Hexagon has introduced a humanoid robot, AEON. Launched by Hexagon's previously announced Robotics division, AEON has been specifically designed to meet real-world customer needs and address labor shortages.
AEON combines Hexagon's sensor suite with advanced locomotion, AI-driven mission control, and spatial intelligence to deliver improved agility, versatility, and awareness. This combination enables AEON to address a wide range of industrial applications-from manipulation and asset inspection to reality capture and operator support. AEON will help to improve safety and drive autonomy across sectors such as automotive, aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics, the company reported.
"Hexagon's legacy in precision measurement and sensor technologies has always been about enabling next-generation autonomy. For the past 10 years, we have been working on robotics innovation across our divisions," said Ola Rollén, Chairman of the Board, Hexagon. "AEON represents a state-of-the-art, industrially bespoke humanoid. It is a leap forward in our goal to help customers drive sustainable growth in the face of structural demographic changes."
AEON's capabilities include:
- Agility: Combining dexterity and locomotion, AEON can move around quickly while also performing tasks that require high accuracy due to Hexagon's proprietary precision measurement technologies.
- Awareness: Bringing together spatial intelligence and reasoning, AEON merges data from multimodal sensors to understand the environment and optimize the task at hand.
- Versatility: AEON is built to perform a wide variety of tasks-from picking specific objects and scanning industrial components for inspection to creating digital twins through digital reality capture and teleoperation-all leveraging an end-to-end training approach.
- Power autonomy: With a unique battery swapping mechanism, AEON does not need to recharge to continue to operate.
Arnaud Robert, President, Hexagon's Robotics division, said, "With AEON, we are advancing physical AI to tackle real operational challenges-bridging cutting-edge technology with practical industry needs."
Hexagon's Robotics division is partnering with Schaeffler and Pilatus to pilot AEON across manipulation, machine tending, part inspection, and reality capture use cases.
"Consistent with our long history of innovation and always in pursuit of excellence, we are pleased to collaborate with Hexagon's Robotics division to explore humanoid solutions in our factories," said Roman Emmenegger, VP Manufacturing, Pilatus. "Facing today's challenges of manufacturing in Switzerland, we believe that AEON will become a contributing solution in sustaining our competitiveness in global markets. Its unique locomotion, sensors, and on-board intelligence provides for agility and versatility and opens a multitude of opportunities to drive automation and digitization in our daily operations."
"By leveraging disruptive technologies such as humanoid robots, Schaeffler paves the way to becoming the leading motion technology company. We are excited to pilot Hexagon Robotics' humanoid solutions across a range of use cases in our factories and to share our decades of knowledge in the fields of manufacturing and vertical integration," added Sebastian Jonas, Senior Vice President Advanced Production Technology at Schaeffler.
Hexagon's Robotics division has established strong partnerships with technology leaders NVIDIA, Microsoft, and maxon to bring AEON to the market. AEON is powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA Omniverse, and NVIDIA Jetson. Microsoft Azure's platform enables scalable development and on-demand training of AEON's capabilities. And maxon's next generation actuators power AEON's locomotion across multiple environments.
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