Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Galbot ranks 25 with 75. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and firepower. Galbot is ahead on progress and leverage. Level on positioning. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, Galbot in Beijing, China. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Figure is named in 475 signals and Galbot in 95.
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.
457 facts on file.
Galbot develops and sells bipedal humanoids including the ET1, while also developing general-purpose humanoid capabilities such as autonomous tennis, gesture generation, and dexterous manipulation.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Galbot (Beijing Galaxy General Robot Co. / 银河通用), founded May-23, is a Beijing-based embodied-AI company building full-stack humanoid/mobile-manipulator systems (flagship G1 wheeled dual-arm robot, unveiled Mar-25; industrial Galbot S1) governed by its self-developed 'Galaxy Brain/AstraBrain' foundation model trained mainly on simulated synthetic data. It is among China's most-funded embodied-AI players, raising through a Dec-25 round exceeding USD 300M (USD 3B valuation, USD 800M cumulative) and a Mar-26 round of ~RMB 2.5B lifting valuation above RMB 20B, with named industrial partners CATL and Bosch. The open question is commercial depth: it reportedly ships fewer than ~150 robots/year despite very high funding and valuation.
95 signals name Galbot.
81 facts on file.
Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Galbot ranks 25 with 75. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and firepower. Galbot is ahead on progress and leverage. Level on positioning. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, Galbot in Beijing, China. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Figure is named in 475 signals and Galbot in 95.
Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Galbot ranks 25 with 75. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology and firepower. Galbot is ahead on progress and leverage. Level on positioning. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, Galbot in Beijing, China. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Figure is named in 475 signals and Galbot in 95. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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