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Humanoid

As of July 21, 2026, Humanoid was last valued at $1.35B (July 2026 Series A) and has raised at least $152M in equity across 1 sourced funding round.

Humanoid designs and manufactures AI-powered wheeled humanoid robots for industrial and manufacturing deployment.

RoboticsLondon, UKFounded 2024Founders: Artem SokolovWebsite ↗See connections →
Last verified Jul 21, 2026

Humanoid at a glance

As of
Latest valuation
$1.35B[1]
Series A · July 2026Derived
Equity raised
$152M[2]
Across 1 sourced roundDerived
Total funding (reported)
$270M[3]
July 2026
Lead investors
Prime Movers[4]
Series A · July 2026
  1. [1] Latest valuation: Tech.eu, July 21, 2026
  2. [2] Equity raised: Sum of the 1 sourced equity round in the funding history below (debt, tender offers and rumored rounds excluded), July 21, 2026
  3. [3] Total funding (reported): Tech.eu, July 21, 2026
  4. [4] Lead investors: Tech.eu, July 21, 2026

What Humanoid does

Humanoid is a UK-based company building humanoid robots for industrial use.[1] Artem Sokolov founded it in May 2024 with roughly $30 million of his own money, according to a Forbes interview.[2] It was incorporated as SKL Robotics Ltd. and employs more than 250 people across offices in London, Boston, Vancouver and San Diego.[3] Its first platform, HMND 01, is a wheeled robot with a humanoid torso and two arms, which the company says covers about 90% of industrial use cases without the cost of bipedal walking.[2] All of its robots run on KinetIQ, an in-house four-layer AI framework.[1] Humanoid has run pilots with Siemens, SAP and Ford and says it holds more than 34,000 pre-orders representing a $2.4 billion pipeline.[2] Its roadmap calls for several hundred units with Bosch in 2027, scaling to 150,000 in 2030.[2]

Business model and customers

Bosch is its contract manufacturer for Europe.[2] The money will fund a next-generation robot platform, customer deployments in logistics, manufacturing and retail starting with Beta robots in Q4 2026, and the start of mass manufacturing of wheeled robots.[1]

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Company Snapshot

Humanoid is a Robotics company, based in London, UK, founded 2024 by Artem Sokolov.

Recent changes

  1. Sep 11, 2026Kinetix AI Raises $75M For Humanoid Robots Pulse story
  2. Sep 6, 2026Humanoid Robots Are Funded Like Software Pulse story
  3. Aug 3, 2026Unitree's IPO Gives Humanoid Robotics a Real Price Tag Pulse story
  4. Aug 3, 2026The US Just Blacklisted Foreign Humanoid Robots Pulse story
  5. Jul 23, 2026Humanoid Raises $152M, Becomes Europe's Robot Unicorn Pulse story
Earlier changes (13)
  1. Jul 21, 2026Raised $152M Series A at a $1.35B valuation Tech.eu
  2. Jul 21, 2026First reported total funding: $270M Tech.eu
  3. Jul 21, 2026First reported valuation: $1.35B Tech.eu
  4. Jul 21, 2026New investor: Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital Tech.eu
  5. Jul 21, 2026New investor: Schaeffler Tech.eu
  6. Jul 21, 2026New investor: Prime Movers Tech.eu
  7. Jul 21, 2026New investor: Aglaé Ventures Tech.eu
  8. Jul 21, 2026New investor: Bosch Tech.eu
  9. Jul 21, 2026UK's Humanoid Raises $152M, Becomes a $1.35B Robotics Unicorn Pulse story
  10. Jul 13, 2026Chinese Humanoid Robotics Startups Rush Toward IPOs Pulse story
  11. Jul 5, 2026Humanoid Robotics Firm Agility Goes Public via $2.5B SPAC Pulse story
  12. Jun 22, 2026Germany's Neura Robotics Raises $1.4B to Scale Humanoid Production Pulse story
  13. Jun 20, 2026Apptronik Adds $520M to Scale Production of Its Apollo Humanoid Robot Pulse story

Funding history

1 equity event · newest first · sources dated per row
DateRoundAmountValuationLead investorsSource
Jul 21, 2026Series A$152M$1.35Bpost-money
Prime Moversunverified
WithSchaefflerunverifiedBoschunverifiedFubon Financial Holding Venture CapitalunverifiedAglaé Venturesunverified
Tech.eu

Equity only. “Equity raised” above sums the rounds with a dated, linked source; rumored rounds, tender offers and secondary sales are listed but not counted, and debt financing is listed separately.

