AEON combines best-in-class locomotion, sensor fusion, and AI-based spatial intelligence to address labour shortages and tackle industrial use cases.
Hexagon launches a humanoid robot, AEON, at its 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. AEON 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. AEON will help to improve safety and drive autonomy across sectors such as automotive, aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics.
AEON’s innovative capabilities include:
- Agility: 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.
- Awareness: Bringing together spatial intelligence and reasoning, AEON merges data from multimodal sensors to understand the environment and optimise the mission given the task at hand.
- Versatility: AEON is built to perform a wide variety of tasks – from picking specific objects and scanning industrial components for inspection to creating digital twins through digital reality capture and teleoperation – all leveraging an end-to-end training approach.
- Power autonomy: With a unique battery swapping mechanism, AEON does not need to recharge to continue to operate.
Hexagon’s Robotics division is partnering with Schaeffler and Pilatus to pilot AEON across manipulation, machine tending, part inspection, and reality capture use cases.
Hexagon’s Robotics division has established strong partnerships with technology leaders NVIDIA, Microsoft, and maxon to bring AEON to the market. AEON 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.
For more information, visit hexagon.com.
