Hexagon launches AI-powered humanoid robot

Hexagon said AEON combines the company’s sensor suite with advanced locomotion, AI-driven mission control, and spatial intelligence to deliver a robot that possesses agility, versatility, and awareness.

Sectors that could benefit from AEON include automotive, aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics.

“For the past 10 years, we’ve been working on robotics innovation across our divisions,” said Ola Rollén, chairman of the board, Hexagon. “Hexagon is one of the best-placed companies in the world to lead and shape the field of humanoid robotics. AEON represents a state-of-the-art, industrially bespoke humanoid. It’s a leap forward in our goal to help customers drive sustainable growth in the face of structural demographic changes. I’m proud to see AEON come to life.”  

AEON’s Capabilities 

Combining dexterity and locomotion, AEON can move around quickly while also performing tasks that require high accuracy thanks to Hexagon’s proprietary precision measurement technologies. 

Bringing together spatial intelligence and reasoning, AEON also merges data from multimodal sensors to understand the environment and optimise the mission given the task at hand.