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× joint3 total
- 4Acer1× joint1 total
- 5Bosch1× joint
- 6Kawada Robotics1× joint
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.
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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)
- Jeff Cardenas Co-Founder & CEOreported, not verified
- Artem Sokolov CEO & 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 (2)
- Jeff Cardenascofounder
previously at Apptronik
- Artem Sokolovcofounder
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 (3)
- Humanoid3 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× joint3 total
- 4Acer1× joint1 total
- 5Bosch1× joint
- 6Kawada Robotics1× joint
All 14 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Acer x HumanoidwithAcer1technology—just announced
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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 verifiedVerifiedMar 1, 2026
HMND 01 at Bühl, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedMar 1, 2026
HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled at Bühl, Baden-Württemberg, 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
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Last reviewed 2026-10-22
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Methodology surface for Humanoid.Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
In the press
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Peer companies
- Unitree Robotics12 models
- AgiBot6 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Dobot6 models
- AheadForm5 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
Video
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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 100th percentile but verifies reality at the 85th percentile among humanoids. Hype Gap +14.7, 34th widest among humanoids.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 8 verified deployments. Broad public reach with 96.6M video views.
Signal flags
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 31, 2026