Humanoid

Robotics · AI Hardware · Deeptech

Funding

Humanoid raises $152M Series A at $1.35B, UK's first robotics unicorn

The London startup skips legs for wheels, betting industrial buyers want reliability now over humanoid mimicry.

• Humanoid closed a $152 million Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn.
• Founded two years ago in London by CEO Artem Sokolov, Humanoid builds wheeled robots for factories and warehouses, diverging from the bipedal designs favored by many US and Chinese rivals.
• The company says it already holds 34,000 robot pre-orders worth $2.4 billion, despite not yet shipping a commercial unit.
• The new capital brings Humanoid's total funding to $270 million, earmarked for its next-gen platform, KinetIQ AI system, and mass production of wheeled units.
• Lead investor Prime Movers Lab also backed Figure AI, now valued at $39 billion, showing venture capital's escalating conviction in humanoid robotics as a category.
• Humanoid plans to place beta robots at customer sites in logistics, manufacturing, and retail starting in the fourth quarter of 2026, ahead of full mass production.
• By betting on wheeled, industrial-first robots rather than consumer-facing bipedal humanoids, Humanoid is carving a distinct commercial path as competition with Figure AI, Tesla's Optimus, and Chinese rivals intensifies.