{"title":"Figure vs MagicLab: General-purpose compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/figure-vs-magiclab","comparison":"Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; MagicLab ranks 85 with 53. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, MagicLab in China. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Figure is named in 475 signals and MagicLab in 13.","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":"MagicLab","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/magiclab","city":null,"country":"China","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"MagicLab (Magic Atom Robotics Technology (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.; 魔法原子), founded Dec-23 and based in Wuxi, Jiangsu, is a Chinese embodied-AI company building full-stack general-purpose humanoid (MagicBot Gen1/Z1/X1) and quadruped (MagicDog) robots with a claimed >90% in-house hardware rate covering actuators, dexterous hands and reducers. It has deployed multi-robot collaborative humanoids in factory settings (Dec-24), served as intelligent-robot partner to the 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and hosted a Silicon Valley summit (Apr-26) unveiling its Magic-Mix world model, H01 hand and MagicBot X1. Open question: revenue is undisclosed and the $14B-by-2036 and '60% international sales' figures are company-sourced projections/claims that could not be independently verified.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":85,"score":53,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":4,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":4,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":6,"technology":6},"why":"MagicLab develops and sells general-purpose humanoid robots including MagicBot Z1, MagicBot X1, GEN1, and Xiaomai, with factory deployments for inspection, material handling, picking, and multi-robot collaboration.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":13,"facts_total":41}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}