Hmnd 01
Modular general-purpose humanoid robot for industrial work
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HMND 01 is a modular, general-purpose humanoid robot developed by the UK company Humanoid (SKL Robotics). It is built around the company's VLM- and VLA-based KinetIQ framework and uses a modular hardware and software architecture so upper-body, lower-body, and end-effector configurations can be swapped per task. The Alpha Bipedal unit is positioned as a labour-automation platform aimed at warehousing, logistics, and retail use cases.
Released: 2025
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Overview
HMND 01 is the first humanoid robot from Humanoid, a UK-based AI and robotics startup operating as SKL Robotics and founded by Artem Sokolov. It is designed as a general-purpose labour-automation unit intended to work alongside people in industrial settings such as warehouses, logistics hubs, and retail facilities.
The robot is built on a modular hardware and software design, letting customers combine different upper-body, lower-body, and end-effector configurations to fit a given task and reduce total cost of ownership. Its end-effectors can be swapped between a multi-fingered dexterous hand and a parallel gripper depending on the manipulation required.
HMND 01 is powered by the company's KinetIQ framework, which combines vision-language and vision-language-action models for end-to-end reasoning, running on NVIDIA-based onboard processing. The Alpha Bipedal version is a development and testing unit, with the company describing a later Beta version on its roadmap.
Key Features
- Modular hardware and software architecture allowing interchangeable upper-body, lower-body, and end-effector configurations
- Swappable end-effectors offering either a dexterous multi-fingered hand or a parallel gripper for different tasks
- AI-driven, end-to-end reasoning and skills via the KinetIQ vision-language-action framework on NVIDIA-based compute
- Rich onboard perception suite including 360-degree RGB cameras, depth sensors, wrist cameras, force/torque sensors, and a microphone array
- Bipedal locomotion supporting walking, turning, sidestepping, squatting, and push recovery
- Offered to customers under a robotics-as-a-service business model
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Mechanics
| Degrees of Freedom | 41 |
| Locomotion | Bipedal |
Performance
| Max Speed | 1.5 m/s |
| Payload Capacity | 15 kg |
Physical
| Weight | 70 kg |
| Height | 175 mm |
Power
| Battery Life | 4 hours |
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