1000 robots, 1 factory: Hexagon preps for robot fleets at Schaeffler

Schaeffler plans to put at least 1,000 of Hexagon's Aeon humanoids to work across its global factory network by 2032. In an industry where most deployments are still counted in single digits, that's a very big number.

How is that going to work?

How does that change things from pilots with 1 or 10 or 50 robots?

How does that change the jobs robots do?

What does that change about the jobs humans do?

In this long-form episode of Humanoid (almost) Daily, we do a deep dive with Hexagon Robotics president Arnaud Robert.

Enjoy!

00:00 What does it take to deploy 1,000 humanoids?

01:31 Why 1,000 robots changes the problem

03:02 Why humanoids need to do multiple jobs

03:55 The race for physical AI training data

04:51 Simulation, synthetic and real-world data

06:20 Hexagon's sim-to-real-to-sim loop

08:10 What robot-generated training data captures

10:21 Pilot vs. production-ready humanoids

12:14 The industrial experience advantage

13:12 The two metrics that really matter

15:39 What Hexagon learned from failure

17:35 The humanoid actuator problem

18:47 Why Aeon uses wheels instead of legs

19:59 Yes, a wheeled humanoid can climb stairs

21:28 What the factory of the future looks like

23:42 Using humanoids to eliminate bottlenecks

25:17 Automation exposes the hidden 3%

26:07 Schaeffler's path to 1,000 humanoids

27:18 Train, deploy, scale

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