HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal

Overview

HMND 01 is a humanoid robot platform positioned as a general-purpose system for embodied AI research. Publicly available data is limited to high-level demonstrations and conceptual positioning.

HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal stands 179 cm tall, weighs 90 kg, and has a dual-handed payload capacity of 15 kg, according to HMND. Top walking speed is 1.5 m/s (5.4 km/h). The robot has 29 degrees of freedom excluding end-effectors. End-effectors are modular: operators can swap between a 12-DOF five-finger hand and a 1-DOF parallel gripper. Battery runtime is listed as 3–5 hours. Sensors include RGB cameras, two depth sensors, LiDAR, ultrasonic sensors, IMU, gyroscope, and force sensors.

The robot runs on KinetIQ, HMND's proprietary AI framework combining Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action architectures, on NVIDIA Jetson Thor compute. Locomotion was trained using over 52.5 million seconds of reinforcement learning data in NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab before physical assembly — a process the company states took two days in simulation. HMND claims the robot achieved stable bipedal walking 48 hours after final assembly.

HMND is a UK-based startup founded by Artem Sokolov. The bipedal version was unveiled in December 2025. Confirmed partnerships include Bosch, Schaeffler, and Siemens, with proofs of concept completed or underway as of early 2026. No public pricing for the bipedal variant has been confirmed. The robot is not available for purchase as of mid-2026.

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