Humanoid Raises $152 Million At $1.35 Billion Valuation
2-year-old UK startup Humanoid has raised $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation. Here is the company's HMND 01 humanoid robot. Humanoid Europe has a new billion-dollar startup, and it’s Humanoid, a two-year-old company headquartered in London that devel...
Key takeaways
- The most recent week of humanoid‑robot news (July 13‑20, 2026) saw Hyundai move to acquire SoftBank’s remaining stake in Boston Dynamics, while China’s WAIC 2026 unveiled the AgiBot A3 Ultra full‑size humanoid, the X2 Edu education platform, the G2 Max industrial robot and the OmniHand 3 Ultra‑M hand, and Unitree displayed its 2.7‑metre transformable GD01; Unitree’s Shanghai STAR‑Market IPO remains unpriced as of July 20.
- At the same time, Hyundai’s Atlas robot completed a high‑visibility activation during the FIFA World Cup final, and Yaskawa and SoftBank demonstrated a vision‑language‑action system that enables a MOTOMAN NEXT robot to handle irregular wire‑harness packing.
- Chinese manufacturers continue to push thousands of humanoids into logistics and factories to collect training data, widening the deployment gap with the United States.
- A new robot‑fighting league launched by EngineAI is staging full‑size humanoids in a ring, and the industry’s commercial focus is shifting from hardware specs to AI intelligence, with U.S. players such as NVIDIA, Google DeepMind and OpenAI building an ecosystem of large‑language, vision‑language‑action and physical‑AI platforms.
- TrendForce’s July 20 analysis highlights this U.S.–China divergence, noting that China leads in volume (Unitree shipped over 5,500 units in 2025) while the U.S. leverages generative‑AI advances.
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2-year-old UK startup Humanoid has raised $152 million at a $1.35 billion valuation. Here is the company's HMND 01 humanoid robot.
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Europe has a new billion-dollar startup, and it’s Humanoid, a two-year-old company headquartered in London that developed its humanoid robot, HMND 01, in near-record time. Today, London-based Humanoid announced that it has raised a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation. The funding comes just months after the company signed a 1,000-robot deal with Schaeffler and secured production capacity, backed by Bosch, that would enable the production of 100,000 units over the next five years. London-based Humanoid has become Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn, raising a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion valuation. This funding brings their total to $270 million, with investments from Prime Movers Lab, Schaeffler, and Bosch, among others. The two-year-old company achieved rapid growth by developing its wheeled robot, HMND 01, and securing major deals, including a 1,000-robot order with Schaeffler and production capacity from Bosch for 100,000 units. Humanoid differentiates itself with a wheeled design, enabling quicker European certification compared to bipedal robots. This move signifies growing momentum for humanoid robotics in Europe, challenging the US and China. Their AI platform, KinetIQ, aims to integrate robots into industrial settings, with The company is also developing a legged humanoid robot, but it spending most of its development energy on the wheeled version for now.
Humanoid says it has already run nine proof-of-concept projects across logistics, manufacturing and retail in the past year, with a tenth underway and plans to begin longer three-to-six-month commercial pilots at customer sites starting late this year, using a "Beta" robot due in Q4. It has also announced partnerships with SAP, Nvidia, Bosch and Siemens, and the big deal with Schaeffler to deploy potentially thousands of robots.
"This funding gives us the resources to move even faster and to turn humanoid robots from breakthrough technology into everyday industrial tools,” CEO Sokolov said.
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