The VETTDD 50 · UK startups · 2026
Artem Sokolov
Founder and CEO, Humanoid · thehumanoid.ai ↗
Humanoid robots have spent years as demos and prototypes. Artem Sokolov’s two-year-old London company has a binding contract to put thousands of them on German factory floors
- Series A at a $1.35bn post-money valuation, July 2026
- $152m
- total raised to date
- $270m
- engineers, researchers and staff
- 250+
- first robots go live at Schaeffler sites in Germany
- Dec 2026