Humanoid raises $152M at $1.35 billion post-money valuation

UK-based AI and robotics company Humanoid 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 company said that the funding round was led by Prime Movers Lab, a venture capital firm focused on investments in breakthrough scientific startups working to revolutionize the world's most important industries and transform billions of lives, with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures. 

Further funding for humanoid robot development and deployment

Humanoid said that now is a defining moment for the European technology ecosystem, which positions the region among the global leaders in one of the world's fastest-growing tech sectors. The company said that until now, much of the physical AI momentum has been concentrated in the United States and China. Humanoid said the investment demonstrates that the U.K. and continental Europe can produce and scale globally competitive humanoid robotics companies at the cutting-edge of the field.

“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,” said Artem Sokolov, founder and CEO of Humanoid. “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 every single day what people believe is possible. This funding gives us the resources to move even faster and to turn humanoid robots from breakthrough technology into everyday industrial tools.”

Humanoid said that the new capital will fund the company’s next phase of growth, strengthen its technology leadership and accelerate its commercial deployments and business expansion. The company said that it 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 the company’s way toward a general-purpose robot for industrial applications.

"Humanoid robotics will be one of the defining technologies of the next decade, reshaping how commercial and industrial work gets done,” said Zia Huque, general partner at Prime Movers Lab. “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."

Humanoid said that it has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry and secured major partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, including:

• SAP
• NVIDIA
• Bosch
• Siemens

Most notably, Humanoid added that it signed the industry's largest publicly announced commercial agreement with Schaeffler for the large-scale deployment of thousands of humanoid robots in manufacturing environments.

“Humanoid robotics is rapidly moving from a visionary concept to an industrial reality, and Schaeffler, as a leading motion technology company, is uniquely positioned to help shape this evolution,” said Klaus Rosenfeld, CEO of Schaeffler AG. “By combining our decades of industrial expertise and manufacturing excellence with Humanoid’s breakthrough physical AI platform, we are actively backing one of the most exciting frontiers in technology. We are proud to support Humanoid as both a strategic investor and a commercial partner as they scale a technology that holds the power to fundamentally redefine productivity across global industries.”