Life at HIVE

A highly skilled team, a lot of hardware, and very short feedback loops.

We are based in Lyngby 15 min. north of Copenhagen. Below is a bit more on how we work.

Part of the HIVE Robots team in the Lyngby lab with the humanoid robots Charlie and Danni — In the lab in Lyngby with Charlie and Danni.

How we work

Hardware in the loop

Every engineer spends time with a real robot. Simulation is a tool, not the destination — decisions are validated on the floor.

Whole problems, owned end to end

Teams or individuals own a problem end to end: perception, control, deployment and the customer conversation that follows. Because we work at the state of the art, open and frequent sparring and feedback is necessary — we run a modified SCRUM methodology to support that.

Short feedback cycles

We release to the real robots many times daily. Going from sim to real is a critical part of staying competitive and keeping up.

Written thinking

Decisions are argued in short documents before they are built. It keeps the reasoning available long after the meeting ends. We use AI intensively as an integrated part of our knowledge management and production.

A HIVE robot hand gripping a product on a supermarket shelf

Meet the people behind HIVE

Careers here move fast because the humanoid industry is developing very fast

Eymen and HIVE CEO Charlotte Sand holding the DIRA Teknologiprisen 2026 diploma and trophy in front of HIVE Robots banners — Eymen and HIVE CEO Charlotte Sand with the DIRA Teknologiprisen 2026.

From intern to national award winner in one year

Eymen — teleoperation engineer and robot owner

Eymen met HIVE last year at the robot event Robotbraget. It turned into an internship. She wrote her master's thesis at Aalborg University, under professor Simon Bøgh, on Heimdall, HIVE Robots' own supervisory teleoperation and autonomous control framework — the foundation our robots run on.

Today she is a core part of our teleoperation team — one of the people actually steering our robots through real, live tasks. She also owns the robots technically: she knows every joint and cable, and she is our direct contact with the factory in China when something needs to be built, fixed or shipped.

A year after that first meeting at Robotbraget, Eymen stood alongside HIVE CEO Charlotte Sand to accept the DIRA Teknologiprisen 2026 — Denmark's national robotics award — on behalf of HIVE.

From student to national award winner in under a year — the shortest path we know.

See our student and internship openings

State of the art, and connected to academia

We work at the frontier of Physical AI — humanoid manipulation, Vision-Language-Action models and sim-to-real. We stay close to the research community: our team members read, reproduce and publish, and are expected to contribute back.

RESEARCH WE SHARE

Closing the Lab-to-Store Gap: A Data-Efficient Post-Training and Experience-Driven Learning VLA Framework for Retail Humanoids

By Roger, Tiago and Tran

The work tackles one of the biggest challenges in humanoid robotics: closing the gap between impressive lab demos and reliable real-world deployment. It presents a framework that helps VLA models learn more efficiently from real-world experience, so retail humanoids become more capable and dependable in production.

Read the paper on arXiv

If you want to be part of a SOTA team — see our open jobs.

Where we are

Maglebjergvej 6, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby — about 15 minutes north of Copenhagen.

Working hours and presence

37 hours per week

A standard Danish full-time week, excluding lunch.

On site, every day

We do not have a work from home policy. The work happens in the lab.

09:30 – 15:30 core hours

Physical presence is mandatory in this window every day.

We prioritize that our team is with the robots and around each other at the same time.

Our hiring process

1
Application
You apply here. A human reads it — usually within a week.
2
Intro call
30 minutes with the hiring manager about your background and the role.
3
Deep interview and dialog
1-2 hours meeting often combined with small test.
4
Meet the robots
Meet the team of robots and the humans :-)
5
Offer
We use standard full time employee contract based on danish law.

See open roles