Backed by Prime Movers Lab, Bosch, and Schaeffler, the two-year-old startup is wagering that wheeled, industrial humanoid robots — not general-purpose ones — will win the factory floor first.
Humanoid, a UK-based AI and robotics company building industrial humanoid robots, today announced a $152 million Series A financing at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation. This funding brings the total amount raised to date to $270 million.
The round was led by Prime Movers Lab, with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital, and Aglaé Ventures. The valuation reflects both Humanoid’s execution speed and growing market confidence that humanoid robots are becoming commercially viable.
With its wheeled robots, Humanoid aims to address global labor shortages across manufacturing, logistics, and other critical sectors, solving real operational problems for its customers.
The company’s vertically integrated approach combines proprietary robotics hardware with its own AI brain, KinetIQ, which enables robots to understand, reason, and execute complex physical tasks in real industrial environments.
Humanoid has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry and secured major partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, including SAP, NVIDIA, Bosch, and Siemens.
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The company recently signed the industry’s largest publicly announced commercial agreement with Schaeffler for the large-scale deployment of thousands of humanoid robots in manufacturing environments.
According to Artem Sokolov, Founder and CEO of Humanoid, “In just two years, we’ve gone from an idea to becoming Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn, partnered with some of the world’s leading industrial companies, and built one of the strongest pipelines in the industry.
What we’ve accomplished in such a short time would typically take a decade. None of this would have been possible without an extraordinary team that challenges what people believe is possible every single day. This funding gives us the resources to move even faster and to turn humanoid robots from breakthrough technology into everyday industrial tools.”
”Humanoid robotics will be one of the defining technologies of the next decade, reshaping how commercial and industrial work gets done. We expect the field to consolidate around a handful of category leaders across the US, Europe, and China. Humanoid AI will be one of a small cadre of robotics companies that will define humanoid robotics in Europe and beyond,” said Zia Huque, General Partner at Prime Movers Lab.
“Humanoid has demonstrated exceptional execution in a remarkably short period of time, transforming breakthrough AI and robotics technology into real industrial deployments. We are excited to support the company’s next stage of growth as a long-term strategic partner and look forward to contributing to its global expansion,” Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital said.
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The new capital will fund Humanoid’s next phase of growth, strengthening its technology leadership and accelerating its commercial deployments and business expansion.
The company will focus on:
- Development and launch of its next-generation humanoid robotics platform;
- Long-term commercial deployments at customer facilities across logistics, manufacturing, retail, and other sectors, beginning with the roll-out of Beta version robots in Q4 2026;
- Start of mass manufacturing of wheel-based humanoid robots; AI and software development, including Humanoid’s proprietary AI brain KinetIQ, on our way toward a general-purpose robot for industrial applications.
