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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
- 3Bosch1× joint
- 4NVIDIA1× joint
- 5Robert Bosch GmbH1× joint
- 6Schaeffler1× joint
Most recent
- Humanoid AI x Bosch2026-07-21with Boschjust announced
- Humanoid x Bosch2026-05-26with Robert Bosch GmbHoperating
- with Robert Boschoperating
- Bosch x Humanoid2026-05-21with 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
Current leadership (12)
- Jeff Cardenas Co-Founder & CEOreported, not verified
- Artem Sokolov CEO & Founder, FounderSEC-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
previously at Humanoid
later founded Humanoid
- Artem Sokolovcofounderno longer at company
previously at Humanoid
later founded Humanoid
- Jeff Cardenascofounder
previously at Apptronik
- Artem Sokolovsole
previously at Humanoid
later founded Humanoid
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
109 peers across 1 segment. Every Humanoid competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
humanoid(109)
68 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 574.5255335898561) · leader Figure AI at 1207%
- Astribotdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Holiday Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- THEKER Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AI2 Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $302.0M
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Partnerships
8 total · 6 operating · 2 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
- with Robert Boschoperating
- Bosch x Humanoid2026-05-21with Robert Boschoperating
- Humanoid x Schaeffler2026-05-20with Schaeffler Groupjust announced
Most-frequent partners
- 1Robert Bosch2× joint5 total
- 2Schaeffler Group2× joint5 total
- 3Bosch1× joint
- 4NVIDIA1× joint
- 5Robert Bosch GmbH1× joint
- 6Schaeffler1× joint
All 8 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Humanoid x BoschwithRobert Bosch GmbHmanufacturing2026-05-26operating
- manufacturing2026-05-21operating
- manufacturing2026-05-21operating
- Humanoid Ltd x Schaeffler deployment and supplywithSchaefflerdeployment2026-05-13operating
- deployment2026-01-15operating
- technology2026-01-13operating
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
- 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
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.
PartnershipHumanoid x Bosch
2026-05-26London-based Humanoid partnered with Robert Bosch GmbH to scale production of its HMND 01 wheeled humanoid robots for the European market. Bosch serves as contract manufacturing partner after a successful proof of concept at a Bosch intralogistics facility in Buhl, Germany in March 2026.
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 2026-10-10
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Last reviewed 2026-10-10
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Methodology surface for Humanoid.Peer companies
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- 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.
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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
Humanoid robots that use AI are moving from viral videos to real-world work. From artificial intelligence training and data gaps to factory trials and global co
Humanoid robots competed in various events on day one of the World Robot Games, with one even breaking Usain Bolt's world record in the 100 meter sprint. Mor
Watch live coverage of the final day of the Olympics-like World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing where more than 2,000 robots from 16 countries are competing acr
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The Trump administration will ban foreign-made humanoid robots in the U.S. as China seeks to dominate the emerging high-tech market. Speaking to NBC News, the F
For the first time, surgeons at UC San Diego have operated using humanoid robots, removing gallbladders in two procedures on pigs, a key step before any human t
The second annual World Humanoid Games are set to take place in Beijing. It comes as tension continues to build between China and the U.S. in a technological ar
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China has displayed its advancements in robotics and AI at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing. The event saw a robot named Lightning best Usain Bolt’s wo
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Chinese start-up Unitree has unveiled its new humanoid robot called ‘Superman’, which it says can jump up to 2 metres and run 100m faster than any human has. S
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The second edition of the World Humanoid Robot Games is underway in Beijing, China, with more than 2,000 robots from over 600 teams across 16 countries taking p
Tiangong Ultra, a humanoid robot manufactured by Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics, or X-Humanoid, clocked 8.85 seconds in the 100m semifinal of th
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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
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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