Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; DexForce ranks 9 with 85. DexForce is ahead on commercials, progress and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production and technology. Level on positioning and firepower. DexForce is based in China, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. DexForce is named in 26 signals and Figure in 475.
DexForce develops and sells humanoid robots, including the 40-degree-of-freedom W1 Pro, and has shipped thousands of robots for real-world deployments in tourism, cultural venues, retail and service settings.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
DexForce, also known as Kuawei or 跨维智能, is a China-based physical-AI company supplying embodied-intelligence software, 3D perception, simulation/data infrastructure and its own W1 Pro general-purpose humanoid platform. It reported more than 1,000 deployed projects across over 30 cities, a July-2025 A1/A2 financing of several hundred million RMB, a June-2026 RMB 1 billion Series B at a valuation above RMB 10 billion, and W1 Pro production and first delivery through Lenovo's manufacturing network in October-December 2025. Its distinguishing position is a vertically integrated data-to-model-to-robot stack; the open question is how much of reported commercial deployment is autonomous operation versus company-supported or teleoperated delivery.
26 signals name DexForce.
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Figure develops and manufactures general-purpose humanoid robots, including Figure 03, for industrial, logistics, and home applications.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
475 signals name Figure.
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Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; DexForce ranks 9 with 85. DexForce is ahead on commercials, progress and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production and technology. Level on positioning and firepower. DexForce is based in China, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. DexForce is named in 26 signals and Figure in 475.
Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; DexForce ranks 9 with 85. DexForce is ahead on commercials, progress and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production and technology. Level on positioning and firepower. DexForce is based in China, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. DexForce is named in 26 signals and Figure in 475. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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