Humanoid
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.
Humanoid takes a fast growth path: “In just two years, we’ve partnered with some of the world’s leading industrial companies and built one of the strongest pipelines in the industry,” noted 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,” he said. “This funding gives us the resources to move even faster and to turn humanoid robots from breakthrough technology into everyday industrial tools.”
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; and AI and software development, including Humanoid’s proprietary KinetIQ brain as a step toward a general-purpose robot for industrial applications. The company is deploying at several early access customers.
Source: The Robot Report