Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: United Kingdom
• Founded: 2024
• Website: https://humanoid.ai

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Record / Articles
• Sources

Summary

Humanoid develops commercial humanoid robots designed to work in daily human environments. Its HMND 01 Alpha biped is presented as a performance-focused humanoid platform, with the company aiming to build safe, scalable robots for practical physical work.

Market context

They utilize a unique modular architecture that allows the same upper body to be swapped between legs or wheels, powered by their proprietary "KinetIQ" AI framework. HMND 01 HMND 01 humanoid platform.

• Capability: humanoid manipulation and mobility human-environment operation general-purpose task execution AI-driven perception and control
• Strategic position: developer of general-purpose humanoid systems early-stage humanoid platform builder participant in emerging humanoid robotics ecosystem

Products

• HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal
• HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled

Facts

• Website: https://humanoid.ai
• HQ: London, United Kingdom
• Founded: 2024
• Segment: Humanoid
• Funding total: $40M
• Known funding rounds: 1
• Latest funding date: 2025-08-14

Commercially oriented humanoid robots for industrial and daily-life work

Humanoid develops modular humanoid robots under the HMND 01 platform. The company is building wheeled and bipedal humanoid systems with a focus on safe, commercially scalable robots that can work alongside people in industrial and human-scale environments.

• Target environment: Manufacturing sites, logistics environments, industrial facilities, human-scale indoor spaces and future service settings.
• Deployment model: Humanoid platform model built around robot hardware, KinetIQ AI framework, industrial partnerships, actuator supply agreements and staged commercial deployment.
• Customer context: Industrial manufacturers, logistics operators, automation partners, component suppliers and customers evaluating humanoid robots for repetitive or physically demanding tasks.
• Workflow context: Humanoid locomotion, mobile manipulation, bipedal and wheeled platforms, VLM and VLA-based robot control, industrial box handling and human-adjacent work.
• Commercial maturity: HMND has deployment-facing humanoid positioning and industrial partnership activity. Scaling depends on reliable task execution, actuator supply, fleet support, safety and proof that announced deplo…
• Market position: UK humanoid builder positioned around commercial industrial rollouts rather than research-only humanoid demonstrations.
• Adoption constraints: Production scale, reliability, safety, actuator supply, customer integration, manipulation performance, fleet support and the gap between announced deployment volume and operating robots.
• Adjacent context: Humanoid robotics, industrial humanoids, wheeled humanoids, bipedal robots, embodied AI and mobile manipulation.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-25 - Capability - Humanoid introduces KinetIQ Ascend for real-world RL manipulation - The technology post describes real-hardware reinforcement learning on production manipulation tasks.
• 2026-05-21 - Partnership - Humanoid secures Bosch manufacturing partnership after HMND 01 POC - Humanoid announced a Bosch partnership after a March 2026 proof of concept in Bühl, Germany.
• 2026-05-13 - Partnership - Humanoid signs phased deployment agreement with Schaeffler for thousands of humanoid robots - Humanoid signed a binding phased deployment and supply agreement with Schaeffler to integrate huma…
• 2026-03-30 - Demonstration - Humanoid completes live HMND PoC with SAP and Martur Fompak - • Humanoid, in collaboration with SAP and Martur Fompak, completed a proof of concept in a live production logistics environment.
• 2026-02-05 - Demonstration - Humanoid unveils KinetIQ AI framework for robot fleet orchestration - • Humanoid introduced KinetIQ, an AI framework designed for end-to-end orchestration of humanoid robot fleets.
• 2026-01-15 - Deployment - Humanoid and Siemens complete proof of concept for HMND 01 in logistics - The proof of concept involved the HMND 01 autonomously moving totes in Siemens' logistics process.
• 2026-01-13 - Partnership - Schaeffler and Humanoid enter strategic technology partnership - Schaeffler and Humanoid entered a strategic technology partnership for humanoid motion systems.
• 2025-12-02 - Product Launch - HMND launches HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal robot with advanced features - Developed in five months, significantly faster than industry average of 18-24 months.
• 2025-06-05 - Demonstration - Humanoid Demonstrates Pre-Alpha Prototype at STARTUP AUTOBAHN Expo 2025 - Humanoid showcased the pre-alpha prototype of its general-purpose humanoid robot, HMND 01, at STARTUP AUTOBAHN Expo…

Team

• Artem Sokolov - Founder and Chief Executive Officer
• Jarad Cannon - CTO

Relationships

• Schaeffler AG - partner - Strategic technology partnership for humanoid motion systems (Jan 2026). Schaeffler to provide motion components including planetary gear actuator technologies; planned deployments of humanoid…
• Bosch - Contract manufacturing partner - Bosch is Humanoid's contract manufacturing partner for HMND 01 production in Europe.
• Schaeffler AG - customer - Schaeffler AG has a public supply relationship with Humanoid (HMND).
• Schaeffler AG - customer - Humanoid signs phased deployment agreement with Schaeffler for thousands of humanoid robots

Context tags

• Humanoid industrial builder - Peer Group - HMND describes commercially scalable humanoid robots and lists HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal.
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - HMND builds complete humanoid robot systems.
• Factories - Customer Environment - Reuters reports planned Schaeffler factory deployments.
• Bipedal locomotion - Capability
• Warehouse box handling - Workflow - Reuters reports an initial deployment for box handling at Schaeffler.
• Dexterous manipulation - Capability - Box handling/factory workflows imply manipulation, but keep derived until product-level task evidence is attached.
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Large planned deployment is reported, but initial deployment starts later and should not be treated as complete fleet scale.
• Industrial task execution - Workflow - Reuters reports planned Schaeffler deployments for box handling and factory testing.

Customers and deployments

• Named Pilot Site - 1 named Bosch POC site - 2026-05-21 - Bosch - industrial intralogistics proof of concept - Humanoid said HMND 01 completed a March 2026 proof of concept in Bosch's Buhl logistics environment, transfer…
• Named Pilot Site - 1 named Schaeffler site - 2026-05-13 - Schaeffler - industrial manufacturing - Humanoid says HMND 01 has been operating at a Schaeffler facility in Germany after proof-of-concept work. Treat this as o…
• Customer Bound Units - four-digit number of wheeled units by 2032 - 2026-05-13 - Schaeffler - industrial manufacturing - Humanoid says its Schaeffler agreement targets deployment of a four-digit number of wheeled units…

Record / Articles

• 2026-05-21 - Humanoid is turning their robotic platform into an industrialization stack. - The company’s Bosch contract manufacturing agreement completes a fast industrialization sequence spanning component supply, ente…
• 2026-05-13 - Schaeffler adds Humanoid to its factory robot network - Schaeffler’s latest agreement with Humanoid adds a second large disclosed factory rollout to a robotics strategy built around actuators, production da…
• 2026-04-21 - Why Schaeffler keeps showing up in humanoid robotics - Schaeffler is building across supply, co-development, research, and deployment in humanoids. - Korthos: /research/why-schaeffler-keeps-showing-up-in-hu…
• 2026-01-16 - Humanoid completes Siemens proof of concept for industrial logistics - The HMND 01 wheeled Alpha ran a tote-to-conveyor destacking workflow at Siemens' Erlangen factory for two weeks; full metrics disclosed…