{"title":"Agility Robotics vs Persona AI: Industrial & logistics compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/agility-robotics-vs-persona-ai","comparison":"Agility Robotics ranks 12 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; Persona AI ranks 81 with 55. 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, Persona AI in Houston, United States. Agility Robotics: Private. Agility Robotics is named in 305 signals and Persona AI in 46.","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":"Persona AI","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/persona-ai","city":"Houston","country":"United States","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Persona AI is a Houston-based humanoid robotics company founded in 2024 by NASA Robonaut technical lead Nic Radford. It is developing rugged, heat-resistant humanoids for shipyards and heavy industry, including welding, grinding, and structural assembly, with an explicit defense channel; its ecosystem reach includes strategic joint development and shipyard validation work with HD Hyundai.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":81,"score":55,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":4,"commercial":2,"deployment":7,"production":2,"technology":4},"why":"Persona AI develops industrial humanoid robots for tasks such as shipyard welding, sorting and assembly; its Gen 1 robot is planned for HD Hyundai shipyards.","segment":"Industrial & logistics","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":46,"facts_total":34}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}