Humanoid, a London-based robotics developer, has announced the HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal. This is the company’s first humanoid robot, which it built from an initial design to working prototype in just five months.
The Alpha Bipedal achieved stable walking only 48 hours after final assembly, said Humanoid.
[The HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal is Humanoid’s second commercial system, following its mobile manipulator. | Source: Humanoid]
“The robot is capable of walking in straight and curved paths, turning in place, sidestepping, squatting, hopping, running, and performing precise manipulation,” Artem Sokolov, founder and CEO of the company.
“It can recover from pushes, coordinate with other humanoid robots, and interact with people using its head display, LEDs, speakers, and audio sensing,” he told The Robot Report. “Combined with our VLM/VLA-based framework, it can perform advanced reasoning and task execution.”
Alpha Bipedal stands at 179 cm (5 ft., 10 in.) tall with 29 degrees of freedom (DoF), excluding end effectors. The humanoid robot has a bimanual payload capacity of 15 kg (33 lb.). Its modular end effectors can be fitted with either 12-DoF, five-fingered hands or 1-DoF parallel grippers.
The robot’s head features six RGB cameras, two depth sensors, and a six-microphone array. Its body is equipped with haptic sensors, force/torque sensors, and joint torque feedback. These are all powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX and Intel i9 processors. Its battery provides three hours of swappable power, ensuring extended operation during testing and development.
