AEON
AEON is Hexagon's industrial humanoid, unveiled on 17 June 2025 at HxGN LIVE in Las Vegas. It combines legs with wheels for locomotion, hot-swappable batteries and Hexagon's measurement sensors, and is aimed at inspection, scanning and material handling in factories.
Hexagon AB (Hexagon Robotics) press imageWe have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- In pilots
- Category
- industrial
- First revealed
- 17 June 2025
- Form
- wheeled-base
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- 4 h
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric, legs with wheeled feet
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Pilot programs with industrial customers (Schaeffler, Pilatus) announced at launch; not generally available.
What stands out
- Legs with wheeled feet
- Hot-swappable batteries, about 4 hours
- Pilots with Schaeffler and Pilatus
Hands, sensors, brain
- Sensors: multimodal sensing incl. Hexagon metrology sensors
- Compute: Nvidia Jetson
- AI stack: Nvidia Isaac stack, Hexagon Reality Cloud
Price and volume
no public price
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, AEON sits at #70 of 107 with 30 points: deployment 10/50, autonomy 12/30, availability 8/20. See that method.
Where AEON works.
| Customer | Site | Sector | Task | Since | Status | Units | Autonomy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilatus Aircraft and Schaeffler | Pilatus plant in Stans, Switzerland, and Schaeffler plants, Switzerland | other | Reality capture, part inspection and machine tending pilots | Jun 2025 | announced | n/d | mixed |
Europe's humanoids: who builds them and what you can order
31 of the 182 humanoids on record come from seven European countries. Three can be ordered, two have a price, and the dearest of those is $75,000 for a robot that does not walk.
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
How long does a humanoid robot actually run
22 of 182 humanoids on record quote a runtime. The claims run from 1 to 8 hours with a median of 4, and of the 44 machines you can order, 4 say anything at all.
Startups, automakers, universities: who builds humanoids
108 makers, nine kinds. Startups hold 37 of the 44 humanoids you can order. Automakers, universities, big tech, conglomerates and NASA hold 45 robots between them and sell none of them.
Humanoid robot stocks: which of the 108 makers are actually listed
Twenty of the 108 makers in our record have a ticker. Four of them will sell you a humanoid. The rest build cars, chips, servers and washing machines, and the pure plays are all private.
Sources
- 01Hexagon RoboticsHexagon
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