RobCo, the Munich startup fresh off a $100M round, walked into Hannover Messe 2026 with Alfie — a full-sized bimanual humanoid it’s calling Level 4 autonomous. Translation: the robot is supposed to learn new parts and new workflows on its own, without an engineer re-coding every SKU change. The show was the first edition to put humanoids on the main stage, and Alfie was one of the faces.
The hardware
Alfie is a two-armed industrial humanoid built for factory floors where the product mix shifts shift to shift. Precision assembly, sensitive material handling, picking, kitting, palletizing — one body, one perception stack, one execution stack. RobCo is pitching it as the replacement for ordering a fresh robot cell every time a line gets reconfigured. Not a lab demo. First customer deployments ship in H2 2026.
How an agent talks to it
Alfie runs on RobFlow, RobCo’s platform layer. RobFlow exposes REST APIs and websockets, so an MES or an AI agent can push a task, pull production state, or kick off a Behavior Tree run from outside the floor. The drag-and-drop flow editor is for humans; the HTTP surface is for code dispatching pick-and-place jobs programmatically. Delivery is RaaS-only — no capex, you rent the robot by the month.
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