{"title":"Clone Robotics vs Figure: General-purpose compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/clone-robotics-vs-figure","comparison":"Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Clone Robotics ranks 87 with 53. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Clone Robotics is based in Mountain View, United States, Figure in San Jose, United States. Clone Robotics: private. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Clone Robotics is named in 24 signals and Figure in 475.","companies":[{"name":"Clone Robotics","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/clone-robotics","city":"Mountain View","country":"United States","stage":"private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Clone is the outlier of the humanoid field: instead of motors and gearboxes it builds musculoskeletal androids driven by water-hydraulic artificial muscles (\"Myofibers\") on a polymer skeleton — the Protoclone V1 has roughly 1,000 muscle fibers and 500 sensors and is the only faithful anatomical replica of the human body in the industry. The bet is that human-shaped compliance and hand dexterity, not payload, wins the home; it markets Clone Alpha as a consumer android on preorder. Commercially it is pre-deployment — no verified customer installations — so its value today is entirely technology option value on a genuinely unique actuation approach the rest of the field cannot copy quickly.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":87,"score":53,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":4,"position":4,"progress":8,"firepower":4,"commercial":3,"deployment":5,"production":4,"technology":8},"why":"Clone Robotics develops general-purpose anthropomorphic robots, including the Protoclone and Clone Alpha, with human-like articulation, synthetic organs, pneumatic or hydraulic actuation, and walking capability.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":24,"facts_total":16},{"name":"Figure","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/figure","city":"San Jose","country":"United States","stage":"Private","founded":2022,"last_round":null,"positioning":"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":5,"score":88,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":10,"commercial":6,"deployment":10,"production":8,"technology":10},"why":"Figure develops and manufactures general-purpose humanoid robots, including Figure 03, for industrial, logistics, and home applications.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":475,"facts_total":457}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}