Hexagon Robotics and Schaeffler announced the next milestone in their strategic collaboration as AEON enters Schaeffler’s Humanoid Gym in Germany, marking the next step towards the planned deployment of at least 1,000 AEON humanoids in the coming years.
The Humanoid Gym provides a Train–Validate–Deploy model in a dedicated industrial environment. Schaeffler and Hexagon Robotics can teach AEON new industrial capabilities while building the expertise within Schaeffler required to operate, train, and integrate humanoids into production. This prepares both the robots and the manufacturing ecosystem for deployment while expanding the breadth of use cases on the factory floor.
AEON will learn new industrial tasks through imitation learning and repeated execution, refining and validating robot policies using representative manufacturing applications from Schaeffler’s factories. This minimises operational disruption while ensuring new capabilities will perform reliably once deployed in production.
This initiative builds on the strategic partnership announced by Schaeffler and Hexagon Robotics in April 2026 to accelerate the adoption of industrial humanoid robots. In addition to supporting the industrial deployment of AEON across Schaeffler’s manufacturing operations, Schaeffler will supply advanced actuator technology to AEON.
Training at the Humanoid Gym will accelerate AEON deployment across multiple use cases in manufacturing workflows within Schaeffler over the next six months, supporting humanoid deployment across Schaeffler’s global operations.
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