Humanoid announced the $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, lifting cumulative capital to $270 million. The round positions the London company as the leader in European humanoid fundraising and supplies the runway for rapid iteration on both hardware and its KinetIQ AI stack.
The HMND 01 Alpha wheeled platform is already in early-access programs. This bimanual mobile manipulator pairs a wheeled base with dual arms and runs the full KinetIQ framework for fleet orchestration. KinetIQ Ascend adds reinforcement-learning loops so robots improve through trial-and-error on customer sites.
Founder and CEO Artem Sokolov said the company has signed industrial partners and built a pipeline that normally takes a decade to assemble. The new capital will compress that timeline further by funding both the bipedal successor and volume production of the wheeled variant.
Deployment plans center on logistics, manufacturing, and retail. Beta units are scheduled for customer facilities in Q4 2026, with mass production of wheel-based semi-humanoids ramping immediately afterward. The company frames the wheeled form factor as the fastest route to measurable productivity gains while the bipedal version matures.
Schaeffler AG joined as a strategic investor. CEO Klaus Rosenfeld highlighted the combination of Schaeffler’s motion-technology heritage with Humanoid’s physical AI platform. Bosch’s subsidiary Robert Bosch Robotics GmbH signed a contract-manufacturing agreement and will supply hardware design, production, and supply-chain support.
The round stands out against peer activity. NEURA Robotics recently opened a Series C targeting $1.4 billion, yet Humanoid’s A-round size still leads European humanoid financings. Investors appear to be rewarding concrete manufacturing partnerships and a near-term wheeled product over longer-horizon bipedal roadmaps alone.
For builders, the signal is clear: secure contract manufacturing and industrial reference customers early, then layer fleet-level AI on top. Humanoid’s path shows that starting with a wheeled base can accelerate revenue while the harder bipedal and general-purpose capabilities are still in development.
Source: Robotics Business Review.