Humanoid, a London company that builds industrial humanoid robots, raised a $152m Series A at a $1.35bn post-money valuation. Prime Movers Lab led the round, according to the company's announcement and Tech.eu's report of 21 July 2026.
Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures also took part. Total funding to date is $270m. The company describes the round as the largest Series A ever raised by a humanoid-first robotics company in Europe.
“In just two years, we've gone from an idea to becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn”Artem Sokolov, Founder and CEO, Humanoid
What Humanoid builds
The company makes wheel-based industrial humanoid robots for logistics, manufacturing and other sectors. They run on KinetIQ, its proprietary AI framework, which the company describes as a four-layer system for real-world deployment. Tech.eu noted a vertically integrated approach that combines in-house hardware with its own AI software.
Humanoid was founded in 2024 by Artem Sokolov, who is chief executive. It has more than 250 engineers, researchers and other staff, with offices in London, Boston, Vancouver and San Diego.
Partners and customers
The company lists SAP, NVIDIA, Bosch and Siemens as Fortune 500 partners. It signed what it calls the industry's largest publicly announced commercial agreement, with Schaeffler, to deploy thousands of humanoid robots in manufacturing. These are the company's own descriptions.
Bosch, through Robert Bosch Robotics, is Humanoid's contract manufacturing partner and also advises on hardware design, production and supply chain. Mathias Pillin, chief technology officer of Robert Bosch, said Bosch will act as Humanoid's contract manufacturing partner. Klaus Rosenfeld, chief executive of Schaeffler, said humanoid robotics is rapidly moving from a visionary concept to an industrial reality.
What the money is for
Humanoid plans to develop and launch a next-generation platform, roll out Beta robots at customer sites in the fourth quarter of 2026 across logistics, manufacturing and retail, and begin mass manufacturing of its wheel-based robots. It will also keep developing KinetIQ and its other software towards a general-purpose industrial robot.
Zia Huque, general partner at Prime Movers Lab, said humanoid robotics will be one of the defining technologies of the next decade. Sokolov called the company Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn, two years after it was founded.
A crowded race
Humanoid robots are drawing large rounds from industrial and financial backers. Humanoid's valuation of $1.35bn after two years shows how fast investors are moving, though the company has not published revenue or the number of robots it has delivered, and the Beta deployments planned for late 2026 are its next milestone.
Investor statements
Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital said in a statement that Humanoid has demonstrated exceptional execution in a remarkably short period of time. Tech.eu quoted the same statement.
Huque said, according to the company's release, that humanoid robotics will be one of the defining technologies of the next decade. Tech.eu quoted him separately as saying Humanoid will be one of a small cadre of robotics companies that define humanoid robotics in Europe and beyond. Business Wire China's copy of the release carries a 24 July date, while Tech.eu reported the round on 21 July.
Company website: thehumanoid.ai