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Humanoid hits unicorn status on $152 million raise
Jul 21, 2026SOURCE: thehumanoid.ai
SO WHAT
The window is opening for physical labor to be repriced around machine capability, and the winners will control the hardware layer, not just the models.
Humanoid closed a $152 million round at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, becoming Europe’s first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn. The signal is clear: embodied automation is moving from prototype to capitalized phase transition.
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