A wheeled humanoid robot clocked in for full shifts at Siemens’s electronics plant in Erlangen, Germany. No fences. No scripted demos. Just live production alongside human workers. The HMND 01 Alpha from UK startup Humanoid handled tote destacking—picking stacks, rolling them to conveyors, placing them precisely for operators. It hit 60 moves an hour. Uptime topped eight hours. Pick-and-place accuracy stayed above 90%. Siemens called its Erlangen site ‘customer zero.’ They tested the setup in their own chaotic floor before pitching it elsewhere. The trial wrapped two weeks in January 2026, ahead of Hannover Messe reveals this month. The Next Web detailed how the robot’s upper body mimics human arms, while wheels zip through factory aisles faster than legs might in tight spots. And the brains? Nvidia’s stack. Jetson Thor crunches edge compute on board. Isaac Sim trains in virtual factories.…