Motion1 has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to move five existing humanoid robotics pilots into full production and expand its Humanoids-as-a-Service model across the Benelux and broader European market.
The round was led by Extantia Capital, with participation from Norrsken Evolve. Motion1 plans to use the financing to expand its team and grow its robot fleet.
Founded in Brussels in 2026, Motion1 offers industrial customers humanoid robots through a monthly service model rather than requiring businesses to purchase, deploy and manage the robots themselves.
The company’s monthly fee covers areas including data collection, robot selection, task training, IT integration, fleet management, financing, insurance, compliance and maintenance.
The model is intended to remove several of the operational and financial barriers that can make deploying humanoid robots difficult for industrial companies, particularly as the technology continues to develop.
Motion1 is OEM-agnostic, allowing the company to select robots from different manufacturers depending on the specific industrial task rather than tying customers to a single hardware provider or robot form factor.
The company currently has five pilots with Belgian industrial, warehouse and logistics companies.
Humanoid robots involved in those pilots are being trained for tasks including loading goods into crates, packing containers into boxes and placing components on conveyor belts.
Motion1 plans to convert the pilots into full production deployments while expanding its presence across Europe.
The company is targeting hundreds of robots operating across Europe over the next 12 months, representing a substantial increase from its current pilot-stage deployments.
Motion1 is also launching a partner program for system integrators and automation specialists as it builds out the infrastructure needed to support larger-scale deployments.
The company’s Humanoids-as-a-Service model is designed to give manufacturers access to robotics capacity without requiring them to take on the full upfront cost, integration work and operational responsibilities associated with owning a fleet of humanoid robots.
By combining hardware selection with software, training, financing, insurance, maintenance and compliance services, Motion1 is positioning itself as an intermediary between humanoid robot manufacturers and industrial customers seeking to automate physical work.
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“Europe has a robot adoption problem,” says Alexander Stevens, founder and CEO of Motion, who exited his previous company, ESG software provider Greenomy, in 2025. “Adoption fails on financing, risk and compliance long before it fails on technology. So we take everything that stands between a factory and its first humanoid and turn it into one predictable monthly fee. Hiring a robot should be as easy as hiring a person.”
Alexander Stevens, Founder and CEO of Motion1
“The climate transition is ultimately a physical transformation: factories must produce and deploy vastly more batteries, heat pumps, grid equipment and other clean technologies,” says Yair Reem, Partner at Extantia Capital. “Yet industrial growth is increasingly constrained by labour shortages, lost expertise and inefficient production. By backing Motion, Extantia is investing in the infrastructure needed to scale climate technologies faster, while making European manufacturing more efficient, resilient and globally competitive.”
Yair Reem, Partner at Extantia Capital
“Rebuilding our labour force is essential for Europe. What convinced us to jump on board was Motion’s holistic vision on how to keep Europe building with robotics at the core,” says Alex Bakir, General Partner at Norrsken Evolve.
Alex Bakir, General Partner at Norrsken Evolve
