Humanoid

Humanoid is looking for a Chief Financial Officer to join our team in London. As we move from prototype validation toward commercial deployment, we are looking for a finance leader who can help shape the next stage of our growth. This role will own and evolve Humanoid’s financial strategy, working closely with the CEO and executive team across fundraising, forecasting, investor relations, financial planning, reporting, controls, and long-term financial roadmap development. We are looking for someone with experience in senior financial leadership, high-growth technology environments, fundraising, investor relations, financial markets, and scaling operations in a fast-moving company. This is a rare opportunity to help build the financial foundation for one of the fastest-moving companies in humanoid robotics. If you want to help bring commercially scalable humanoid robots into the real world, we would love to hear from you. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dST5Ba_f

Great to see Humanoid included in this map of robotics and AI companies in London. London is indeed a great place to build robotics right now: we’ve met a lot of incredibly talented people here, and some of them have even become our colleagues and partners. At Humanoid, we’re proud to be part of a growing community pushing robotics from research and prototypes toward real-world deployment. Thanks to Lukas M. Ziegler for putting this map together and helping spotlight the ecosystem 🦾

After the recent announcements with Bosch and Schaeffler, one thing is clear: Humanoid is entering a new stage of growth and looking for new people to join the team. With Bosch, we are moving to a manufacturing agreement to produce HMND 01 robots for the European market. With Schaeffler, we have signed a landmark deployment agreement to bring thousands of humanoid robots into live manufacturing operations. As a result of these announcements, we are scaling globally and expanding our teams across London, Boston, Vancouver, and San Diego in: • Business Development • Engineering • Finance • HR • Operations • Product We are looking for people who want to build at speed, solve hard problems, and help bring humanoid robots from prototypes into real deployment. Explore open roles: https://lnkd.in/ed8RKhGc

How do you train robots new skills in days rather than months? At Humanoid, we have created a unique data collection and robot training process. Reuters explored this when they visited our office and spoke with our founder, Artem Sokolov, and CTO, Jarad Cannon. Inside the lab, the team works across many parts of the robot training and data collection pipeline. One example is UMI Data Collection, where we use Universal Manipulation Interfaces to generate scalable, high-fidelity robot learning datasets for manipulation and embodied AI applications. Another is Egocentric Data Collection, where we capture first-person human demonstration data using Meta Quest systems to improve robot imitation learning and embodied AI models. This is how robots learn faster, adapt better, and move closer to real-world deployment. Check the Reuters video — link in the first comment.

Today, after the successful completion of a joint POC in March 2026, we announce a partnership with Bosch, marking the transition to scaled production of humanoid robots. The POC focused on an intralogistics use case: HMND 01 robots autonomously transferred boxes from a conveyor to a trolley in Bosch’s dynamic logistics environment in Bühl, Germany. The POC involved handling 5 different box sizes across multiple footprints, heights and varying weights. Orchestrated through KinetIQ, Humanoid’s proprietary AI framework, the POC achieved its objectives, confirming both the technical readiness and scalability of the approach.  Following these results, Humanoid and Bosch have entered into a manufacturing agreement to support the production of HMND 01 humanoid robots for the European market.  “For Humanoid, this agreement is a critical step in our roadmap, bridging the gap between POC validation and large-scale deployment. Our goal has always been to shorten the path between innovation and real-world integration, and this agreement reflects that approach. Together with Bosch, as a strong strategic manufacturing partner, we are committed to bringing humanoid robots into industrial settings, scaling their deployment, and accelerating adoption across logistics, manufacturing, and beyond,” said Artem Sokolov, Founder and CEO of Humanoid. We are proud to take this next step together with Bosch. More details: https://lnkd.in/dPKReiQp

