Humanoid expands executive team with senior hires in AI and Growth

Humanoid announces the addition of two senior leaders to its executive team, bringing the company’s total headcount to over 160 world-class professionals across engineering, product, and business. These appointments reflect the company’s mission to build reliable, safe, and scalable robots for real-world tasks.

Boris Yangel, Head of AI

Joining as Head of AI, Boris Yangel brings more than 17 years of experience in solving problems using machine learning and deep learning. He has worked across a wide variety of domains, including image search, self-driving cars, protein-ligand interactions, voice assistants and LLM-based agents.  At Humanoid, he will lead the development of the company’s end-to-end AI systems, driving capabilities in perception, decision-making, and human-robot interaction. 

Before joining the team, he held the position of Head of AI at Nebius, one of the world’s leading AI infrastructure companies. He also spent over seven years at Yandex as a Staff Engineer, where he led teams developing natural language understanding technologies and applying deep learning methods to behavior prediction and planning challenges for self-driving vehicles. “For the last decade, AI has largely lived in the digital space, but the next frontier is physical. At Humanoid, we are building an integrated AI stack to power intelligent humanoid robots that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world, working safely and reliably alongside people. It is an ambitious challenge, and I am honored to lead the team towards achieving this goal,” he noted.

Jochen Rudat, Chief Growth & Revenue Officer

Also joining the leadership team is Jochen Rudat appointed as Chief Growth & Revenue Officer. He brings over a decade of leadership experience at Tesla, where he helped grow the European business and led key global projects. Since then, Jochen has been a business angel and advisor to startups turning big ideas into real products people love. As Humanoid expands its commercial efforts, he will lead global growth, customer acquisition, commercial strategy, and revenue operations. 

With these appointments, Humanoid strengthens its leadership team as the company moves toward unveiling its alpha prototype later this year. While engineering and deployment efforts continue to scale, the addition of experienced leaders in AI and commercial operations will help Humanoid drive the development and delivery of advanced humanoid robotic systems.

About Humanoid 

Humanoid is a UK-based robotics innovation company dedicated to developing advanced humanoid robots that enhance human capabilities. Founded by Artem Sokolov in 2024, Humanoid brings together over 160 engineers, researchers, and innovators from top global tech companies. With offices in London, Boston, and Vancouver, the company is focused on building commercially viable, scalable, and safe robotic solutions for real-world applications.

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