Hexagon, a global leader in measurement technology, launched a humanoid robot called AEON, at its recent flagship
Hexagon LIVE Global event. AEON, launched by Hexagon’s previously announced Robotics division, has been specifically designed to meet real-world customer needs and address labour shortages. It combines Hexagon’s world-class sensor suite with advanced locomotion, AI-driven mission control, and spatial intelligence to deliver exceptional agility, versatility, and awareness.
This powerful combination enables AEON to address a wide range of industrial applications — from manipulation and asset inspection to reality capture and operator support. The humanoid will help to improve safety and drive autonomy across sectors such as automotive, aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics.
Ola Rollén, Hexagon’s chairman of the board, said: “Hexagon’’s legacy in precision measurement and sensor technologies has always been about enabling next-generation autonomy. For the past 10 years, we have been working on robotics innovation across our divisions. 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 is a leap forward in our goal to help customers drive sustainable growth in the face of structural demographic changes — I am proud to see AEON come to life.”
Arnaud Robert, president of Hexagon’s Robotics division, said,: “With AEON, we are advancing physical artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle real operational challenges — bridging cutting-edge technology with practical industry needs. We have engaged with many industry leaders already, and over the next six months we will be deploying AEON in production environments before expanding our commercial rollout.”
Hexagon’s Robotics division is partnering with
Schaeffler and Pilatus to pilot AEON across manipulation, machine tending, part inspection, and reality capture use cases.
Agility and versatility
Roman Emmenegger, Pilatus vice president of manufacturing, said: “Consistent with our long history of innovation and always in pursuit of excellence, we are pleased to collaborate with Hexagon’s Robotics division to explore humanoid solutions in our factories. Facing today’s challenges of manufacturing in Switzerland, we believe that AEON will become a contributing solution in sustaining our competitiveness in ever tougher global markets. Its unique locomotion, sensors, and on-board intelligence provides for agility and versatility and opens a multitude of opportunities to drive automation and digitalisation in our daily operations.”
Sebastian Jonas, senior vice president of advanced production technology at Schaeffler, added: “By leveraging disruptive technologies such as humanoid robots, Schaeffler paves the way to becoming the leading motion technology company. We are excited to pilot Hexagon Robotics’ humanoid solutions across a range of use cases in our factories and to share our decades of knowledge in the fields of manufacturing and vertical integration.”
Hexagon’s Robotics division has established strong partnerships with technology leaders NVIDIA, Microsoft, and maxon to bring AEON to the market. The robot is powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA Omniverse, and NVIDIA Jetson. Microsoft Azure’s platform enables scalable development and on-demand training of AEON's capabilities — and Maxon's next generation actuators power AEON's unique and efficient locomotion across multiple environments.