Hexagon AB has launched its first humanoid robot, AEON, designed for industrial applications to address labor shortages and meet customer needs.
AEON combines Hexagon's sensor suite with advanced locomotion, AI-driven mission control, and spatial intelligence, making it agile, versatile, and aware.
The humanoid robot is aimed at improving safety and driving autonomy in sectors like automotive, aerospace, manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics.
More robotics companies are developing humanoids, with commercial deployments slowly increasing.
AEON's capabilities include agility, awareness, versatility, and power autonomy through a battery-swapping mechanism.
Hexagon is partnering with Schaeffler and Pilatus to pilot AEON for manipulation, machine tending, part inspection, and reality-capture use cases.
The robotics division of Hexagon has partnerships with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Maxon to bring AEON to the market, with AEON powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Microsoft Azure platform.