The HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal robot started walking after just two days of training.
It’s a modular humanoid robot powered by Humanoid’s proprietary VLM/VLA-based KinetIQ framework.
The robot is intended for use in industrial, domestic, and service sectors, with the goal of mitigating issues such as labor shortages and the demands of physically challenging or unpaid domestic care tasks.
Alpha’s capabilities encompass diverse movements (walking, running, squatting, hopping, sidestepping), object manipulation, and inter-robot coordination. It also possesses the ability to self-rebalance after external force is applied. The modular design of the robot is intended to facilitate easy future upgrades, such as swapping out an arm or modifying its exterior components.
The robot moved from initial design to a functioning prototype in just five months, significantly outpacing the industry average of 18 to 24 months. This rapid development was achieved by using Nvidia’s Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, which enabled the team to condense approximately 19 months of conventional locomotion training into only two days of virtual reinforcement learning.
