Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Astribot ranks 29 with 74. Astribot is ahead on progress and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and firepower. Level on positioning. Astribot is based in Shenzhen, China, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Astribot is named in 12 signals and Figure in 475.
Astribot develops and sells the T1 general-purpose humanoid robot, priced commercially at RMB 89,900. It has also announced large-scale industrial, manufacturing, warehousing and logistics deployment plans.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Astribot, also known as Stardust Intelligence, is a Shenzhen general-purpose embodied-AI robotics company founded in December 2022 that develops the rope-driven S1 platform, Lumo models, DuoCore control software and the T1 robot. It reported a September 2025 thousand-unit strategic order with SEER Robotics, publicized Q4-25 delivery commencement, and completed a June 2026 Series B exceeding RMB 1 billion at a valuation above RMB 10 billion; named ecosystem links include Ant Group, JD.com, ThunderSoft, SEER Robotics and Physical Intelligence. The principal open question is execution: public evidence confirms product sales, demonstrations and announced deployments, but does not independently verify completion of the full thousand-unit delivery program or disclosed domain revenue.
12 signals name Astribot.
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Figure develops and manufactures general-purpose humanoid robots, including Figure 03, for industrial, logistics, and home applications.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Figure is a US humanoid maker that delivered 350+ Figure 03 units from its BotQ line by April 2026 (throughput of one robot an hour, a stated path to 100,000 a year) and ran Figure 02 at BMW Spartanburg for ~11 months (90,000+ parts at >99% placement accuracy, described as the first independently verifiable large-scale automotive humanoid deployment). It raised $1B+ Series C in September 2025 at a $39B post-money (a 15x step-up in 19 months; NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Intel, LG among participants), launched Figure 03 in October 2025, and exited its OpenAI collaboration for in-house Helix models. The negative signal: BMW chose Hexagon Robotics' wheeled AEON for its first European humanoid pilot at Leipzig (February 2026), so Figure went from BMW's singular humanoid partner to one supplier among several, and secondary shares traded below the $39B round price by August 2026. It is effectively pre-revenue at scale against that valuation.
475 signals name Figure.
457 facts on file.
Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Astribot ranks 29 with 74. Astribot is ahead on progress and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and firepower. Level on positioning. Astribot is based in Shenzhen, China, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Astribot is named in 12 signals and Figure in 475.
Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Astribot ranks 29 with 74. Astribot is ahead on progress and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and firepower. Level on positioning. Astribot is based in Shenzhen, China, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Astribot is named in 12 signals and Figure in 475. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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