cleaning
Material handling and machine tending in live plants
Real-world demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Mixed / assisted
- Human intervention
- Pilot supervision; details undisclosed
Research record R-002Pilot deployment
AEON
By Hexagon Robotics · Sweden · announced June 2025
The measurement giant's wheeled humanoid, running the first humanoid pilot in German automotive production at BMW Leipzig.
Broader research scope
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Research summary
What the record says.
AEON is the humanoid from Hexagon, the Swedish industrial-measurement group, unveiled in June 2025 and built around a pragmatic choice: wheels instead of legs. The 165 centimeter, 60 kilogram robot with a 15 kilogram payload and 34 degrees of freedom trades stairs for reliability, and leans on Hexagon's core business, precision sensing, for its perception stack.
Its deployment record filled out fast. BMW ran a first test at Plant Leipzig in December 2025, a second from April 2026, and announced a full pilot in high-voltage battery assembly from summer 2026, the first humanoid pilot in German automotive production. Schaeffler, an investor and early pilot customer, plans a fleet rollout starting at the end of 2026 with a stated ambition of at least 1,000 units by 2032.
AEON is not for sale on any price list; it moves through enterprise programs, and its evidence is the two blue-chip names testing it.
Delivery evidence
Announcement is not arrival.
Real-world demo
BMW Leipzig tests (Dec 2025, Apr 2026) with full pilot from summer 2026; Schaeffler pilot and fleet plan
Capability ledger
What has actually been shown?
2 material claims are separated by evidence setting and human involvement. The strongest recorded signal is Real-world demo; it does not automatically transfer to every row.
security
Facility scanning and inspection
Controlled demoVerified July 2026
- Control mode
- Autonomous
- Human intervention
- Not disclosed
Hardware record.
- Height
- 165 cm
- Weight
- 60 kg
- Locomotion
- Wheeled base with articulated upper body
- Payload
- 15 kg
- Runtime
- Shift-scale with swap charging (company statements)
- Charging
- Dock
- Top speed
- Factory speeds
- Degrees of freedom
- 34
- Hands
- Grippers; tool integration
- Face / expression
- Sensor head with light signaling
- Sensors
- Hexagon precision scanning and vision suite
Software record.
- AI platform
- Hexagon robotics stack with NVIDIA ecosystem
- Voice
- Not a focus
- Languages
- Not applicable
- Visual recognition
- Industrial part recognition and 3D scanning
- Memory
- Task and facility models
- Processing
- Onboard with fleet coordination
- Autonomous abilities
- Logistics and inspection tasks in pilot settings
- Teleoperation
- Supported for training and exceptions
- Software updates
- Enterprise fleet updates
- Developer access
- Enterprise integration
Who can see, hear, or take control?
- Recording storage
- Enterprise-controlled
- Remote operation possible
- Yes
- Teleoperation disclosure
- Workplace protocols
- Camera / microphone controls
- Site controlled
- Data deletion
- Contract governed
- Account required
- Enterprise
- Emergency stop
- Industrial e-stop
- Children and pets
- Not applicable (industrial)
- Security updates
- Enterprise support
Lifecycle record
Status history.
- Public demonstration
AEON unveiled
- Pilot deployment
First BMW Leipzig test deployment
- Pilot deployment
BMW announces full summer 2026 pilot; Schaeffler fleet plans follow
Source register
2 linked sources.
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