A Brussels startup founded this year has secured $2M to rent humanoid robots to European industry on a subscription basis.
Extantia Capital led the pre-seed round, with Norrsken Evolve chipping in.
Motion’s Humanoids-as-a-Service model wraps deployment, financing, integration, maintenance and fleet management into one monthly package, stripping away the upfront cost and operational complexity that keeps manufacturers from trialing humanoids.
The funding shifts existing industrial pilots into commercial deployment, with fleet operations targeted at warehouses across the continent.
Motion enters a segment that is crowded but ballooning: humanoid startups have pulled in billions this year on the back of labor shortages in logistics and manufacturing.
