{"title":"Agility Robotics vs Kepler Robotics: Industrial & logistics compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/agility-robotics-vs-kepler-robotics","comparison":"Agility Robotics ranks 12 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; Kepler Robotics ranks 83 with 54. Agility Robotics is ahead on deployment, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on production. Agility Robotics is based in Salem, United States, Kepler Robotics in Shanghai, China. Agility Robotics: Private. Kepler Robotics: private. Agility Robotics is named in 305 signals and Kepler Robotics in 4.","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":"Kepler Robotics","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/kepler-robotics","city":"Shanghai","country":"China","stage":"private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Kepler Robotics (Shanghai, founded 2023) makes the K2 \"Bumblebee\" general-purpose humanoid, which it claims is the world's first commercially available hybrid-architecture humanoid, with mass production and shipments begun in September 2025. It raised a Pre-A in April 2025 (Veichi, Keli Sensing as strategic investors) and a Series A in April 2026, positioned on low-cost manufacturing humanoids. Funding totals are unreliable (tracker conflict), and shipped volumes and customer names are undisclosed.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":83,"score":54,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":4,"position":6,"progress":7,"firepower":4,"commercial":4,"deployment":5,"production":6,"technology":6},"why":"Kepler Robotics develops and mass-produces the K2 “Bumblebee” humanoid robot for logistics tasks, with thousands of units entering delivery.","segment":"Industrial & logistics","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":4,"facts_total":19}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}