Schaeffler
Frankfurt-listed German motion technology group that supplies humanoid robot joints and actuators and plans to put humanoids on its own lines.
Schaeffler AG is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany, where the Schaeffler brothers established the business in 1946, and its shares have been listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol SHA0 since 9 October 2015. In March 2025 the group set out a humanoid robot offer that draws on its bearing and e-mobility know-how, covering needle bearings for joints, ball and planetary roller screw drives, linear sensors, electric motors and power electronics. In November 2025 it agreed a partnership with Neura Robotics under which it will produce compact actuators for humanoids and aims to bring a mid-four-digit number of humanoids into its own production by 2035. On 22 April 2026 it announced a deal with Hexagon Robotics to supply strain wave and planetary rotary actuators and to deploy at least 1,000 Hexagon humanoids across its plants within seven years, and on the same day a planetary gearbox partnership with Vietnam's VinDynamics, its first with a humanoid maker in Asia Pacific.
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