Humanoid, a London-based robotics company founded in May 2024, raised a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation on July 21 — the largest Series A ever for a European humanoid robotics firm, and the continent's first pure-play humanoid unicorn.
Who funded it
Prime Movers Lab led, with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures, the Arnault family vehicle. Total raised now stands at $270 million; founder and chief executive Artem Sokolov put $30 million of his own capital in at launch. The company has offices in Boston, Vancouver and San Diego alongside its London headquarters.
Investors who are also customers
The industrial names are doing more than writing cheques. Bosch, via Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH, becomes the contract manufacturing partner, with reported capacity for up to 100,000 units over five years. Schaeffler signed a binding commercial rollout agreement for 1,000 to 2,000 wheeled units by 2032. That dual role is worth naming: these are not arm's-length orders.
The robots and the stack
Humanoid builds the HMND-01 Alpha Wheeled, its shipping platform, and a bipedal version in development. Both run KinetIQ, a four-layer AI stack: an agentic fleet coordinator, a vision-language model, a proprietary execution model and a whole-body controller, reported to work at about 80% of human speed on certain tasks. A wheeled prototype ran an eight-hour autonomous shift at a Siemens factory in Erlangen, moving 60 totes per hour at over 90% pick-and-place success.
What happens next
Beta systems go to customers in Q4 2026 as three-to-six-month pilots across logistics, manufacturing and retail — trials, not a commercial rollout. "In just two years, we've gone from an idea to becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn," Sokolov said.