{"title":"CasiaHand vs LinkerBot: Manipulation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/casiahand-vs-linkerbot","comparison":"LinkerBot ranks 19 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 78; CasiaHand ranks 60 with 62. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress and positioning. Level on technology, firepower and leverage. CasiaHand is based in China, LinkerBot in Beijing, China. CasiaHand is named in 6 signals and LinkerBot in 34.","companies":[{"name":"CasiaHand","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/casiahand","city":null,"country":"China","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"CasiaHand is a Chinese dexterous-hand maker (from CASIA research lineage) selling a 15-DoF tendon-driven anthropomorphic hand with a published design and benchmark, scaling production via a Fulai New Materials partnership toward ~30,000 units a year by end-2026. It disclosed cumulative H1-2026 orders exceeding RMB 100M and showcased a full stack at WRC 2026. It combines a CAS-institute research pedigree with a tactile-manufacturing partner and a nine-figure order book.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":60,"score":62,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"CasiaHand develops and supplies Linker Hand dexterous hands using tendon-driven, linkage-driven and direct-drive architectures. These are manipulation components for humanoid and embodied-intelligence robots.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":6,"facts_total":32},{"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."}