The British industrial humanoid robot maker Humanoid has raised $152 million in financing, and will use the money to strengthen its technology leadership and accelerate its commercial deployments and business expansion.
The “Series A” financing brings the firm’s total amount raised to date to $270 million. The funding round was led by venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab, with additional participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital, and Aglaé Ventures.
According to Humanoid, much of the Physical AI momentum has been concentrated until now in the United States and China, but the new investment demonstrates that the UK and continental Europe can produce and scale globally competitive humanoid robotics companies at the cutting-edge of the field.
“Humanoid robotics will be one of the defining technologies of the next decade, reshaping how commercial and industrial work gets done,” said Zia Huque, General Partner at Prime Movers Lab. “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.”
Backed with the surge of fresh capital, Humanoid said it will now 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.
