Facts

• Company: Hexagon
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: prototype
• Capability focus: Industrial Manipulation Inspection
• Website: https://robotics.hexagon.com/product

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

AEON is Hexagon industrial humanoid robot for manipulation, inspection, reality capture and operator-assistance tasks. It combines spatial intelligence, sensor integration, mission control and omnidirectional mobility for work in industrial environments.

Overview

AEON is Hexagon industrial humanoid robot for manipulation, inspection, reality capture and operator-assistance tasks. It combines spatial intelligence, sensor integration, mission control and omnidirectional mobility for work in industrial environments.

Market context

AEON is Hexagon industrial humanoid for manipulation, inspection, reality capture and operator tasks in factory environments, leveraging Hexagon sensing and metrology stack.

• Target environment: Factory floors, industrial facilities and structured manufacturing environments.
• Workflow context: Industrial manipulation, inspection, reality capture and operator support in factory environments.
• Customer context: Industrial manufacturers and factory operators integrating humanoid platforms with existing automation.
• Deployment model: Development-stage platform tied to Hexagon industrial sensing ecosystem.
• Commercial maturity: Active industrial humanoid platform with pilot-stage deployment and BMW partnership context.
• Adoption constraints: Humanoid deployment in factories is still early. Integration with existing sensing and automation stacks determines deployment speed.
• Market position: Stands out because it is tied to Hexagon industrial sensing and metrology stack, not just a generic humanoid pitch.
• Adjacent products: Apollo, Digit, Agile ONE

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Industrial manipulation, inspection, reality capture and operator support in factory environments.

Capability

industrial_manipulation_inspection

Deployment environment

Factory floors, industrial facilities and structured manufacturing environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Industrial manipulation, inspection, reality capture and operator support in factory environments.
• Capability: industrial_manipulation_inspection
• Deployment environment: Factory floors, industrial facilities and structured manufacturing environments.

Specifications

• Height: 165 cm
• Weight: 60 kg
• Speed: 2.4 m/s
• Payload Capacity: 15 kg short-term; 8 kg constant carry
• Dof: 34
• Runtime: Up to 4 hours per charge
• Battery System: Auto-swap battery system for continuous work
• Perception System: Sensor fusion and AI-based spatial intelligence
• Operational Environment: Industrial environments

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
• Capability: Whole-body control
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 2026-04-28 - Partnership - Hexagon Robotics and Fill partner to pilot AEON humanoid in manufacturing workflows - Hexagon Robotics and Fill Maschinenbau announced a collaboration to explore humanoids alongside Fill's man…
• 2026-01-07 - Partnership - Hexagon Robotics Partners with Microsoft Azure to Advance Industrial Humanoid AI - • Hexagon Robotics announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to advance humanoid robots, focusing on d…
• 2025-06-17 - Product Launch - Hexagon Launches AEON Humanoid Robot for Industrial Applications - AEON combines advanced locomotion, sensor fusion, and AI-based spatial intelligence to address labor shortages in industri…

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Named Pilot Site - 1 named pilot site - 2026-04-28 - Fill Maschinenbau - advanced manufacturing - Hexagon says AEON will be piloted at Fill Maschinenbau in Gurten, Austria across machine tending, inspection, and operati…
• Customer Bound Units - at least 1,000 robots - 2026-04-22 - Schaeffler - global factory network - Hexagon and Schaeffler said Schaeffler plans to deploy at least 1,000 AEON humanoids across its global production system…
• Named Pilot Site - 1 named pilot site - 2026-03-09 - BMW Group - automotive manufacturing - BMW Group said Plant Leipzig is launching its first European pilot project involving a humanoid robot with Hexagon Robotics AEO…

Comparable Systems

• PUDU D9 - Pudu Robotics - Anthropomorphic Biped
• IRON - XPeng Inc. - Humanoid
• Calvin-40 - Wandercraft - Humanoid
• Kepler K2 - Kepler Robotics - Humanoid
• Apollo - Apptronik - Humanoid
• Atlas - Boston Dynamics - Humanoid
• Walker X - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Phoenix - Sanctuary AI - Humanoid