SKL Robotics Ltd., operating as Humanoid, is a UK-based AI and robotics company founded in 2024 by Artem Sokolov. Headquartered in London, it specializes in developing commercially scalable, safe humanoid robots designed for industrial and human-centric environments.
The company's flagship product, the HMND 01 Alpha, is a dual-armed mobile manipulator available in wheeled (for industrial logistics) and bipedal variants. Key specifications include a height of 220 cm, speeds up to 7.2 km/h, 15 kg payload capacity, and 29 degrees of freedom. It leverages NVIDIA's physical AI stack—Jetson Thor for edge computing, Isaac Sim for simulation, and Isaac Lab for reinforcement learning—alongside Humanoid's proprietary KinetIQ framework.
Humanoid accelerated development of the HMND 01 Alpha to seven months using a simulation-first approach. The wheeled model has been trialed successfully at Siemens' Erlangen electronics factory, achieving 60 tote moves per hour, over eight hours of uptime, and >90% pick-and-place success rates. Additional proofs-of-concept include deployments with Schaeffler for bin-picking tasks.
