Humanoid raises $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion valuation, claiming a European first

London-based Humanoid closed a EUR133 million ($152 million) Series A round at a EUR1.1 billion ($1.35 billion) post-money valuation, the company said, calling itself Europe’s first pure-play humanoid-robotics unicorn.

The valuation arrives roughly two years after the industrial-robotics company was founded in 2024, an unusually fast climb that reflects how much capital is chasing physical AI, robots that pair machine-learning models with hardware to do manual work. Prime Movers Lab led the round.

Participants included the German industrial groups Schaeffler and Bosch, Taiwan’s Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital, and Aglae Ventures, the investment vehicle of LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault. The mix of industrial manufacturers and a luxury-goods fortune signals interest in humanoids as factory and logistics labor rather than as consumer gadgets.

Humanoid says it employs more than 250 engineers and researchers across offices in London, Boston, Vancouver and San Diego, and runs its robots on a proprietary four-layer AI framework it calls KinetIQ. The company plans a beta rollout of commercial deployments in logistics, manufacturing and retail in the fourth quarter of 2026, alongside mass manufacturing of a wheeled robot platform.

“This funding gives us the resources to move even faster and to turn humanoid robots from breakthrough technology into everyday industrial tools,” founder and Chief Executive Artem Sokolov said.

The “first pure-play unicorn” label is Humanoid’s own framing, and the valuation rests on ambition more than shipped product: commercial deployments remain in beta, and the company has yet to prove its robots can do paid work at scale. The fourth-quarter rollout will be the first real test of whether the hardware matches the raise.