Unitree ranks 2 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 89; Fauna Robotics ranks 49 with 65. Fauna Robotics is ahead on firepower and leverage. Unitree is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and positioning. Level on progress. Fauna Robotics is based in United States, Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Fauna Robotics: Subsidiary. Unitree: Public, founded 2016. Fauna Robotics is named in 49 signals and Unitree in 720.
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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Unitree designs, manufactures, and sells general-purpose bipedal humanoid robots including the G1, G1+, H1, and R1. It has reported mass production of approximately 18,000 bipedal humanoids.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
720 signals name Unitree.
232 facts on file.
Unitree ranks 2 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 89; Fauna Robotics ranks 49 with 65. Fauna Robotics is ahead on firepower and leverage. Unitree is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and positioning. Level on progress. Fauna Robotics is based in United States, Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Fauna Robotics: Subsidiary. Unitree: Public, founded 2016. Fauna Robotics is named in 49 signals and Unitree in 720.
Unitree ranks 2 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 89; Fauna Robotics ranks 49 with 65. Fauna Robotics is ahead on firepower and leverage. Unitree is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and positioning. Level on progress. Fauna Robotics is based in United States, Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Fauna Robotics: Subsidiary. Unitree: Public, founded 2016. Fauna Robotics is named in 49 signals and Unitree in 720. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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