{"title":"BrainCo vs Tesollo: Manipulation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/brainco-vs-tesollo","comparison":"Tesollo ranks 40 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 66; BrainCo ranks 45 with 65. Tesollo is ahead on progress. Level on deployment, production, commercials, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. BrainCo is based in Hangzhou, China, Tesollo in South Korea. BrainCo: private. BrainCo is named in 9 signals and Tesollo in 21.","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":"Tesollo","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/tesollo","city":null,"country":"South Korea","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Tesollo is a South Korean maker of dexterous robotic hands (the 20-DoF DG-5F-M flagship and the lower-cost DG-5F-S with in-house actuators), on a gripper revenue base since 2019. It initiated an IPO process in July 2026, which would be the first pure-play hands listing, and integrated XELA uSkin tactile sensing shown at CES 2026, with demos at ICRA 2026. Revenue, the IPO venue and timing, and humanoid OEM design wins are open; its own coverage notes no hand maker is near a certified 10,000-hour mean-time-between-repairs.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":40,"score":66,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":9,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Tesollo develops humanoid and robotic hands used as manipulation components, including a humanoid robot hand demonstrated at the 2025 World IT Show.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":21,"facts_total":19}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}