{"title":"AAC Technologies vs Schaeffler: Actuation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/aac-technologies-vs-schaeffler","comparison":"Schaeffler ranks 10 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 85; AAC Technologies ranks 62 with 62. Schaeffler is ahead on deployment, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on production. AAC Technologies is based in Shenzhen, China, Schaeffler in Herzogenaurach, Germany. Schaeffler: Public, founded 1946. AAC Technologies is named in 1 signals and Schaeffler in 161.","companies":[{"name":"AAC Technologies","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/aac-technologies","city":"Shenzhen","country":"China","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"AAC Technologies is a Chinese precision micro-motor and haptic-actuator maker (HKEX:2018, from a smartphone base) positioning its miniature-actuation expertise toward robot joints and dexterous-hand micro-joints, plus acoustics for human-robot interaction. Its relevance is structural (the same basis as Sunny Optical), but no dated humanoid win was found this pass (verified-light). The current group revenue marker is dated.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":62,"score":62,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":7,"firepower":8,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":8,"technology":6},"why":"AAC Technologies, an acoustics and haptics supplier, is applying its precision motors, actuators and miniaturized sensing to robot components.","segment":"Actuation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":1,"facts_total":17},{"name":"Schaeffler","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/schaeffler","city":"Herzogenaurach","country":"Germany","stage":"Public","founded":1946,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Schaeffler is a German motion-technology group (>EUR 22B) taking the most hedged position in the humanoid vertical, playing four roles at once: supplier to ~45 humanoid OEM programs (with first meaningful contracts secured, including a five-year Tier-1 actuator deal with Humanoid UK), buyer committed to two four-digit fleets (>=1,000 Hexagon AEON by 2032 and a four-digit Humanoid Alpha rollout, first units in German plants by end-2026), investor (a Neura Series C participant), and an Agility Digit customer. Mass production of humanoid components launches before end-2026, its component set spanning bearings, roller screws, reducers, motors, sensors, and actuators. Robotics is <1% of 2025 sales, yet the Schaeffler Effect has re-rated its stock as a humanoid proxy, with the CEO targeting an order book in the hundreds of millions of euros by 2030.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":10,"score":85,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":5,"deployment":9,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"Schaeffler supplies actuator systems and motion-technology components for humanoid robots, including formed strain-wave gearboxes intended for humanoid joints.","segment":"Actuation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":161,"facts_total":125}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}