Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd) · industrial humanoid
HMND 01
bipedal Alpha
Legged version of HMND 01 aimed at future home and general uses, announced after the wheeled Alpha.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Company says it walked 48 hours after final assembly, five months from design to prototype.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd)Company · founded 2024 · London, United Kingdom$152M Series A at $1.35B valuation (July 2026, per company-cited Reuters/Forbes reports).
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for HMND 01 (bipedal Alpha) and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention HMND 01 (bipedal Alpha) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 4 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- Chip
- Jetson AGX Orin (NVIDIA)Jetson AGX Orin plus Intel i9 processors.
- Actuators & motors
- Not specified by Humanoid;
- Hands
- Modular end effectors: 12-DoF five-fingered hand or 1-DoF parallel gripper; end-effector force/torque sensors.
- Sensors & vision
- Six RGB cameras and two depth sensors in the head, wrist RGB cameras, six-microphone array, 6D force/torque sensors, haptic sensors, joint torque feedback.
- Compute
- NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX plus Intel i9 processors.
- Battery & power
- Swappable; three hours per the launch release, four hours average on the spec page.
- Materials & build
- Interchangeable protective garments.
- AI & software
- KinetIQ four-layer AI stack (fleet agent, VLM reasoning, VLA actions, whole-body controller); locomotion trained in NVIDIA Isaac Sim/Isaac Lab and walked 48 hours after final assembly.
- Other details
- 179 cm, 90 kg, 29 DoF excluding end effectors, 2 m/s max, 15 kg bimanual payload; built from design to prototype in five months.
Lineage
Every Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd) humanoid in order.
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- Join the waitlist
- Sold or delivered
- Not for sale; prototype.
- Where it is sold or used
- United Kingdom
News
The latest 4, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- 34,000 pre-orders and $2.4B pipeline reported
Humanoid's press list cites Forbes on its pre-order book (company-reported figures).
Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd) - $152M Series A at $1.35B valuation
Humanoid's press list cites Reuters and Forbes on the round.
Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd) - Schaeffler deal for up to 2,000 robots
Humanoid's press list cites Reuters on robots for Schaeffler plants.
Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd) - Bipedal Alpha unveiled
Humanoid showed a bipedal HMND 01 that walked 48 hours after assembly.
Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd)
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | HMND 01 (bipedal Alpha)Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd) |  4NE1 (3rd generation)NEURA RoboticsSame jobs: industrial, home · Both walk · Both in development |  MATRIX-1Matrix RoboticsSame jobs: home, industrial · Both walk · Both in development |  KengoGalaxea DynamicsSame jobs: industrial, home · Both walk · Both in development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025-12-02 | 2025-06-24 | 2024-12-26 | 2026-06-02 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | — | 180 cm | 180 cm | 140 cm |
| Weight | — | 50 kg | 67 kg | 40 kg |
| Joints | — | — | — | 23 |
| Speed | — | — | 7.6 km/h | — |
| Payload | — | 100 kg | 10 kg | 2 kg |
| Battery | — | — | 5 h | 2 h |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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