Humanoid just became a unicorn.
The London-based robotics company announced Tuesday it had raised $152 million in a Series A round at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, making it Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn just two years after its founding.
The funding round, which brings Humanoid’s total funding to date to $270 million, was led by Prime Movers Lab, the venture firm behind earlier investments in Figure AI and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Participating investors included German motion technology company Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital, and Aglaé Ventures, the investment vehicle of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault, whose broader portfolio includes stakes in Uber, Netflix, and Revolut. Humanoid describes the round as the largest Series A ever raised by a humanoid-first robotics company in Europe, saying it positions the company as the leading humanoid-first robotics unicorn across the United Kingdom and continental Europe.
Humanoid builds industrial humanoid robots powered by a proprietary AI system called KinetIQ, designed to let robots understand, reason through, and execute physical tasks in real industrial environments. The company said it has completed nine industrial deployments with Fortune 500 partners so far and has secured roughly 34,000 robot pre-orders, representing a $2.4 billion commercial pipeline. Confirmed partners include SAP, Nvidia, Bosch, and Siemens, along with what the company calls the industry’s largest publicly announced commercial humanoid robotics agreement to date: a deal with Schaeffler covering large-scale deployment of thousands of robots across manufacturing environments.
The new capital will fund development of Humanoid’s next-generation robotics platform, the start of mass manufacturing for its wheel-based humanoid robots, and continued work on KinetIQ as the company pushes toward a general-purpose industrial robot. Commercial deployments at customer facilities across logistics, manufacturing, and retail are set to begin with a Beta version rollout in the fourth quarter of 2026.
“In just two years, we’ve gone from an idea to becoming Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn, partnered with some of the world’s leading industrial companies and built one of the strongest pipelines in the industry,” said Humanoid founder and CEO Artem Sokolov in a press release, adding that what the company has accomplished would typically take a decade and crediting the milestone to his team.
Zia Huque, general partner at Prime Movers Lab, said in a press release that humanoid robotics would be one of the defining technologies of the next decade, and that he expected the field to consolidate around a small number of category leaders across the US, Europe, and China, with Humanoid positioned among them.
In the release, Schaeffler CEO Klaus Rosenfeld and Bosch CTO Mathias Pillin both framed their companies’ involvement as strategic as well as financial. Bosch, through its Robert Bosch Robotics subsidiary, will act as Humanoid’s contract manufacturing partner, providing hardware design, production, and supply chain expertise on top of its investment. Rosenfeld described Schaeffler’s backing as both a strategic investment and a commercial partnership aimed at helping shape the shift from humanoid robotics as a visionary concept to an industrial reality.
The raise comes as investment in humanoid robotics accelerates globally, with most funding and deployment activity to date concentrated in the US and China. Humanoid’s backers framed the round as evidence that Europe can produce globally competitive physical AI companies at the cutting edge of the field, rather than ceding the category entirely to American and Chinese rivals.
Humanoid did not disclose specific pricing for its robots or a detailed commercial rollout schedule beyond the company’s planned Q4 2026 Beta launch. The company said further announcements about its next-generation platform, along with additional customer deployments, are expected as development progresses through the rest of the year.