UK robotics firm Humanoid has become a unicorn despite being founded just two years ago.
The London company raised $152 million (£114m) investment at a $1.35 billion valuation to become Europe’s first humanoid robotics unicorn.
It is the largest ever Series A investment into a humanoid-first robotics company in Europe.
The round brings the total amount raised to date to $270m and was led by Prime Movers Lab, with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures.
The new capital will accelerate Humanoid’s next-generation robot development, commercial deployments with global industrial leaders, and evolution of the proprietary AI platform on the path toward general-purpose humanoids.
Until now, much of the physical AI momentum has been concentrated in the United States and China. Humanoid says the funding will enable 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.
Humanoid has secured major partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, including SAP, NVIDIA, Bosch and Siemens. Most notably, Humanoid recently signed the industry’s largest publicly announced commercial agreement with Schaeffler for the large-scale deployment of thousands of humanoid robots in manufacturing environments.
The funding will also start the mass manufacturing of wheel-based humanoid robots and drive forward AI and software development, including Humanoid’s proprietary ‘AI brain’ KinetIQ.
“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.”
Zia Huque, general partner at Prime Movers Lab, added: “Humanoid robotics will be one of the defining technologies of the next decade, reshaping how commercial and industrial work gets done.
“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.”
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Klaus Rosenfeld, CEO of Schaeffler AG, commented: “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.
“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.”
Mathias Pillin, CTO of Robert Bosch GmbH, said: “We see significant growth opportunities in the field of humanoid robotics. Through our subsidiary Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH we have already entered into a manufacturing partnership with Humanoid.
“Bosch will act as Humanoid’s contract manufacturing partner, while also providing strategic consulting and technical expertise in hardware design, production, and supply chain.”
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