Humanoid, an AI and robotics company building industrial humanoid robots, today announced a €133 million ($152 million) Series A financing at a €1.1 billion ($1.35 billion) post-money valuation – cementing its position as Europe’s newest unicorn. This funding brings the total amount raised to date to €236 million ($270 million).
David Cendon Garcia
Humanoid, an AI and robotics company building industrial humanoid robots, today announced a €133 million ($152 million) Series A financing at a €1.1 billion ($1.35 billion) post-money valuation – cementing its position as Europe’s newest unicorn.
This funding brings the total amount raised to date to €236 million ($270 million). The round was led by Prime Movers Lab, with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital, and Aglaé Ventures.
“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. 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.
“This funding gives us the resources to move even faster and to turn humanoid robots from breakthrough technology into everyday industrial tools,” says Artem Sokolov, Founder and CEO of Humanoid.
Humanoid’s Series A places it within a broader flow of capital into European physical AI, industrial robotics and warehouse automation during 2026.
EU-Startups has reported rounds including up to €1.2 billion for Germany’s NEURA Robotics, €93 million for Stuttgart-based Sereact, €73 million for Barcelona-based THEKER, €50 million for fellow London company Encord, €26 million for Norway- and US-based Trener Robotics, €9.8 million for UK-based Dexory, €8.3 million for Warsaw-based Nomagic and €6 million for Budapest-based Allonic.
These amount to up to approximately €1.60 billion when Humanoid is included.
“Humanoid robotics will be one of the defining technologies of the next decade, reshaping how commercial and industrial work gets done. We expect the field to consolidate around a handful of category leaders across the US, Europe, and China. Humanoid AI will be one of a small cadre of robotics companies that will define humanoid robotics in Europe and beyond,” says Zia Huque, General Partner at Prime Movers Lab.
Founded in 2024, Humanoid is a London-based AI and robotics company that specialises in industrial humanoid robots.
With its wheeled robots, Humanoid aims to address global labor shortages across manufacturing, logistics and other critical sectors, solving real operational problems for its customers.
The company’s vertically integrated approach combines proprietary robotics hardware with its own AI brain, KinetIQ, which enables robots to understand, reason, and execute complex physical tasks in real industrial environments.
According to the company, Europe is approaching a defining moment for its tech ecosystem, positioning the region among the global leaders. Until now, much of the Physical AI momentum has been concentrated in the United States and China.
The new capital will fund Humanoid’s next phase of growth, strengthening its technology leadership and accelerating its commercial deployments and business expansion. The company will focus on:
Development and launch of its next-generation humanoid robotics 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; Start of mass manufacturing of wheel-based humanoid robots; AI and software development, including Humanoid’s proprietary AI brain KinetIQ, on our way toward a general-purpose robot for industrial applications.
Humanoid has secured major partnerships with Fortune 500 companies, including SAP, NVIDIA, Bosch, and Siemens. Most notably, Humanoid recently signed the industry’s largest publicly announced commercial agreement with Schaeffler for the large-scale deployment of thousands of humanoid robots in manufacturing environments.
Klaus Rosenfeld, CEO of Schaeffler AG, says: “Humanoid robotics is rapidly moving from a visionary concept to an industrial reality, and Schaeffler, as a leading motion technology company, is uniquely positioned to help shape this evolution. By combining our decades of industrial expertise and manufacturing excellence with Humanoid’s breakthrough physical AI platform, we are actively backing one of the most exciting frontiers in technology.
“We are proud to support Humanoid as both a strategic investor and a commercial partner as they scale a technology that holds the power to fundamentally redefine productivity across global industries.”
With this financing, Humanoid aims to accelerate the transition toward a future where intelligent robots work safely alongside people across the world’s industrial economy.
