “This societal shift will handle social points similar to workforce shortages and growing older inhabitants whereas giving folks extra freedom to deal with extra inventive and significant work. The strongest argument in favor of humanoids is that the world is already designed for people, to allow them to seamlessly combine and shortly adapt to present environments.”
HMND 01 has a modular design, ‘clothes’
Humanoid stated its next-generation HMND 01 stands 175 cm (5 ft., 9 in.) tall and weighs 70 kg (154 lb.). It could attain a strolling velocity of 1.5 m/s (5.4 kph or 3.3 mph), has a median runtime of 4 hours, can carry payloads as much as 15 kg (33 lb.).
The corporate claimed that HMND 01 achieves “human-level or increased” manipulation speeds for advanced duties and that it may possibly precisely navigate confined areas.
Humanoid added that it designed the robotic’s {hardware} and software program with a modular idea. Clients might incorporate completely different upper-body, lower-body, and end-effector configurations to make sure adaptability, higher meet their necessities, and scale back prices.
As well as, HMND 01 comes with a variety of interchangeable clothes to guard each its methods and the encompassing surroundings.
HMND 01 could be dressed with for cover and completely different functions. Supply: Humanoid
Humanoid plans for a number of use circumstances
Humanoid stated it constructed its robots with {hardware} and software program stability as core design ideas. The corporate stated they provide a low whole coast of possession (TCO) and are appropriate for mass commercialization.
HMND 01 is meant to effectively serve throughout varied use circumstances and industries, beginning with functions similar to items dealing with, selecting and packing, kitting, and half dealing with. The robotic might improve automation ranges in retail and manufacturing amenities, logistics and achievement facilities, and warehouses, stated Humanoid.
“With a world-class group, Humanoid has bold plans for the yr forward,” stated Sokolov. “In 2025, we plan to develop and take a look at our alpha prototype for 2 platforms — wheeled and bipedal. We’re additionally in ongoing discussions with main retail firms for potential pilot tasks.”
The variety of humanoid robots is rising, albeit from a really low preliminary determine. ABI Analysis has predicted that the worldwide marketplace for humanoids will expertise a compound annual progress price (CAGR) of 95% from 2022 to 2030, reaching a price of $6.5 billion (U.S.) by the tip of the last decade. The market analysis agency forecast that annual shipments might attain 1,000 models this yr and 182,000 models by 2030.
Additionally final week, humanoid developer Apptronik Inc. raised $350 million in Sequence A funding. Jeff Cardenas, co-founder and CEO of the Austin, Texas-based firm, mentioned his technique as a visitor on The Robotic Report Podcast.
On the 2025 Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston on April 30 and Could 1, periods will embrace “The State of Humanoids” and “Redesigning Atlas: Boston Dynamics on the Way forward for Humanoids.”
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