U.K.-based Humanoid secures $152M in Series A funding
| Company Name | Date | Funding Round | Round Value | Source | --- --- | Figure AI | Sept. 2025 | Series C | $1.0B+ | Figure funding news | | 1X Technologies | Jan. 2024 | Series B | $100M | Apptronik funding news | | Apptronik | Feb.
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.
| Company Name | Date | Funding Round | Round Value | Source |
| Figure AI | Sept. 2025 | Series C | $1.0B+ | Figure funding news | | 1X Technologies | Jan. 2024 | Series B | $100M | Apptronik funding news | | Apptronik | Feb. 2026 | Series A | $520M | Apptronik funding news | | AI² Robotics | July 2026 | Strategic / Growth | $735M | AI2 funding news | | Apptronik | March 2025 | Series A | $53M | Apptronik funding news | | Apptronik | Feb. 2026 | Series A | $350M | Apptronik funding news | | Agility Robotics | June 2026 | IPO - SPAC | $620M | Agility SPAC news | | Unitree | March 2026 | IPO | Undisclosed | Unitree IPO news | | Leju Robotics | Oct. 2025 | Undisclosed | $200M | Leju funding news | | Unitree | June 2025 | Series C | Undisclosed | Unitree funding news | Humanoid said it plans to use its funding to focus on:
Development and launch of its next-generation humanoid 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; Starting mass production of wheel-based semi-humanoid robots AI and software development, including Humanoid’s proprietary KinetIQ “brain” as a step “on our way toward a general-purpose robot for industrial applications”
The company is deploying at several early access customers. The Robot Report
U.K.-based Humanoid secures $152M in Series A funding
By Mike Oitzman |
The HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled robot. | Credit: Humanoid AI
Humanoid, an AI and robotics company building industrial humanoids, 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.
London-based Humanoid is offering early access to the HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled version, a bimanual mobile manipulator. The robot runs on KinetIQ, an AI framework for end-to-end orchestration of humanoid robot fleets. KinetIQ Ascend extends KinetIQ with the ability to learn from trial and error.
The company, which was founded as SKL Robotics Ltd. in 2024, is also developing a bipedal version of the robot.
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