London-based robotics company Humanoid has raised $152 million in a Series A round at a reported $1.35 billion post-money valuation, giving the UK and European humanoid sector one of its largest funding events to date.
The financing
Prime Movers Lab led the round, with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures. Humanoid says the investment brings its total funding to $270 million.
The company plans to use the capital for its next robot platform, customer deployments, mass manufacturing of wheeled humanoids and further development of its proprietary KinetIQ physical-AI system. It is targeting the first beta robot roll-outs in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Why this matters for European robotics
Humanoid was founded in 2024 and is headquartered in London. Its rapid financing gives a European developer resources to compete in a field whose most heavily funded companies have largely been concentrated in the United States and China.
The company calls itself Europe’s first pure-play humanoid-robotics unicorn. The $1.35 billion valuation is supported by reporting on the financing, but “first” and “pure-play” depend on how the market category is defined, so Robot Harbour keeps that part explicitly attributed.
Industrial partnerships behind the valuation
The funding follows several industrial agreements. Bosch is acting as Humanoid’s contract-manufacturing partner. Schaeffler and Humanoid have announced a phased agreement targeting a four-digit number of wheeled robots across the manufacturer’s facilities by 2032, beginning with German deployments scheduled from December 2026.
At Siemens’ electronics factory in Erlangen, an HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled robot reportedly completed autonomous logistics work at 60 tote moves per hour, with more than eight hours of uptime and a pick-and-place success rate above 90%. Siemens published those trial figures jointly with Humanoid and NVIDIA.
What remains to be demonstrated
Funding, partnerships and proofs of concept are meaningful signals, but they are not the same as a mature fleet operating across many independent customer sites. Humanoid’s beta schedule and larger Schaeffler deployment are still forward-looking, and standard pricing has not been disclosed.
The company’s wheeled design may simplify stability and industrial floor movement compared with a bipedal platform, while still preserving a human-like upper body. Whether that produces competitive lifecycle cost and reliability will depend on the coming deployments.
Robot Harbour tracking
Robot Harbour has added a Humanoid company profile, profiles for the HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled and Alpha Bipedal, and a structured profile of the KinetIQ platform.
Humanoid remains a private company, so it is not part of the live share-price table. Its financing and deployment milestones will be tracked through Robot Harbour’s company and market reporting.