{"title":"Agility Robotics vs Humanoid: Industrial & logistics compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/agility-robotics-vs-humanoid","comparison":"Agility Robotics ranks 12 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; Humanoid ranks 48 with 65. Agility Robotics is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology, positioning and firepower. Level on progress and leverage. Agility Robotics is based in Salem, United States, Humanoid in London, United Kingdom. Agility Robotics: Private. Agility Robotics is named in 305 signals and Humanoid in 184.","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":"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."}