{"title":"Agility Robotics vs Apptronik: Industrial & logistics compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/agility-robotics-vs-apptronik","comparison":"Agility Robotics ranks 12 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; Apptronik ranks 20 with 77. Agility Robotics is ahead on deployment and commercials. Apptronik is ahead on firepower. Level on production, progress, technology, positioning and leverage. Agility Robotics is based in Salem, United States, Apptronik in Austin, United States. Agility Robotics: Private. Apptronik: Private, founded 2016. Agility Robotics is named in 305 signals and Apptronik in 166.","companies":[{"name":"Agility Robotics","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/agility-robotics","city":"Salem","country":"United States","stage":"Private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Agility Robotics is a US humanoid maker whose Digit robot has ~100 units deployed and 65,000+ operating hours across nine commercial facilities (the deepest verified commercial hour count in the industry), including a 7-unit Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada deployment and 100,000+ totes moved at GXO. It announced a SPAC merger with Churchill Capital XI (June 2026, $2.5B pre-money, close expected end-2026), which would make it the first Western pure-play humanoid to go public, with customers including Schaeffler, GXO, and Mercado Libre and Amazon as an investor and pilot site. It is pre-revenue at disclosure level, with $300M+ in milestone-gated multi-year Digit v5 bookings on a RaaS model.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":12,"score":84,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":10,"deployment":10,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Agility Robotics develops and sells Digit humanoid robots for warehouse and industrial work such as packing, stacking and sorting, deployed at customer sites.","segment":"Industrial & logistics","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":305,"facts_total":315},{"name":"Apptronik","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/apptronik","city":"Austin","country":"United States","stage":"Private","founded":2016,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Apptronik is a US humanoid maker whose Apollo robot is produced by Jabil on an automotive-grade path, with a new-generation robot debut announced for 2026 and a Google DeepMind partnership putting Gemini Robotics on Apollo. It closed $935M+ in Series A funding (a $403M round in March 2025 and a $520M Series A-X in February 2026; ~$5B secondary valuation) with Mercedes-Benz taking an equity stake and a multi-plant deployment (described as the second most significant automotive humanoid deployment after BMW/Figure) plus a GXO partnership. It is effectively pre-revenue at disclosure level (pilot-only, quote-based).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":20,"score":77,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":5,"deployment":5,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Apptronik develops and sells Apollo humanoid robots for material handling and repetitive workflows across manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, and retail.","segment":"Industrial & logistics","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":166,"facts_total":147}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}