Critical Point vs PSYONIC: Manipulation compared

November 2026 edition · assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence

Critical Point ranks 7 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 87; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. Critical Point is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Critical Point is based in Shanghai, China, PSYONIC in Champaign, United States. Critical Point is named in 30 signals and PSYONIC in 51.

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Shanghai, Shanghai, China · Humanoids · Components / Manipulation · agilink-ai.com

Critical Point develops and sells OmniHand dexterous robotic hands designed for humanoid platforms, including standard, Lite, and Ultra variants for manipulation and embodied-AI training.

Humanoids 100 · rank 7 · score 87Robotics · watchlist · score 49

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment9
Production8
Commercials6
Progress10
Technology10
Positioning8
Firepower8
Leverage8

Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.

Positioning

Critical Point (临界点) was established on 2026-01-14 as the spun-out dexterous hand business of Agibot (Zhiyuan Robotics), which holds 80 percent after contributing RMB 4 million at establishment. Within five months it had raised four rounds, crossed a USD 1 billion post-money valuation on 2026-06-24, delivered over 8,000 OmniHand units and over 10,000 grippers, ranked first in the Chinese dexterous hand market by shipments in Q1 2026, and turned operationally net profitable in Q1 2026, its first full quarter. Founder Xiong Kun graduated from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Robotics Institute, participated in the founding of Tencent Robotics X, worked at IDEA Research and Inovance, and joined Agibot in 2024 to lead the dexterous hand business. The flagship OmniHand 3 Ultra-M, launched at ICRA 2026 on 2026-06-02 as the fourth product in under five months, fits 20 active degrees of freedom into 189.5 by 88.5 by 40 millimetres at 630 grams using full direct drive, and the sensing is the differentiator: a miniature visuotactile sensor in each fingertip plus over 300 three-dimensional tactile sensing points across the palm, single-sensor force resolution around 0.005 N, spatial resolution around 0.04 millimetres and sensing density of 50,000 per square centimetre. The 8,000-unit installed base is what separates it from Yuansheng, also in this batch, which discloses none. The reservation is that most detail is company-sourced, no end customer is named, and the 80 p

Latest signals

  • AGILINK has delivered more than 15,000 dexterous robot hands.PR Newswire, all releases
  • AGILINK’s robot hand learned basic Suzhou embroidery techniques.PR Newswire, all releases
  • AGILINK’s robotic hand learned foundational Suzhou embroidery techniques.PR Newswire, all releases

30 signals name Critical Point.

Facts, with sources

  • OmniHand 3 Ultra M launched as AGILINK's flagship robotic hand for embodied AI training and manipulation researchinterestingengineering.com — 2026-09-15
  • OmniHand 3 Ultra launched as AGILINK's flagship robotic hand for embodied AI training and manipulation researchinterestingengineering.com — 2026-09-15
  • 0.35-kilogram OmniHand 3 Lite robotic hand for compact robotshumanoid.guide

42 facts on file.

PSYONIC →

Champaign, Illinois, United States · Humanoids · Components / Manipulation · psyonic.io

PSYONIC supplies multi-degree-of-freedom robotic hands and is developing integrations with humanoid and general-purpose robot platforms for manipulation.

Humanoids 100 · rank 57 · score 63Robotics · watchlist · score 54

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment6
Production6
Commercials4
Progress9
Technology8
Positioning6
Firepower4
Leverage6

Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.

Positioning

PSYONIC is a US maker of the Ability Hand, a prosthetic-validated bionic hand (Medicare-covered, drop-tested, with touch feedback) crossing into robotics with customers including NASA and Meta, shipping in production for years. It is named the leader in prosthetic-derived validation, the only hands player whose product passes daily human-life reliability testing. Revenue is estimated at <25m (a crowdfunding-heavy cap table).

Latest signals

  • Arm launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI with more than 80 ecosystem companies.Arm
  • RoboBusiness 2026 announced keynote programming on production AI, humanoids, and the next generation of robotics.The Robot Report
  • Advanced Humanoid Forum 2027 will bring Chinese robot makers together with European industrial and software organizations.humanoid.guide

51 signals name PSYONIC.

Facts, with sources

  • ABB Robotics GoFa collaborative robotPSYONIC
  • Collaboration with NVIDIA and ABB to use Ability Hand movement, contact, and grip-force data for robotic manipulation and physical AIPSYONIC
  • Ability Hand integrated directly into NVIDIA Isaac Lab open-source framework for robot learningPSYONIC

63 facts on file.

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Critical Point or PSYONIC: which is ahead in humanoids?

Critical Point ranks 7 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 87; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. Critical Point is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Critical Point is based in Shanghai, China, PSYONIC in Champaign, United States. Critical Point is named in 30 signals and PSYONIC in 51.

How do Critical Point and PSYONIC compare?

Critical Point ranks 7 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 87; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. Critical Point is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Critical Point is based in Shanghai, China, PSYONIC in Champaign, United States. Critical Point is named in 30 signals and PSYONIC in 51. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.

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