Humanoid News
Latest Humanoid news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $152M raised. 20 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Humanoid
Humanoid (legally SKL Robotics Ltd) is a London-based company that designs and manufactures industrial humanoid robots. It was founded in 2024 by Artem Sokolov and builds the HMND 01 platform, offered in wheeled and bipedal variants, aimed at pick-and-place and material-handling tasks in logistics, manufacturing and retail.
The company's robots run on KinetIQ, a proprietary AI software stack for perception, manipulation and fleet orchestration, built on NVIDIA compute. In 2026 Humanoid signed a manufacturing partnership with Robert Bosch to produce its wheeled robots at scale and agreed a deal with Schaeffler to supply robots for factory deployment; it also ran a pilot with Siemens using NVIDIA technology on a factory floor in Germany.
In July 2026 Humanoid raised a $152 million Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, with participation from Bosch, Schaeffler, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures, making it one of Europe's first humanoid-robotics unicorns. The company has reported total funding of roughly $270 million to date, though earlier rounds are not fully disclosed in public sources.
Key facts
Products by Humanoid
- HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled (Robot, 2026) — Wheeled-base bimanual humanoid robot for industrial pick-and-place and material handling tasks.
- HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal (Robot, 2026) — Bipedal variant of the HMND 01 humanoid robot platform for logistics, manufacturing and retail environments.
- KinetIQ (Software, 2026) — Proprietary AI software stack handling perception, manipulation and fleet scheduling for Humanoid's robots.
Funding rounds
- Series A — $152M — 2026 — led by Prime Movers Lab
Latest Humanoid news
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- AL.Robot's $35M Kosdaq IPO Shows Where the Humanoid Boom's Real Money Sits — South Korean sensor maker AL.Robot drew 871-to-1 institutional demand for its Kosdaq listing, a sign investors see component suppliers to collaborativ...
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