Critical Point ranks 7 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 87; Sharpa ranks 11 with 84. Critical Point is ahead on deployment and firepower. Sharpa is ahead on leverage. Level on production, commercials, progress, technology and positioning. Critical Point is based in Shanghai, China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. Critical Point is named in 30 signals and Sharpa in 85.
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.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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
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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.
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Critical Point ranks 7 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 87; Sharpa ranks 11 with 84. Critical Point is ahead on deployment and firepower. Sharpa is ahead on leverage. Level on production, commercials, progress, technology and positioning. Critical Point is based in Shanghai, China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. Critical Point is named in 30 signals and Sharpa in 85.
Critical Point ranks 7 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 87; Sharpa ranks 11 with 84. Critical Point is ahead on deployment and firepower. Sharpa is ahead on leverage. Level on production, commercials, progress, technology and positioning. Critical Point is based in Shanghai, China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. Critical Point is named in 30 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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