Humanoid

A London humanoid-robot company building the HMND 01 in wheeled and bipedal versions.

Humanoid is a humanoid-robot company founded in London in 2024, legally registered as SKL Robotics; its founder is reportedly investor Artem Sokolov. Its product is the HMND 01 Alpha, aimed at factories and logistics, available in a wheeled-base version and a bipedal version. Its companion robot-AI framework, KinetIQ, handles end-to-end scheduling for fleets of robots, and in June 2026 it introduced KinetIQ Ascend, focused on manipulation reliability and speed. In 2026 it announced partnerships in succession with Siemens, and then with NVIDIA, Schaeffler, and Bosch; its website says Schaeffler plans to deploy several thousand of the wheeled robots across its global factories by 2032. In July 2026 it closed a $152 million Series A at a post-money valuation of $1.35 billion, which it says makes it Europe's first pure-play humanoid-robot unicorn.

ExampleIn May 2026, Schaeffler signed an agreement with Humanoid to deploy HMND 01 humanoid robots in its own factories.

Also called

SKL Robotics

Related

Humanoid HMND 01 · Humanoid Robot · Wheeled Humanoid Robot · Schaeffler · Figure AI · Apptronik

Sources

Humanoid 官网 (Chinese)
Humanoid News
Humanoid Secures Landmark Deal with Schaeffler

As of

2026-07