{"title":"AGILE Robots vs Humanoid: Industrial & logistics compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/agile-robots-vs-humanoid","comparison":"AGILE Robots ranks 28 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 74; Humanoid ranks 48 with 65. AGILE Robots is ahead on production, technology, positioning and firepower. Humanoid is ahead on deployment and commercials. Level on progress and leverage. AGILE Robots is based in Munich, Germany, Humanoid in London, United Kingdom. AGILE Robots: Established. AGILE Robots is named in 70 signals and Humanoid in 184.","companies":[{"name":"AGILE Robots","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/agile-robots","city":"Munich","country":"Germany","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"AGILE Robots is a Germany/China maker of Diana and Thor arms, iw.hub AMRs (850+ at BMW), and the Agile ONE humanoid, with 20,000+ robotic systems installed (doubled in H2-25) and 2025 revenue of ~$339M (Sacra estimate), guiding $690M for 2026 (+104%). It has absorbed Franka Emika, idealworks, and audEERING, and is in discussion for a ~$800M round (SoftBank expected at $300M+), with profitability targeted 2028-29. It combines arms, AMRs, and a humanoid on an acquisition-fueled scale-up.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":28,"score":74,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"The company develops Agile ONE, an industrial humanoid robot designed for industrial settings and planned for production in Bavaria.","segment":"Industrial & logistics","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":70,"facts_total":52},{"name":"Humanoid","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/humanoid","city":"London","country":"United Kingdom","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Humanoid (legal entity SKL Robotics Ltd.), founded 2024 in London by serial entrepreneur Artem Sokolov, builds industrial humanoid robots — its flagship HMND 01, a dual-armed wheeled mobile manipulator running its proprietary KinetIQ AI platform. It unveiled the HMND 01 Alpha prototype on Sep-18-25 (developed in ~7 months) and raised a $152M Series A on Jul-21-26 at a $1.35B post-money valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid unicorn. Key open question: it has strong pre-orders and OEM partners (Bosch, Schaeffler) but had not yet shipped commercial units as of mid-2026, with Beta rollout targeted for Q4 2026.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":48,"score":65,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":8,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":6,"commercial":5,"deployment":7,"production":4,"technology":6},"why":"Humanoid develops and sells the HMND 01 family of wheeled and bipedal humanoid robots for industrial, logistics, and manufacturing deployments.","segment":"Industrial & logistics","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":184,"facts_total":88}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}