Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Fauna Robotics ranks 49 with 65. Fauna Robotics is ahead on progress and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and positioning. Level on firepower. Fauna Robotics is based in United States, Figure in San Jose, United States. Fauna Robotics: Subsidiary. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Fauna Robotics is named in 49 signals and Figure in 475.
Fauna developed and launched Sprout, a lightweight, interactive, developer-ready humanoid platform for home, education, and R&D use.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Fauna took the opposite corner from the warehouse-humanoid crowd: a kid-sized, "approachable" home and education humanoid, Sprout, designed to be safe and likeable — it dances, picks up toys, and is built for households and schools rather than logistics. That consumer thesis is what Amazon bought in March 2026, folding Fauna into its devices/robotics effort and instantly making it a strategic piece of the only trillion-dollar company with a consumer-hardware channel, home-device install base and fulfillment robotics stack to distribute a home humanoid at scale. Pre-revenue at acquisition; the open question is whether Amazon ships Sprout as a product or absorbs the team.
49 signals name Fauna Robotics.
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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; Fauna Robotics ranks 49 with 65. Fauna Robotics is ahead on progress and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and positioning. Level on firepower. Fauna Robotics is based in United States, Figure in San Jose, United States. Fauna Robotics: Subsidiary. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Fauna Robotics is named in 49 signals and Figure in 475.
Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Fauna Robotics ranks 49 with 65. Fauna Robotics is ahead on progress and leverage. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and positioning. Level on firepower. Fauna Robotics is based in United States, Figure in San Jose, United States. Fauna Robotics: Subsidiary. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Fauna Robotics is named in 49 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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