{"title":"Agility Robotics vs UBTech Robotics: Industrial & logistics compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/agility-robotics-vs-ubtech-robotics","comparison":"Agility Robotics ranks 12 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; UBTech Robotics ranks 17 with 80. Agility Robotics is ahead on deployment, commercials and technology. UBTech Robotics is ahead on production and firepower. Level on progress, positioning and leverage. Agility Robotics is based in Salem, United States, UBTech Robotics in Shenzhen, China. Agility Robotics: Private. UBTech Robotics: Public, founded 2012. Agility Robotics is named in 305 signals and UBTech Robotics in 299.","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":"UBTech Robotics","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/ubtech-robotics","city":"Shenzhen","country":"China","stage":"Public","founded":2012,"last_round":null,"positioning":"UBTech Robotics is a Chinese humanoid maker (HKEX:9880) that sold 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 (the first company globally over 1,000 a year in the class, >80% into industrial scenarios), with FY25 revenue of RMB 2.001B (~$291M, +53.3%) and a humanoid segment now 41.1% of revenue at 54.6% gross margin, narrowing its net loss to RMB 790M. Customers include Foxconn, BYD, Geely, and Airbus, and Walker S capacity exceeded 6,000 a year by end-2025. Two caveats: its two largest tenders are government-linked data-collection centers rather than factory lines, and UBTech itself described Walker S2 as no more than half as efficient as a human worker at the start of 2026.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":17,"score":80,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":9,"commercial":8,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":6},"why":"UBTech sells Walker S and Walker C1 humanoid robots for industrial automation and logistics customers.","segment":"Industrial & logistics","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":299,"facts_total":283}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}