Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Boston Dynamics ranks 6 with 87. Boston Dynamics is ahead on positioning and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production and commercials. Level on progress, technology and firepower. Boston Dynamics is based in Waltham, United States, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Boston Dynamics is named in 325 signals and Figure in 475.
Boston Dynamics is developing Atlas as a general-purpose humanoid for industrial deployment, including automotive production lines and Hyundai manufacturing facilities.
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Boston Dynamics (Hyundai-owned) makes Spot (1,500+ across 40+ countries) and Stretch (at DHL, Maersk, H&M, and others), with about $130M in 2025 revenue across the two, and began Atlas humanoid production in January 2026. All of 2026 Atlas production is committed to just two customers, Hyundai RMAC and Google DeepMind (third-party pilots from 2027), and Hyundai Mobis will supply next-gen Atlas actuators as part of a Hyundai group plan to deploy tens of thousands of robots. Hyundai became sole owner in July 2026 ($325M for SoftBank's 9.65%, ~$3.3B implied), and CEO Robert Playter retired in February 2026, leaving a leadership gap analysts have flagged.
325 signals name Boston Dynamics.
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Figure develops and manufactures general-purpose humanoid robots, including Figure 03, for industrial, logistics, and home applications.
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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.
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Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Boston Dynamics ranks 6 with 87. Boston Dynamics is ahead on positioning and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production and commercials. Level on progress, technology and firepower. Boston Dynamics is based in Waltham, United States, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Boston Dynamics is named in 325 signals and Figure in 475.
Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Boston Dynamics ranks 6 with 87. Boston Dynamics is ahead on positioning and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production and commercials. Level on progress, technology and firepower. Boston Dynamics is based in Waltham, United States, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Boston Dynamics is named in 325 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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