Company record
Humanoid
Updated October 19, 2026 · Presspool
Humanoid is a London-based company building industrial humanoid robots, including the wheeled HMND 01 Alpha, run by its proprietary KinetIQ AI. thehumanoid.ai
Funding
Latest announced financing: $152 million, Series A, led by Prime Movers Lab, announced July 21, 2026.
- $152 million Series A, announced July 21, 2026. Led by Prime Movers Lab. Sources: thehumanoid.ai, techtimes.com.
Whether AI names Humanoid
- On the Humanoid robots map: named or cited in 4 of 53 answers to Presspool's Humanoid robots questions on October 19, 2026 (ChatGPT 0 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 1 of 8, Gemini 1 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 2 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 5). See the map. Most often named in the same answers: Agility Robotics (3), Apptronik (3), Figure (3), Unitree (3), 1X (2).
- On the Physical AI map: named or cited in 6 of 54 answers to Presspool's Physical AI questions on October 19, 2026 (ChatGPT 2 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 0 of 8, Gemini 1 of 8, Copilot 1 of 8, Google AI Mode 1 of 8, Google AI Overviews 1 of 6). See the map. Most often named in the same answers: Apptronik (6), AgiBot (5), Figure (5), Unitree (5), 1X (4).
Sources AI cites when it names Humanoid
Presspool asked its 8 Humanoid robots questions on October 19, 2026; 4 of the 53 answers named or cited Humanoid, on Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode. The sites those 4 answers cited most:
- thehumanoid.ai: 4 of 4 answers
- dealroom.co: 2 of 4 answers
- newmarketpitch.com: 2 of 4 answers
- businesstimes-bd.com: 1 of 4 answers
- evsint.com: 1 of 4 answers
- eweek.com: 1 of 4 answers
- forbes.com: 1 of 4 answers
- futunn.com: 1 of 4 answers
- ground.news: 1 of 4 answers
- humanoidindex.org: 1 of 4 answers
Presspool asked its 8 Physical AI questions on October 19, 2026; 6 of the 54 answers named or cited Humanoid, on ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews. The sites those 6 answers cited most:
- thehumanoid.ai: 4 of 6 answers
- forbes.com: 3 of 6 answers
- humanoidroboticstechnology.com: 3 of 6 answers
- agilityrobotics.com: 2 of 6 answers
- humanoidsdaily.com: 2 of 6 answers
- linkedin.com: 2 of 6 answers
- openai.com: 2 of 6 answers
- reuters.com: 2 of 6 answers
- rossdawson.com: 2 of 6 answers
- wsj.com: 2 of 6 answers
Related records
Also on the Humanoid robots map: 1X, AeiROBOT, AgiBot, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Astribot, Booster Robotics, Clone Robotics, Dexmate, Donut Robotics, EngineAI, Engineered Arts, Figure, Foundation, Fourier, Galbot, Generative Bionics, Holiday Robotics, Kepler Robotics, Leju Robotics, LimX Dynamics, NEURA Robotics, Noble Machines, Noetix Robotics, Persona AI, Reflex Robotics, Robotera, Spirit AI, UBTech Robotics, Unitree.
Also on the Physical AI map: 1X, AeiROBOT, AgiBot, Agile Robots, Agility Robotics, Aleph, Apptronik, ASI, Astribot, Bedrock Robotics, Booster Robotics, Clone Robotics, Collaborative Robotics, Destro AI, Dexmate, Dexterity, Donut Robotics, Dyna Robotics, EngineAI, Engineered Arts, Feather, Field AI, Figure, Foundation, Fourier, Galbot, Generalist AI, Generative Bionics, Genesis AI, Holiday Robotics, Inbolt, Kepler Robotics, Leju Robotics, LimX Dynamics, NEURA Robotics, Noble Machines, Noetix Robotics, Persona AI, Physical Intelligence, Reflex Robotics, RLWRLD, Robotera, Sanctuary AI, Skild AI, Spirit AI, Sunday Robotics, TacnIQ, Tangent Robotics, The Bot Company, UBTech Robotics, Unitree.