Today, we’d like to share a number that our whole team is excited about: 42,000 sq ft. Can you guess what it means? You guessed it right — Humanoid is moving to a new London office! The Humanoid team (and our robots) now have a wonderful new home at One Triton Square, Regent’s Place, giving us more room to build, test, iterate, and scale. This incredible change happened thanks to the collaboration between our team, Royal London Asset Management, and British Land. We’re excited to join a growing science and technology hub alongside companies including Anthropic, Gilead Sciences, and others. As Thomas Shepherd, Chief Operating Officer at Humanoid, said: "Humanoid is one of the fastest-growing robotics companies in the world, developing general-purpose humanoid robots — starting with the real challenges facing our industrial customers. Since founding two years ago, we've grown from our first 3,000 sq ft office to 42,000 sq ft at One Triton Square. The new space will give us the environment to further scale our team, accelerate development, and build within one of Europe's most dynamic tech ecosystems. Being part of a community of leading technology and science companies creates opportunities for partnership, collaboration, and innovation — we're delighted to be making the Regent's Place campus our new home." Well said, Thomas — now it’s time to build more robots! 🦾 🦾 🦾

A big announcement for Humanoid — and one we’ve worked hard towards: we’ve secured a landmark deal with Schaeffler to deploy thousands of humanoid robots. Humanoid has signed a binding, phased deployment with Schaeffler, a leading Motion Technology Company, to integrate humanoid robots directly into live manufacturing operations. The first systems go live in Germany before the end of 2026. The agreement is structured around a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) model. Under this model, Humanoid provides the robotic systems together with the related services required for end-to-end deployment and operation, including connection to the fleet management software, maintenance, 24/7 technical support, updates, and ongoing performance management. In addition to the deployment contract, Humanoid has also signed a 5-year supply agreement with Schaeffler for supply of actuators. Under this agreement, Schaeffler will become Humanoid’s preferred supplier, covering more than 50% of the company’s demand for joint actuators for its wheeled-based platforms through 2031. This partnership is expected to translate into the supply of a seven-digit number of actuators. This achievement wouldn’t be possible without our strong partnership with NVIDIA Robotics and a simulation-first approach to Physical AI development. More details here: https://lnkd.in/e2PC4ZSa

Want a sneak peek inside our lab with Artem Sokolov and Jarad Cannon as they talk about our robot-training “secret sauce”? Then check out this great video from Reuters 👇 https://lnkd.in/evD9c2Rh At Humanoid, we’re building HMND 01 Alpha and KinetIQ around a simple idea: a humanoid company should not need a separate intelligence layer for every product. Our AI stack, KinetIQ, is designed to share capabilities across humanoid products for industrial, service, and home applications. Where do you think humanoids will see meaningful adoption first: factories, service environments, or homes?

Three ways to spend your summer building robots in London. Humanoid Summer 2026 internships are open. Three domains open this summer: - Controls — Train the robot to move, balance, and manipulate in the real world. - Perception & Spatial AI — Teach the robot to see and understand the world. - Software Engineering — Build the stack that keeps everything running. Pick your domain. Build your solution. Submit your GitHub repo. The best applications won't look like anyone else's. We're not after polish, we're after originality, technical depth, and the kind of thinking that solves problems no one's solved yet. If you're a student, recent grad, or self-taught builder — this is your invitation. Applications close 25 May. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/ed8RKhGc

Yet another big milestone for Humanoid has been achieved. We’ve been included in CB Insights’ AI 100: The most promising artificial intelligence startups of 2026. The competition this year was very strong — out of 17,000 companies, only 100 were selected, showing strong market traction, investor quality, and talent. This year, Humanoid also moved from the “validating” into the “deploying” category within the ranking — an important signal that our technology is moving beyond experimentation and into real-world applications. This recognition reflects the progress we’ve made in building HMND 01 Alpha and our AI stack, KinetIQ, bringing AI beyond the digital world into real environments — where robots perceive, reason, and act. At Humanoid, we’re working toward a clear goal: building commercially scalable, safe, and advanced humanoid robots that can integrate into everyday life and amplify human capacity. Huge thank you to everyone at Humanoid for the pace, focus, and execution — and to our partners who help make this possible. We’re proud of how far we’ve come and even more excited about what’s ahead! Check the ranking here: https://lnkd.in/eCTeZx46