Humanoid alternatives

Humanoid is a London company founded in 2024 that builds humanoid robots for industrial work around its HMND 01 platform. It reports 300-plus employees, further offices in Boston, Vancouver and San Diego, and announced partnership deployments with Schaeffler, Bosch, Siemens and SAP across logistics, manufacturing and retail; disclosed funding totals $270 million, including a $152 million Series A in July 2026 at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation. Zhongke Huiling, founded in Beijing in August 2023, sells full-stack humanoids under the CASBOT brand — bodies, an embodied brain and dexterous hands from one team — aimed first at Chinese factories, mining and energy sites and commercial services, with a 100-plus team. EngineAI, founded in Shenzhen in October 2023, develops its hardware and motion-control stack in-house, including self-developed joint motors, across full-size general-purpose humanoids, bipedal research platforms and a heavy-duty quadruped. Magic Atom, known in English as MagicLab, headquartered in Wuxi with labs and factories in Suzhou, publicly launched in January 2024 with humanoid and quadruped robots and reports operations in 27 countries and regions. NOETIX Robotics, a Beijing company founded in September 2023 by a Tsinghua University and Chinese Academy of Sciences team, targets consumer and research bipeds and bionic interactive robots, selling consumer models through JD.com. Consider Humanoid for industrial deployments backed by named industrial partners; Zhongke Huiling for a full-stack China industrial offer, EngineAI for in-house actuator-led hardware, Magic Atom for a humanoid-and-quadruped range with international operations, and NOETIX for consumer and research bipeds.

Alternatives to Humanoid

Zhongke Huiling

Full-stack humanoid robots under the CASBOT brand — bodies, an embodied ‘brain’ and dexterous hands, aimed at factories first.

EngineAI

EngineAI is a Shenzhen humanoid robot company founded in October 2023 that develops its hardware and motion-control stack in-house, including self-developed joint motors and actuators.

Magic Atom (MagicLab)

Magic Atom, known in English as MagicLab, is a Chinese general-purpose robotics company developing humanoid and quadruped robots under an embodied-intelligence strategy.

NOETIX Robotics

NOETIX Robotics (Songyan Dynamics) is a Beijing humanoid robotics company founded in September 2023 by a team drawn from Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working on general-purpose humanoid bodies, robotic bionics and embodied operating systems with in-house motion-control algorithms and self-developed joints.

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