en.Wedoany.com Reported - UK artificial intelligence and robotics company Humanoid has completed a proof of concept (POC) in collaboration with Siemens, successfully deploying the HMND 01 wheeled Alpha robot in industrial logistics. This POC marks the first step in a long-term strategic partnership between the two parties, aimed at testing the performance of humanoid robots in real-world industrial environments.
The POC focused on the "tote-to-conveyor depalletizing" task within Siemens' logistics process. The robot was required to autonomously pick up totes from a storage stack, transport them to a conveyor belt, and place them at a designated pick-up point for human operators, repeating the process until the stack was completely emptied. The entire process was conducted in two phases.
The first phase focused on internal development and demonstration, where the Humanoid team built a physical twin to support testing, optimization, and rapid iteration throughout the POC period. This phase was successfully completed.
The second phase involved a two-week on-site deployment at Siemens' electronic factory in Erlangen, where partners evaluated robot performance in a real production environment. The joint POC measured the performance and reliability of the humanoid robot under autonomous operation, with all target indicators fully met. Specific data included: a throughput of 60 tote transfers per hour, handling two different sizes of totes, continuous autonomous task execution for over 30 minutes, and runtime exceeding 8 hours. The team also assessed overall pick-and-place success rate and autonomous pick-and-place success rate, both exceeding 90%.
Humanoid and Siemens view this POC as the beginning of a long-term strategic collaboration, with plans to expand the scope and add more use cases in the future. The two parties may deploy more humanoid robots across Siemens facilities based on the specific skill sets of the robots.
Artem Sokolov, founder and CEO of Humanoid, stated that the company focuses on creating robots capable of delivering measurable value in real-world environments, and close collaboration with industrial and technology partners helps validate systems based on actual operational needs. Stephan Schlauss, Global Head of Manufacturing Motion Control at Siemens AG, noted that the Erlangen electronic factory, as Siemens' customer zero, is addressing production automation and aims to advance the application of this technology across the factory network.
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