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Mass production of humanoid components launches before end-2026, its component set spanning bearings, roller screws, reducers, motors, sensors, and actuators. Robotics is <1% of 2025 sales, yet the Schaeffler Effect has re-rated its stock as a humanoid proxy, with the CEO targeting an order book in the hundreds of millions of euros by 2030.","sub_category":"Actuation","signals_total":161,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/schaeffler","title":"Schaeffler · humanoids, Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Schaeffler supplies actuator systems and motion-technology components for humanoid robots, including formed strain-wave gearboxes intended for humanoid joints. Humanoids 100 rank 10 (score 85) 161 signals and 125 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}