{"title":"Figure vs PAL Robotics: General-purpose compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/figure-vs-pal-robotics","comparison":"Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; PAL Robotics ranks 79 with 55. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on progress. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, PAL Robotics in Barcelona, Spain. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Figure is named in 475 signals and PAL Robotics in 11.","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":"PAL Robotics","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/pal-robotics","city":"Barcelona","country":"Spain","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"PAL Robotics (Barcelona, founded 2004) is the longest-lived European humanoid maker, part of PAL Technology Group (Abu Dhabi), with TIAGo mobile manipulators in hundreds of operations, ~50+ research humanoids shipped (TALOS/REEM-C), and the commercially buyable ARI social humanoid (quote-based ~$35-90K). It has hospital deployments and showed an upgraded ARI at CES 2026, occupying a sustainable research and social/service niche rather than the industrial-humanoid race. Revenue is not disclosed (self-funded plus EU grants).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":79,"score":55,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":4,"position":6,"progress":9,"firepower":4,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":4,"technology":6},"why":"PAL Robotics develops humanoid and human-centered robotic platforms such as ARI and TIAGo, supporting autonomous social interaction, collaboration and advanced manipulation.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":11,"facts_total":31}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}