The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Humanoid: 4 models, 3 deployments across 2 regions, $302.0M raised. 2 sources back the record.
CategoryHumanoids
Overview
UK-based humanoid robotics company, legal entity SKL Robotics Ltd., developing general-purpose industrial mobile manipulators. Founded in 2024 by CEO Artem Sokolov with $50 million in founder-led capital. The company's flagship product is the HMND 01 Alpha, a dual-armed mobile manipulator available in wheeled and bipedal configurations, designed for warehouse, logistics, and manufacturing applications.
Humanoid describes the HMND 01 Alpha as the UK's first industrial humanoid robot. The company operates a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model and signed a binding phased deployment agreement with Schaeffler group in 2026 to roll out a four-digit number of wheeled units across Schaeffler's global production network by 2032. Schaeffler also became a preferred actuator supplier to Humanoid, covering over 50 percent of joint requirements through 2031.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 3 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A (second tranche) post-money
Key facts
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Models (4)
View all models →Current platform
HMND 01
Wheeled industrial humanoid robot (also bipedal variant). 179cm tall, 29 DOF, 15kg bimanual payload (bipedal) / 8kg (wheeled). KinetIQ AI platform. NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX + Intel i9. 3-hour swappable battery. 20,500 pre-orders. 6 POCs completed at Siemens, Ford, Bosch, SAP/Martur Fompak. Schaeffler deployment agreement for thousands of units by 2032.
Current platform
HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal
Bipedal humanoid robot variant designed for performance across industrial tasks. Shares the HMND 01 Alpha platform's AI-driven end-to-end reasoning and configurable end-effectors. Designed for applications requiring bipedal locomotion and manipulation.
Current platform
HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled
Wheeled industrial-grade humanoid robot. 220cm tall, 29 active DOF, 7.2 km/h top speed, 15kg bimanual payload. 360-degree RGB cameras and dual depth sensors. Configurable end-effectors (12-DOF five-fingered hand or 1-DOF parallel gripper). Designed for bin picking, sorting, and materials handling in factory environments.
Current platform
HMND 01 Alpha
Dual-armed mobile manipulator designed for industrial logistics, warehousing, and manufacturing tasks. Available in wheeled (industrial deployment) and bipedal configurations. At 220 cm tall, the HMND 01 Alpha has a bimanual payload of up to 15 kg, a top speed of 7.2 kph, and 29 active degrees of freedom excluding end-effectors. Interchangeable end-effectors include a 12-DoF five-fingered hand and a 1-DoF parallel gripper. Onboard sensing includes 360-degree RGB cameras and two depth sensors. Managed via the company's KinetIQ fleet management framework. Unveiled by Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd.) in September 2025 as the UK's first industrial humanoid robot. Beta version scheduled for Q3 2026; commercial RaaS deployment at Schaeffler starts December 2026.
Partnerships
Every company Humanoid has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Robert Bosch2× joint5 total
- 2Schaeffler Group2× joint5 total
- 3Siemens2× joint6 total
- 4Acer1× joint3 total
- 5Bosch1× joint
- 6Kawada Robotics1× joint2 total
Most recent
- Humanoid AI x Bosch2026-07-21with Boschjust announced
- Humanoid x Bosch2026-05-26with Robert Bosch GmbHoperating
- Bosch x Humanoid2026-05-21with Robert Boschoperating
- with Robert Boschoperating
- Humanoid x Schaeffler2026-05-20with Schaeffler Groupjust announced
Humanoid on the deployment map
View the global map3 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified May 2026. Explore where Humanoid's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Humanoid deployment record →
Relationships
Claims ledger
Public, dated claims by Humanoid, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.
- OpenCapacity · claimed 2026-07-21
“Humanoid raised $152M Series A at $1.35B post-money valuation. Total funding $270M. Prime Movers Lab led. Schaeffler deploying thousands of robots. Bosch as contract manufacturer. Q4 2026 beta deployments across manufacturing, logistics, retail.”
