{"title":"Figure vs Rainbow Robotics: General-purpose compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/figure-vs-rainbow-robotics","comparison":"Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; Rainbow Robotics ranks 18 with 79. Figure is ahead on deployment, production and technology. Rainbow Robotics is ahead on progress and leverage. Level on commercials, positioning and firepower. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, Rainbow Robotics in Daejeon, South Korea. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Rainbow Robotics: Established. Figure is named in 475 signals and Rainbow Robotics in 26.","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":"Rainbow Robotics","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/rainbow-robotics","city":"Daejeon","country":"South Korea","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Rainbow Robotics is a South Korean maker (KAIST HUBO lineage) of RB cobots, AMRs, the RB-Y1 wheeled dual-arm mobile manipulator, and humanoids, now consolidated by Samsung after it raised its stake to 35% (~$181.6M, December 2024) to become the largest shareholder. H1-26 revenue was ~KRW 21.3B (~$15M, +105% YoY), with mobile-humanoid products becoming the biggest revenue source (40.5% of sales) and a Coupang warehouse robot pilot underway, though it remains loss-making (a KRW 2.03B Q2 operating loss). Samsung's Future Robotics Office advises alongside co-founder Jun-Ho Oh.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":18,"score":79,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":6,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Rainbow Robotics markets mobile humanoid robots as part of its lineup, supported by modular hardware, in-house components and software for robotics customers.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":26,"facts_total":25}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}