Humanoid Global Holdings Corp

Humanoid closed a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion valuation and has roughly $270 million in total funding. The London-based startup reports more than 34,000 non-binding pre-orders (about $2.4 billion pipeline) for its wheeled HMND 01 industrial robot and cites pilots with Siemens, Ford and a large rollout deal with Schaeffler. Its in-house KinetIQ AI stack reportedly achieves up to 1.5x human speed and high success rates on some tasks, and the company plans contract manufacturing with Bosch and to scale to 150,000 units by 2030 while offering both sales and Robot-as-a-Service with an aimed one-year payback. » More on forbes.com

Humanoid Global has bid farewell to Shahab Samimi as CEO effective August 21 and has appointed Sunny Ray, a current board member, as new CEO with immediate effect. Ray, an engineer with experience in robotics, embodied AI and automation, will receive 200,000 stock options at an exercise price of $0.32 that vest immediately and remain exercisable for five years. The company is accelerating the grant and vesting of certain options and restricted share units for Samimi, will pay him accrued consulting fees through his resignation, and has agreed a success-based brokerage fee for a transaction he brought in. Humanoid Global is an investment company focused on humanoid robotics and embodied AI. » More on de.investing.com

Bosch will from 2027 take over contract manufacturing in its Bühl plant of the humanoid robots HMND 01 from Humanoid and plans to produce several hundred units for industry and logistics. Both companies are also examining the integration of Bosch actuators, motors and sensors into the robots. A proof of concept at Bosch showed that the HMND 01 autonomously lifted boxes of different sizes from a conveyor onto transport carts, controlled by the KinetIQ AI framework. Bosch is also financially invested in Humanoid; the start-up reached unicorn status in July 2026 with a valuation of €1.19 billion. » More on golem.de