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Current leadership (12)
- Artem Sokolov CEO & Founder, FounderSEC-verified
- Jeff Cardenas Co-Founder & CEOreported, not verified
- Alina Kolpakova Chief Strategy OfficerSEC-verified
- Sotirios Stasinopoulos Chief Product OfficerSEC-verified
- Thomas Shepherd Chief Operations Officersecondary-verified
- Ivan Zaitsev Chief Legal Officersecondary-verified
- Amol Hardikar Chief Financial Officersecondary-verified
- Boris Yangel Head of AISEC-verified
- Devin Billings Head of Core PlatformSEC-verified
- Hessam Maleki Head of LocomanipulationSEC-verified
- Jarad Cannon Chief Technology Officersecondary-verified
- Jochen Rudat Chief Growth & Revenue Officersecondary-verified
ArrivalsJeff Cardenas from Apptronik
DeparturesJeff Cardenas to Apptronik
Founders (4)
- Artem Sokolovsole
- Artem Sokolovcofounderno longer at company
- Jeff Cardenascofounder
previously at Apptronik
- Artem Sokolovsole
Safety record
No incidents on record for Humanoid.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (4)
- Humanoid3 deployments
- Schaeffler Group3 deployments
- Robert Bosch1 deployment
- Siemens1 deployment
Recent coverage
Humanoid in third-party press
Peers
122 peers across 1 segment. Every Humanoid competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
humanoid(122)
68 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 574.5255335898561) · leader Figure AI at 1207%
- Holiday Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Stardust Intelligencedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- THEKER Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AI2 Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AIST Humanoid Research Groupdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (2)
Registry pages whose text names Humanoid.
Companies (1)
Deployments (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $302.0M
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Partnerships
14 total · 6 operating · 8 just announced
Every company Humanoid has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Humanoid AI x Bosch2026-07-21with Boschjust announced
- Humanoid x Bosch2026-05-26with Robert Bosch GmbHoperating
- Bosch x Humanoid2026-05-21with Robert Boschoperating
- with Robert Boschoperating
- Humanoid x Schaeffler2026-05-20with Schaeffler Groupjust announced
Most-frequent partners
- 1Robert Bosch2× joint5 total
- 2Schaeffler Group2× joint5 total
- 3Siemens2× joint6 total
- 4Acer1× joint3 total
- 5Bosch1× joint
- 6Kawada Robotics1× joint2 total
All 14 partnerships
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Funding rounds (2)
Humanoid’s 2 disclosed rounds, $302M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series A (second tranche)2026-07-21
$152M(reported) · $1.4B post
Investors: Prime Movers Lab (lead), Robert Bosch GmbH
- Series A (first tranche)2026-02-11
$150M(reported) · $1.2B post
Timeline
Every recorded move in Humanoid’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
DepartureJeff Cardenas departs
2026-08-23Jeff Cardenas left to join Apptronik
ArrivalJeff Cardenas joins
2026-08-23Jeff Cardenas joined from Apptronik
New supplierNew supplier: Schaeffler Group
2026-08-22Supply: component from Schaeffler Group
New supplierNew supplier: Preferred Robotics
2026-08-22Supply: component from Preferred Robotics
Funding roundSeries A (second tranche) funding round
2026-07-21Series A (second tranche) raising $152000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2026-07-21Series A raising $152000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2026-07-21Series A raising $152000000
PartnershipHumanoid AI x Bosch
2026-07-21London-based Humanoid raised 152M Series A at 1.35B valuation with Bosch signed as contract manufacturing partner for the HMND 01 wheeled humanoid robot platform with production capacity earmarked for up to 100000 units over five years.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 11, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMay 14, 2026
HMND 01 Alpha at Schweinfurt
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMay 14, 2026
HMND 01 Alpha at Herzogenaurach
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMay 13, 2026
HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled at Herzogenaurach
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMay 13, 2026
HMND 01 at Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany
Sources (2)
- U.K.-based startup Humanoid unveils HMND 01 Alpha mobile manipulator · https://www.therobotreport.com/u-k-based-startup-humanoid-unveils-hmnd-01-alpha-mobile-manipulator/ · 2025-09-18
- Scale at Speed: Humanoid and Schaeffler Move to Massive Multi-Thousand Unit Rollout · https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/news/scale-at-speed-humanoid-and-schaeffler-move-to-massive-multi-thousand-unit-rollout · 2026-05-14
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-22
Verification posture
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Last reviewed 2026-10-22
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Methodology surface for Humanoid.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- 1X Technologies5 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Humanoid from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Tesla pushes Optimus deliveries to late 2027, says hands still a problem
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Unitree’s ‘guardian’ humanoid robot lift cars and saves people in dramatic video
China’s Unitree Robotics has unveiled the H2-X, a humanoid robot designed to help in emergencies,...
