Investment: “Motion raises $2M”
Motion, a Brussels-based robotics company that provides humanoid robots to industrial, warehouse and logistics firms, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to expand its Humanoids-as-a-Service (HaaS) platform and move existing industrial pilots into commercial deployment. The round was led by Extantia Capital.
Other participants in the round included Norrsken Evolve.
Founded in 2026 and based in Brussels, Motion was founded by Alexander Stevens, who serves as the company’s CEO. The startup offers a subscription-based HaaS model designed to reduce the upfront cost and operational complexity of adopting humanoid robots by charging a monthly fee that covers deployment, financing, integration, maintenance and fleet management.
Motion’s service covers the full deployment process — including data collection, robot selection, task training, IT integration, fleet management, financing, insurance, compliance and maintenance — and the company operates a European software layer that applies deployment experience across its network while customers retain control of their data. The hardware-agnostic approach lets customers use robots suited to specific applications, and Motion is launching a partner programme for system integrators and automation specialists.
Motion is currently running five pilots with industrial, warehouse and logistics companies in Belgium; its humanoid robots are being trained for tasks such as loading goods into crates, packing containers into boxes and placing components on conveyor belts while working alongside existing employees.
The new funding will be used to move Motion’s five pilots into full production, grow the team and expand the company’s robot fleet, with an initial geographic focus on scaling across the Benelux region.
“Europe has a robot adoption problem. 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 Motion.
