Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Engineered Arts ranks 43 with 65. Engineered Arts is ahead on leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and firepower. Level on positioning. Engineered Arts is based in Falmouth, United Kingdom, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Engineered Arts is named in 2 signals and Figure in 475.
Engineered Arts builds and deploys general-purpose humanoid robots, including Ameca and Azi Desktop, with actuated movement, cameras, radar, spatial audio, connectivity and interaction software.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Engineered Arts is a privately controlled UK humanoid-robotics company focused on expressive social humanoids for museums, education, research, hospitality, events and entertainment, with Ameca, Mesmer and Azi as principal platforms. The company remained active through Sep-26, launching third-generation Azi Desktop in Jun-26, publishing Ameca Gen 2.6 support materials in Aug-26, exhibiting Ameca with DDN, NVIDIA and Supermicro at NVIDIA GTC 2026, and reporting 250+ robots across 200+ installations in 30+ countries. Its differentiating position is expressive human-robot interaction and an established deployment base, while limited disclosed capital, leadership turnover and the absence of public revenue or production-rate data keep it below the promotion bar.
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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; Engineered Arts ranks 43 with 65. Engineered Arts is ahead on leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and firepower. Level on positioning. Engineered Arts is based in Falmouth, United Kingdom, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Engineered Arts is named in 2 signals and Figure in 475.
Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Engineered Arts ranks 43 with 65. Engineered Arts is ahead on leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology and firepower. Level on positioning. Engineered Arts is based in Falmouth, United Kingdom, Figure in San Jose, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Engineered Arts is named in 2 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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