How Humanoid has been funded

In July 2026 it announced a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, led by Prime Movers Lab with Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures participating.[1] The round brought its total raised to $270 million.[1]

Investors and their roles

  • Schaeffler is an investor, a supplier of more than half of Humanoid's actuators through 2031, and its largest announced customer, targeting a four-digit robot deployment across its plants by 2032.[2]

Investors

Prime MoversAglaé VenturesBoschFubon Financial Holding Venture CapitalSchaeffler

Latest Pulse

  1. Kinetix AI Raises $75M For Humanoid RobotsThe year-old embodied-AI startup, led by former Huawei autonomous-driving executives, raised an Angel+ round led by Temasek's Vertex Ventures to fund its full-size humanoid, KAI.→
  2. Humanoid Robots Are Funded Like SoftwareRobotics startups have raised roughly $23 billion in 2026, nearly matching all of last year, and humanoid funding alone has topped $8.6 billion -- multiples that only work if hardware margins behave like software margins.→
  3. Humanoid Robots Break Sprint Records, Some Catch FireAt Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot ran the 100 meters in 9.32 seconds, faster than Usain Bolt's human world record, while other competing robots tripped, crashed and in some cases caught fire during events.→
  4. Robotics' IPO Pipeline: Who's Actually ReadyFigure AI at a private $39B valuation and China's Unitree pursuing a Shanghai STAR Market listing represent two very different paths to a robotics IPO -- and neither looks genuinely ready by the disclosure standards Cerebras and SpaceX have just set.→
  5. Humanoid Robots: Follow the Manufacturing Data, Not the DemosHumanoid robot startups have raised $8.6B in 2026 alone, already 1.8x all of 2025 -- but the more useful signal is production data: Figure is shipping past 1,000 units and AgiBot has 15,000 cumulative units in the field.→
  6. The Humanoid Robot Production Race Just Got RealFigure AI has now built 1,000 Figure 03 units and deployed over 10,000 across partner warehouses including BMW Spartanburg, while Tesla's Optimus V3 begins a low-volume Fremont ramp -- physical AI is shifting from demos to a real manufacturing race.→
  7. Unitree's IPO Gives Humanoid Robotics a Real Price TagUnitree's Shanghai IPO, with secondary-market chatter running toward $14.8 billion against a $6.2 billion base, is about to give the humanoid-robotics sector its first transparent public price -- a sharp contrast to Figure's opaque $39 billion private mark.→
  8. The US Just Blacklisted Foreign Humanoid RobotsThe US added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots to the FCC's national-security Covered List just days before Unitree's Shanghai IPO, effectively closing off what would otherwise be China's largest addressable robotics market.→
  9. US Bans Foreign Humanoid Robots; China Vows RetaliationThe FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots to its national-security Covered List, cutting Chinese manufacturers from the US market just as China's commerce ministry threatened to retaliate.→
  10. Google Unveils Gemini Robotics 2 for Humanoid RobotsGoogle DeepMind unveiled Gemini Robotics 2, a new AI model that lets humanoid robots coordinate movement across their entire bodies, extending Gemini's reasoning and planning capabilities into physical dexterity tasks robots have historically struggled with.→
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Coverage Timeline

newest first
  1. Jul 23, 2026FUNDINGHumanoid Raises $152M, Becomes Europe's Robot Unicorn$152M Series A→
  2. Jul 21, 2026FUNDINGUK's Humanoid Raises $152M, Becomes a $1.35B Robotics Unicorn$152M Series A→

All Coverage

FUNDING

Humanoid Raises $152M, Becomes Europe's Robot Unicorn

Illustration for: Humanoid Raises $152M, Becomes Europe's Robot Unicorn
FUNDING$152M Series A

Humanoid Raises $152M, Becomes Europe's Robot Unicorn

London-based Humanoid raised $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn on the strength of billions in factory pre-orders.

FUNDING

UK's Humanoid Raises $152M, Becomes a $1.35B Robotics Unicorn

Illustration for: UK's Humanoid Raises $152M, Becomes a $1.35B Robotics Unicorn
FUNDING$152M Series A

UK's Humanoid Raises $152M, Becomes a $1.35B Robotics Unicorn

UK robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion valuation led by Prime Movers Lab, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn as industrial buyers chase labor-shortage automation.

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Humanoid FAQ

What is Humanoid's valuation?

In July 2026 it announced a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, led by Prime Movers Lab with Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures participating.[1]

What does Humanoid do?

Humanoid is a UK-based company building humanoid robots for industrial use.[1]

How much has Humanoid raised?

Humanoid has raised at least $152M in equity across 1 sourced funding round tracked by Value Add VC. The most recent was a $152M Series A in July 2026 at a $1.35B post-money valuation, reported by Tech.eu. Debt financing, tender offers and secondary sales are not counted. Tech.eu puts total funding at $270M (July 2026).

Who invested in Humanoid?

Lead investors in Humanoid's sourced funding rounds include Prime Movers. Per round: its July 2026 Series A was led by Prime Movers.

References

researched 2026-10-23
  1. finanznachrichten.de
  2. Yahoo Finance
  3. techtimes.com
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