Humanoid (legal entity SKL Robotics Ltd.) is a London-based industrial humanoid company founded in May 2024 by sole founder and CEO Artem Sokolov, with additional offices in Boston and Vancouver. It closed a $152M Series A in July 2026 at a $1.35B post-money valuation — billed as Europe's first pure-play humanoid unicorn (a superlative disputed by Neura Robotics) — led by Prime Movers Lab with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon FHVC and Aglae Ventures, bringing total capital raised to roughly $270M. Its HMND 01 Alpha line spans a wheeled mobile manipulator (unveiled September 2025) and a bipedal humanoid (unveiled December 2025), both driven by KinetIQ, the company's proprietary four-layer AI framework for orchestrating mixed-morphology fleets. Schaeffler is both a preferred actuator supplier and a phased-deployment customer, while Bosch acts as contract manufacturer (reported capacity up to 100,000 units). The company reports 34,000 pre-orders worth $2.4B ahead of commercial shipments and claims industry-leading development speed — concept-to-robot in seven months (wheeled) and five months (bipedal) — figures it has not independently verified.