{"title":"Figure vs Genesis AI: General-purpose compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/figure-vs-genesis-ai","comparison":"Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Genesis AI ranks 72 with 58. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology, positioning and firepower. Level on progress and leverage. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, Genesis AI in Palo Alto, United States. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Genesis AI: Private, founded 2024. Figure is named in 475 signals and Genesis AI in 64.","companies":[{"name":"Figure","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/figure","city":"San Jose","country":"United States","stage":"Private","founded":2022,"last_round":null,"positioning":"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":5,"score":88,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":10,"commercial":6,"deployment":10,"production":8,"technology":10},"why":"Figure develops and manufactures general-purpose humanoid robots, including Figure 03, for industrial, logistics, and home applications.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":475,"facts_total":457},{"name":"Genesis AI","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/genesis-ai","city":"Palo Alto","country":"United States","stage":"Private","founded":2024,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Genesis AI is a private Paris–San Carlos full-stack robotics company developing the GENE robot foundation model, dexterous manipulation hardware and the Eno general-purpose robot. It raised a company-announced $105M seed in Jul-25, demonstrated GENE-26.5 manipulation tasks in May-26, unveiled Eno and announced a strategic deployment partnership with LG CNS on Jun-16-26, but no customer deployment or earned robotics revenue has been publicly verified as of Sep-15-26. Its distinguishing position is the combination of simulation, human-skill data capture, proprietary hands and a non-humanoid mobile robot; the open question is whether the announced end-2026 production and customer-deployment target will convert demonstrations into repeatable field operations.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":72,"score":58,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":9,"firepower":8,"commercial":3,"deployment":4,"production":2,"technology":6},"why":"Genesis AI markets Eno, a general-purpose robot, to enterprise customers for prospective deployments across operational settings.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":64,"facts_total":61}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}