Humanoid is a UK-based robotics and AI company focused on creating commercially scalable, safe, and advanced humanoid robots designed to operate in real-world environments and augment human capability. The company’s core technology centrepiece is its proprietary AI framework, KinetIQ, which underpins how its robots perceive, decide, and act across physical tasks — from whole-body control and locomotion to object manipulation and multi-task coordination.
The HMND 01 Alpha platform reflects this Physical AI strategy through its emphasis on full-body coordination, dexterous manipulation, and real-world deployability. The company’s architecture is built to unify perception, motor control, and task-level reasoning within a cohesive embodied system, enabling humanoids to navigate unstructured spaces, handle objects, and collaborate alongside humans.
Unlike systems that separate perception and motion, Humanoid’s KinetIQ stack unifies control across multiple cognitive layers, enabling its flagship HMND 01 robots to translate high-level goals into real-time physical action.
In 2025, Humanoid reset development pace in humanoid robotics: the company built its HMND 01 Alpha wheeled robot in 7 months and bipedal Alpha in 5 months, setting a new industry benchmark compared to the typical 18-24-month cycle. The bipedal Alpha achieved stable walking just 48 hours after final assembly — a breakthrough never before seen in humanoid robotics.
To date, Humanoid has completed 7 POCs with Fortune 500 companies, including projects with Schaeffler, Siemens and Ford, with 2 more POCs underway. The company also partnered with SAP and collaborated with NVIDIA, integrating the full NVIDIA robotics stack. Humanoid has 32,000 pre-orders. These are the market largest numbers for this development stage.
Led by the founder and CEO Artem Sokolov, Humanoid has assembled a team of more than 200 professionals with deep experience in robotics, machine learning, control systems, and deployment. In just one year, the company opened offices in London, Boston, and Vancouver, pushing forward the company’s technology and delivery capacity.
The company is currently developing the Beta version of its platforms and moving to large-scale deployments by 2027.
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