{"title":"BrainCo vs LinkerBot: Manipulation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/brainco-vs-linkerbot","comparison":"LinkerBot ranks 19 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 78; BrainCo ranks 45 with 65. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress and positioning. Level on technology, firepower and leverage. BrainCo is based in Hangzhou, China, LinkerBot in Beijing, China. BrainCo: private. BrainCo is named in 9 signals and LinkerBot in 34.","companies":[{"name":"BrainCo","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/brainco","city":"Hangzhou","country":"China","stage":"private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"BrainCo is a Harvard-incubated maker (Hangzhou and Boston) of brain-computer-interface-controlled prosthetic hands (with FDA-cleared lineage and real consumer and medical revenue) and tactile-enabled robot hands shown at ICRA 2026. Its BCI angle differentiates it, using human-signal control as a training-data channel, and July 2026 coverage named it among China's four dexterous-hand unicorns (with LinkerBot, PaXini, AGILINK). Funding, unit volumes, and humanoid OEM relationships are undisclosed.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":45,"score":65,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"BrainCo's RoboGesture software generates humanoid gestures directly in 41-DoF robot space at 120 FPS and has been demonstrated on a Unitree G1 humanoid.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":9,"facts_total":18},{"name":"LinkerBot","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/linkerbot","city":"Beijing","country":"China","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"LinkerBot is a Chinese maker of high-degree-of-freedom robotic hands, the only one mass-producing more than 1,000 high-DoF hands a month (capacity over 4,000/month across four factories) and claiming over 80% of global high-DoF hand volume; it shipped its 10,000th hand in December 2025 and targets 50,000-100,000 units in 2026. Customers include Samsung and Siemens plus research at Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, and Tsinghua, and it raised across four rounds in eight months (Series B ~$200M in February 2026, Series B+ at a $3B valuation in late April 2026, and a reported $6B round being sought). Revenue and the company-disclosed market-share figure are unverified, and the founding year is disputed (2019 vs 2023).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":19,"score":78,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":6,"commercial":6,"deployment":8,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"LinkerBot (灵心巧手) develops and sells dexterous robotic hands and related manipulation hardware for embodied-intelligence and humanoid-robot applications.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":34,"facts_total":9}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}