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HumanoidPilot

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General-purpose humanoid with 16-DoF hands, six RGB cameras and an onboard vision-language model. It was tested for several weeks at BMW’s Spartanburg plant; no permanent deployment has been announced.

Year
2024
Origin
United States
Autonomy
L3 · Conditional autonomy
Dataset review
2026-11 · Methodology & evidence levels

Spec sheet

Manufacturer maxima under declared conditions; not simultaneous. The test condition is shown under each value.

Weight
70 kg
some sources state 60 kg
Payload
20 kg
Editorial estimatesources give 20 or 25 kg; no official sheet
Operating time
5 h
~5 h per press reports; 2.25 kWh battery
Top speed
1.2 m/s
Editorial estimate
Height
1.68 m

Primary source quality: Press / aggregator

Backed by:[Robotics 24/7, 2024][Qviro][Control.com, 2024]

Taxonomy profile

Where the platform sits on the four axes of the reference framework.

Autonomy

Conditional autonomy
  1. L0
  2. L1
  3. L2
  4. L3
  5. L4
  6. L5

Makes local decisions on unexpected events; needs occasional remote supervision.

Coordination

Coordinated
  1. Standalone
  2. Coordinated
  3. Collaborative swarm

Shares state and telemetry through a base station or central server.

Control

primary: Learned policy (RL/VLA)
  1. FPV
  2. Teleop
  3. Supervised
  4. BVLOS
  5. RL/VLA

supported: Teleoperation · Learned policy (RL/VLA)

Perception

3 sensing modalities
  • RGB cameras
  • IMU
  • Tactile / haptic sensors

Operating environments

  • Industrial plant
  • Warehouse / logistics

Sectors

  • Advanced manipulation
  • Logistics & last mile

Ideal business case

Production-line manipulation (pilot)

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