{"title":"Exotec vs Unitree: Mobile robots & AMRs compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/exotec-vs-unitree","comparison":"Unitree ranks 25 on the Robotics 100 with a score of 87; Exotec ranks 98 with 77. Unitree is ahead on deployment, production, progress, positioning and firepower. Level on commercials, technology and leverage. Exotec is based in Croix, France, Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Exotec: Established. Unitree: Public, founded 2016. Exotec is named in 10 signals and Unitree in 720.","companies":[{"name":"Exotec","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/exotec","city":"Croix","country":"France","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Exotec is a French warehouse-robotics maker whose Skypod system has 10,000+ robots across 200+ sites (>$1B cumulative sales by 2024), with a $400M Next-Gen Skypod pipeline across 20+ projects. It signed a DSV strategic partnership (June 2026), went live at Trusco Nakayama in Japan (August 2026), and runs a Decathlon multi-site EU program. Revenue is estimated at 100-500m a year.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":98,"score":77,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":8,"deployment":8,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"Exotec sells the Skypod robotic warehouse system, including autonomous mobile robots, to industrial and e-commerce warehouse operators.","segment":"Mobile robots & AMRs","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":10,"facts_total":7},{"name":"Unitree","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/unitree","city":"Hangzhou","country":"China","stage":"Public","founded":2016,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Unitree is the Chinese humanoid and quadruped leader (Shanghai STAR Market IPO in August 2026, ~$905M raised at ~$9B, closing up ~460-542% day one) that shipped 5,500 humanoids in 2025 (world #1 per its prospectus) with FY25 revenue of RMB 1.71B (~$250M, +335%) at ~60% gross margin, humanoids now 51.5% of core revenue. Its H2 full-size humanoid ships at $29,900 (the cheapest on the market) and its G1 at $13,500, with a $100K NVIDIA GR00T reference platform due late 2026, targeting ~20,000 humanoid shipments in 2026. A critical mix flag: >70% of 2025 humanoid sales were research and educational buyers, with industrial deployments under 10% of revenue, so its shipment count and its useful-work count are very different things.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Robotics","list":"Robotics 100","rank":25,"score":87,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":8,"position":9,"progress":9,"firepower":9,"commercial":8,"deployment":9,"production":9,"technology":8},"why":"Unitree is a robotics OEM that builds and sells autonomous humanoid robot systems, with demonstrated capabilities including motion transfer, manipulation, autonomous sparring, and real-time control.","segment":"Mobile robots & AMRs","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":720,"facts_total":232}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}