{"title":"EngineAI vs Figure: General-purpose compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/engineai-vs-figure","comparison":"Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; EngineAI ranks 46 with 65. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology, positioning and firepower. Level on progress and leverage. EngineAI is based in Shenzhen, China, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. EngineAI is named in 91 signals and Figure in 475.","companies":[{"name":"EngineAI","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/engineai","city":"Shenzhen","country":"China","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"EngineAI is a Shenzhen humanoid maker (HongShan-backed) of compact full-size bipeds (the PM01 and SE01, 170cm, 32 DoF, known for viral front-flip gait demos) positioned as a sub-$10-12K price disruptor, with the SE01 launched in December 2024 at ~RMB 88,000. Henan state assets and Luxshare jointly invested at a ~RMB 10B valuation (April 2026, with Luxshare as industrial commercialization partner), and it filed for a Hong Kong IPO (August 2026), joining the Chinese humanoid listing wave. Its lineup now spans the SA02 companion, PM01, and full-size T800; revenue is undisclosed.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":46,"score":65,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":9,"firepower":8,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":6},"why":"EngineAI develops, markets, and sells full-size humanoid robots including the SE01, PM01, and T800. Its products are designed for dynamic movement, factory work, retail staffing, and other general-purpose applications.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":91,"facts_total":60},{"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."}