Organisations Humanoid
16 August 2026
Overview
A UK robotics company developing commercially scalable humanoid robots and AI systems for industrial work.
About
Humanoid is a UK-based robotics company founded by Artem Sokolov in 2024. It develops advanced humanoid robots designed to work alongside people in industrial environments, including manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and retail.
Its core product, HMND 01 Alpha Wheeled, is an industrial humanoid robot designed for autonomous operation at human speed. The platform combines high-torque actuators, advanced mechanics, and an AI system for handling repetitive and physically demanding tasks. Humanoid is also developing a bipedal Alpha platform.
The company’s KinetIQ and KinetIQ Ascend products form an AI framework for end-to-end fleet orchestration, enabling robots to learn from trial and error on real-world industrial tasks. The four-layer KinetIQ stack is built on NVIDIA compute and supports perception, decision-making, control, and human-robot interaction.
Humanoid has offices in London, Boston, and Vancouver, and employs more than 250 engineers, researchers, and innovators across robotics hardware, AI, machine learning, control systems, and production. Artem Sokolov is Founder and Chief Executive Officer.
Details
- Company
- Humanoid
- Location
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Website
- https://thehumanoid.ai/
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/humanoidai/
- Careers
- https://thehumanoid.ai/careers/
- Companies House
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15702488
- Founded
- 2024
- CEO
- Artem Sokolov
- Industry
- Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Size
- 250+
- Tech Stack
- Humanoid Robotics, KinetIQ, NVIDIA Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics Control Systems, Simulation, Edge Computing
- Specialties
- Humanoid Robots, Industrial Automation, Physical AI, Embodied AI, Robotics Hardware, Autonomous Systems, Fleet Orchestration, Machine Learning, Manufacturing Automation, Warehouse Automation