Humanoid raises $152 million at $1.35 billion valuation, becoming ‘Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn’ - Robotics & Automation News
July 22, 2026 by David Edwards Humanoid, a UK-based AI and robotics company building industrial humanoid robots, today announced a $152 million Series A financing at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation.
Key takeaways
- The most recent wave of humanoid‑robot news centers on rapid commercial scaling and breakthrough technology.
- In late July 2026 the UK‑based company Humanoid announced a $152 million Series A round that pushed its post‑money valuation to $1.35 billion, making it Europe’s first pure‑play humanoid‑robotics unicorn; the funding will fuel a next‑generation wheel‑based platform, a beta rollout to logistics and manufacturing customers in Q4 2026, and the start of mass manufacturing, while its proprietary AI brain KinetIQ moves toward a general‑purpose industrial robot.
- Across the Atlantic, Agility Robotics opened a 60,000‑square‑foot “robot school” in Fremont, California, to expand its Digit biped’s capabilities and deliberately avoid the industry’s talent‑bidding wars, reinforcing its focus on sustained, real‑world work in manufacturing and distribution.
- Meanwhile, Generative Bionics unveiled the Gene.01 humanoid at AMD’s Advancing AI conference, a six‑month development that combines full‑body tactile sensing with physics‑native AI for more nuanced physical interaction, supported by a recent €70 million funding round for production scaling.
- At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, AGIBOT introduced the A3 Ultra, a 1.74 m, 60 kg full‑size humanoid equipped with 51 active degrees of freedom, 5 kg payload per arm, eight‑hour battery life, and a multimodal perception suite that includes lidar, RGB‑D and UWB positioning, positioning it for long‑duration service environments.
July 22, 2026 by David Edwards
Humanoid, a UK-based AI and robotics company building industrial humanoid robots, today 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 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. 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 its way toward a general-purpose robot for industrial applications.
Humanoid has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry and 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.
Artem Sokolov, founder and CEO of Humanoid, says: “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.
“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.
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