Best first task
Score up to five candidate tasks and select one for deep validation.
Primary offer / Validation
Turn one factory task into a defensible pilot decision.
The Humanoid Factory Feasibility Sprint determines whether a humanoid can perform a specific industrial application safely and economically—and what is required to launch a production pilot.
The outcome
A go/no-go decision your team can act on.
The sprint does not produce a generic report about humanoids. It resolves the technical and commercial unknowns around one real application.
Right robot architecture
Compare up to three relevant platforms and alternative automation architectures against the selected task.
Realistic operating target
Define performance, intervention, autonomy, integration and safety assumptions.
Implementation-ready pilot
Leave with scope, economics, acceptance criteria, risks, responsibilities, timeline and budget range.
What is included
Use-case score
Platform comparison
Technical validation
AI and data strategy
Integration architecture
Risk pre-assessment
Pilot business case
Executive roadmap
Eight decision-grade deliverables.
Economic value, task fit, readiness, safety, data, integration and scaling potential.
Task-specific comparison of up to three candidates, with a recommended option and fallback.
Process, reach, motion and cycle analysis plus a bounded simulation or test package where useful.
Teleoperation, demonstrations, model approach, evaluation, intervention and recovery design.
Robot SDK, ROS 2, tooling, PLC, production systems, networks and support boundaries.
Preliminary safety, cybersecurity, operating constraints and conformity pathway—not certification.
Conservative, expected and upside scenarios, including operating and strategic learning value.
Success metrics, scope, responsibilities, timeline, investment range and implementation proposal.
Working sequence
Week 01
Weeks 02–03
Weeks 04–05
Four controlled phases in six weeks.
Discover and score
Facility context, candidate tasks, constraints, economics and stakeholder objectives.
Select and validate
Architecture comparison, platform shortlist, process analysis and bounded technical testing.
Design the pilot
AI, integration, safety, security, operating model and business-case scenarios.
Week 06: Executive decision review, implementation roadmap and production-pilot proposal.
Scope protection
Enough evidence to decide. Not an underpriced pilot.
Included
- One facility and one planned site visit
- Up to five candidate tasks assessed
- One task validated in depth
- Up to three platforms compared
- One preliminary simulation or test package
- Executive decision presentation
Quoted separately
- Robot hardware and vendor rental
- Final safety certification
- Production-ready tooling and software
- Large-scale data collection or model training
- PLC, MES or WMS implementation
- On-site pilot deployment
Fit and frequently asked questions
For teams with a real process and access to it.
Do we need to have selected a robot?
No. Independent architecture and platform selection is part of the sprint.
What if a humanoid is not the right solution?
The recommendation may be a mobile manipulator, cobot, conventional robot—or not automating the task yet. That is a successful finding.
Is hardware included?
No. Hardware access, third-party testing, unusual travel and rental costs are approved and billed separately.
Do you provide final compliance certification?
No. The sprint provides a preliminary safety, security and conformity pathway. Formal assessment and certification require a separately scoped implementation.
Who owns the deliverables?
The customer receives the project-specific decision material produced in the engagement. Pre-existing tools, reusable frameworks and software remain SchmidtFactories intellectual property.
Bring one factory task. Leave with a decision.
Starting investment: €25,000 net, excluding VAT, approved travel and third-party testing.