Hexagon starts training AEON humanoid robots at Schaeffler factories

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.

What Happened

This minimises operational disruption while ensuring new capabilities will perform reliably once deployed in production. In addition to supporting the industrial deployment of AEON across Schaeffler’s manufacturing operations, Schaeffler will supply advanced actuator technology to AEON.

• Hexagon Robotics and Schaeffler, a motion technology company, has 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.

• This initiative builds on the strategic partnership announced by Schaeffler and Hexagon Robotics in April 2026 to accelerate the adoption of industrial humanoid robots.

• 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.

Key Details

Schaeffler’s unique role as both a user of humanoids and a key component supplier allows us to help shape the performance of humanoid robots through our advanced motion technologies.

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