Humanoid

Humanoid was founded in 2024 by Artem Sokolov and builds the HMND 01 Alpha family of humanoid robots in wheeled and bipedal versions, together with an in-house AI system it calls KinetIQ. The company says it employs more than 250 engineers, researchers and other staff across London, Boston, Vancouver and San Diego. Its commercial partners include Schaeffler, Bosch, Siemens, SAP and NVIDIA, and it sells robots under a Robot-as-a-Service model.

Latest funding

$152M Series A

Total funding

$152M

Last disclosed valuation

$1.35B

Founded

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Country

🇬🇧United Kingdom

• Jul 21, 2026Series A$152M
  Led by Prime Movers LabSchaefflerBoschFubon Financial Holding Venture CapitalAglaé Ventures

• ATHLETE: Learning Reactive Humanoid Tennis via Trajectory-Guided Motion Matching
  Oct 9, 2026
• PartiGen: Part-Aware Representations for Language-Conditioned Humanoid Motion Generation
  Oct 9, 2026
• PATACON: GPU-Parallel Tangent-Bundle RRT-Connect for Constrained Motion Planning
  Oct 9, 2026
• Belief-Overlap Partial Inversion: Object-Centric Flow Replanning for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
  Oct 9, 2026
• VICAR: Video Imitation with Contact-Aware Retargeting for Humanoid Interactive Skills
  Oct 9, 2026

• Oct 10, 2026BusinessWhy humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test
• Oct 10, 2026BusinessAtlas hand lead says 13 identical sealed actuators and in-house design are about speed, not dexterity records
• Oct 9, 2026BusinessJabil says humanoid makers are moving from hand-built units to runs of tens of thousands
• Oct 8, 2026BusinessMecka raises $60M Series B led by Sequoia for human-demonstration robot data
• Oct 7, 2026ResearchHiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction