Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; BrainCo ranks 45 with 65. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. BrainCo is based in Hangzhou, China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. BrainCo: private. Sharpa: private. BrainCo is named in 9 signals and Sharpa in 85.
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.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
9 signals name BrainCo.
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Sharpa sells North, a general-purpose humanoid robot, to enterprise operators for autonomous service and dexterous manipulation.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Sharpa (Singapore HQ, Shanghai manufacturing) is a self-described unicorn (founded 2024) making the SharpaWave dexterous hand (22 active DoF, >1,000 tactile pixels per fingertip, ~$50,000 per hand) in mass production since October 2025, plus the North full-body robot shown at CES 2026. Its reference-design win is decisive: NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid (Computex 2026) is built on a Unitree H2 chassis with Sharpa Wave hands, the first dexterous reference design on the GR00T platform, with lab partners including NVIDIA, Google, MIT, and Stanford. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m (early orders from global technology firms).
85 signals name Sharpa.
78 facts on file.
Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; BrainCo ranks 45 with 65. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. BrainCo is based in Hangzhou, China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. BrainCo: private. Sharpa: private. BrainCo is named in 9 signals and Sharpa in 85.
Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; BrainCo ranks 45 with 65. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. BrainCo is based in Hangzhou, China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. BrainCo: private. Sharpa: private. BrainCo is named in 9 signals and Sharpa in 85. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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