Jensen Huang puts humanoid robots and physical AI at the centre of NVIDIA’s European ambitions
Humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles and AI systems capable of learning new physical skills were among the central themes of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote at GTC Berlin on…
Italy’s Generative Bionics Plans Physical AI Data Factory Network for Industrial Humanoids
Insider Brief Italian startup Generative Bionics announced it plans to build a multi-site Physical AI Data Factory designed to generate the real-world and simulated data needed to…
Jensen Huang’s Vision for Europe Runs on Plug-In Data Centers
At Nvidia’s GTC in Berlin, Huang unveiled the company’s new plug-in data center—the DSX Pod—as the key to unlocking Europe’s AI infrastructure lag. Oh, and autonomous humanoid…
AGCO to deploy Agility Digit humanoid in Kansas factory
The Agility pilot, which is expected to begin in 2027, will begin at an AGCO production facility for agricultural equipment. The post AGCO to deploy Agility Digit humanoid in…
AEON is making another leap in perception capabilities with NVIDIA Holoscan
Hexagon Robotics’ AEON humanoid relies on advanced spatial intelligence to understand and interpret its environment and optimise the task at hand accordingly. Spatial intelligence…
Italy’s Generative Bionics, AMD team up to train European humanoids
Digital twins will train humanoid robots at scale before they ever enter the world, CEO Daniele Pucci said. Read more: Italy’s Generative Bionics, AMD team up to train European…
‘Humanoids Making Humanoids’ as Schaeffler Opens Lighthouse Factory in China
Insider Brief Schaeffler has opened a 7,500-square-meter factory in Taicang, China, where humanoid robots are assembling components for other humanoid robots while the company…
OpenAI Announces Humanoid Robot Debut For 2027
OpenAI, the renowned creator of ChatGPT, is officially expanding its technological footprint into physical hardware. During an appearance on Fortune magazine’s Sources podcast…
Humanoid robot pushes 77-pound loads and lifts 44 pounds in new demo video
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) have demonstrated an updated...
Machine-readable surfaces
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- REST API: /v1/companies/923d02ff-48f1-4382-b67c-891b373d464c
- Revision history: /companies/humanoid-ltd/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- 1X Technologies5 models
- AgiBot5 models
- AheadForm5 models
Video
Elon Musk showed off Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus once again at the company’s We, Robot Event, claiming: “Whatever you can think of, it will do."
China's technology hub of #Shenzhen has taken policing to the next level. The city has introduced humanoid robots equipped with police gear to patrol the street
Beijing’s “Embodied Tiangong Ultra” robot clinched the historic 100-metre title at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games, finishing in 21.50 seconds with a fully
What happens when one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots explores one of America’s greatest cities? Let’s find out! Learn more at: https://www.agib
The UBTECH UWORLD may be one of the most realistic humanoid robots ever built. Take a quick look at its incredible facial details, lifelike appearance, and the
Final livestream. Six days. Real factory. Real production line. Humanoid robots actually doing the work.
✨ China has introduced the UWorld U1, a new generation of ultra-realistic humanoid robots designed for companionship and human interaction. Unlike industrial ro
Heat Index
Category leader93/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Humanoid draws attention at the 99th percentile but verifies reality at the 88th percentile among humanoids. Hype Gap +10.8, 36th widest among humanoids.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 13 verified deployments. Broad public reach with 44.9M video views.
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Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 22, 2026