Humanoid Timeline

Events

• 2026-07-21 - Funding - Humanoid closes $152M Series A at $1.35B valuation - Prime Movers Lab led the completed round, with Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital and Aglaé Ventures participating. Humanoid said the capital will support its next-generation robot platform, KinetIQ expansion, commercial deployments… - source: streetinsider.com
• 2026-07-14 - Award - Humanoid and Schaeffler win Plug and Play Global Innovation Award - The award was presented through STARTUP AUTOBAHN powered by Plug and Play following the Expo 2026 programme. Schaeffler describes the collaboration as supporting scalable humanoid robotics for industrial use. The recognition follows the companies' phased… - source: linkedin.com
• 2026-06-25 - Capability - Humanoid introduces KinetIQ Ascend for real-world RL manipulation - The technology post describes real-hardware reinforcement learning on production manipulation tasks. Reported task results include machine feeding, item handover and bimanual tote handling. The post links the work to industrial production-line and warehouse… - source: thehumanoid.ai
• 2026-05-21 - Partnership - Humanoid signs Bosch contract-manufacturing partnership - The March trial involved autonomous conveyor-to-trolley transfer across five box sizes with differing footprints, heights and weights. Bosch will provide contract manufacturing and Design for Excellence support covering hardware design, production, supply… - source: thehumanoid.ai
• 2026-05-13 - Partnership - Humanoid signs phased deployment agreement with Schaeffler for thousands of humanoid robots - Humanoid signed a binding phased deployment and supply agreement with Schaeffler to integrate humanoid robots into live manufacturing operations. The first systems are scheduled to go live in Germany before the end of 2026, with the initial phase running… - source: thehumanoid.ai
• 2026-03-30 - Demonstration - Humanoid completes live HMND PoC with SAP and Martur Fompak - • Humanoid, in collaboration with SAP and Martur Fompak, completed a proof of concept in a live production logistics environment. • The HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled robot received task instructions from the SAP AI agent, autonomously navigated to designated… - source: roboticstomorrow.com
• 2026-03-30 - Deployment - Humanoid completes logistics proof of concept with SAP and Martur Fompak - SAP Business AI sent instructions through the Joule agent layer and SAP Extended Warehouse Management, connecting the robot to enterprise warehouse tasks over the internet. The robot handled three tote types with an eight-kilogram dual-arm payload limit… - source: thehumanoid.ai
• 2026-03-25 - Market Signal - Humanoid reports 34,000 nonbinding preorders - The indications carried an implied annual recurring revenue figure of approximately US$2.4 billion, contingent on conversion to contracts. The company’s pilot work covered tote handling, intelligent kitting and bearing-ring picking in industrial environments. - source: forbes.com
• 2026-02-05 - Product Launch - Humanoid unveils KinetIQ AI framework for robot fleet orchestration - • Humanoid introduced KinetIQ, an AI framework designed for end-to-end orchestration of humanoid robot fleets. • The system operates through a four-layered architecture, managing tasks from fleet-level goal assignment to millisecond-level joint control. •… - source: thehumanoid.ai
• 2026-01-20 - Demonstration - Humanoid completes automotive demonstration at Ford Innovation Centre - The tote workflow used eight-kilogram loads and achieved 97% autonomous pick-and-place reliability under the test conditions, with 83 units per hour against a 50-unit target. A separate workflow involved navigating to a shelf, locating a thin car-body… - source: thehumanoid.ai
• 2026-01-15 - Deployment - Humanoid and Siemens complete logistics proof of concept - The robot autonomously destacked totes, transported them to a conveyor and presented them for human pickup, working with two tote sizes. The trial met a 60-tote-moves-per-hour target and exceeded 90% overall and autonomous pick-and-place success; continuous… - source: thehumanoid.ai
• 2026-01-13 - Partnership - Schaeffler and Humanoid enter strategic technology partnership - Schaeffler and Humanoid entered a strategic technology partnership for humanoid motion systems. Schaeffler will provide motion components including planetary gear actuator technologies. The collaboration also includes planned deployments of humanoid robots… - source: schaeffler.com
• 2026-01-06 - Capability - Humanoid adopts NVIDIA compute and simulation stack - Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim supported reinforcement learning and hardware-in-the-loop digital twins for navigation, manipulation, teleoperation and whole-body control testing. Simulation helped select actuators, distribute mass and place sensors; six leg… - source: thehumanoid.ai
• 2025-12-02 - Product Launch - Humanoid unveils HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal - The prototype has 29 degrees of freedom excluding end effectors and a rated 15-kilogram bimanual payload, with optional five-finger hands or parallel grippers. Humanoid reported stable walking 48 hours after final assembly and used NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac… - source: thehumanoid.ai
• 2025-09-19 - Product Launch - Humanoid launches HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled for industrial pilots - The platform uses an omnidirectional mobile base, 29 active degrees of freedom and interchangeable hand or gripper end effectors. The launch specification listed a 15 kg bimanual payload and a maximum speed of 7.2 km/h. The Alpha entered early access as an… - source: thehumanoid.ai
• 2025-06-05 - Demonstration - Humanoid Demonstrates Pre-Alpha Prototype at STARTUP AUTOBAHN Expo 2025 - Humanoid showcased the pre-alpha prototype of its general-purpose humanoid robot, HMND 01, at STARTUP AUTOBAHN Expo 2025 in Stuttgart. The demonstration highlighted HMND 01's capabilities, including natural dialogue, face-tracked head movement, and… - source: thehumanoid.ai