{"city":null,"name":"TARS Robotics","slug":"tars-robotics","facts":[{"date":"2026-04-01","type":"partnership","value":"GL Ventures, HSG, and Meituan participated in the Pre-A funding round","source":"Caixin"},{"date":"2026-04-01","type":"funding_round","value":"Pre-A","source":"Caixin"},{"date":"2025-07-01","type":"funding_round","value":"angel+ round","source":"TechNode"},{"date":null,"type":"judged_commercial","value":"1","source":""},{"date":null,"type":"judged_leverage","value":"3","source":""},{"date":null,"type":"judged_progress","value":"5","source":""}],"peers":[{"name":"Tesla","rank":1,"slug":"tesla","score":"91.5"},{"name":"Unitree","rank":2,"slug":"unitree","score":"89"},{"name":"AgiBot","rank":4,"slug":"agibot","score":"88.5"},{"name":"Figure","rank":5,"slug":"figure","score":"88"},{"name":"Boston Dynamics","rank":6,"slug":"boston-dynamics","score":"87"},{"name":"DexForce","rank":9,"slug":"dexforce","score":"85"}],"stage":null,"state":null,"aliases":["TARS","它石智航"],"country":"China","domains":[{"why":"TARS Robotics is a humanoid robotics company, as indicated by its humanoid-focused wire-harness assembly capability and substantial financing for development and commercialization.","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":51,"tier":"member","layer":"Systems","total":64,"domain":"Humanoids","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":2,"deployment":4,"production":4,"technology":8},"edition":"November 2026","segment":"General-purpose"}],"founded":null,"signals":[{"date":"2026-08-14","header":"SCALEFORCE started a million-yuan-scale data order for TARS Robotics.","outlet":"QbitAI 量子位"},{"date":"2026-07-06","header":"TARS deployed the AWE3.5 embodied model for precision automotive wire-harness assembly.","outlet":"QbitAI 量子位"},{"date":"2026-01-19","header":"TARS Robotics released the open World in Your Hands dataset for physical AI.","outlet":"The Robot Report"},{"date":"2026-01-08","header":"TARS demonstrated manipulation capabilities for logistics and service work at CES 2026.","outlet":"humanoid.guide"}],"website":"https://tarsrobotics.com","category":"Humanoids · Systems","categories":[{"name":"General-purpose","domain":"Humanoids","parent":"Humanoids · Systems"}],"last_round":null,"updated_at":"2026-09-22T22:12:51.483+00:00","facts_total":12,"positioning":"TARS is the capital story of Chinese embodied AI: a $122M angel+ round in July 2025 (a domestic record) followed by a $455M Pre-A in April 2026 co-led by GL Ventures, HSG and Meituan — described by Caixin as China largest single humanoid financing round — all before meaningful commercial deployment. Technically it targets precision manufacturing tasks, claiming its humanoid solves wire-harness assembly, one of the hardest unsolved dexterity problems in factory automation; if that claim holds at production quality, the valuation logic follows. Today it scores as maximal momentum and firepower on minimal deployed evidence.","sub_category":"General-purpose","signals_total":4,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/tars-robotics","title":"TARS Robotics · humanoids, China · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"TARS Robotics is a humanoid robotics company, as indicated by its humanoid-focused wire-harness assembly capability and substantial financing for development and commercialization. Humanoids 100 rank 51 (score 64) 4 signals and 12 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}