{"title":"Figure vs RoboParty: General-purpose compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/figure-vs-roboparty","comparison":"Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; RoboParty ranks 99 with 50. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, technology, positioning and firepower. Level on progress and leverage. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, RoboParty in Shanghai, China. Figure: Private, founded 2022. RoboParty: private. Figure is named in 475 signals and RoboParty in 23.","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":"RoboParty","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/roboparty","city":"Shanghai","country":"China","stage":"private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"RoboParty is a Chinese maker of what it calls the world's first full-stack open-source biped (the ROBOTO ORIGIN, January 2026; 1,000+ GitHub stars, ~100 devkit pre-orders). Its funding is conflicting across sources (a $10M round with MPCi/Xiaomi/Galbot versus a relayed Shunwei-led round).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":99,"score":50,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":6,"position":4,"progress":9,"firepower":4,"commercial":2,"deployment":4,"production":4,"technology":6},"why":"RoboParty develops and launched ROBOTO ORIGIN, a full-stack open-source biped humanoid robot intended as a general-purpose platform.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":23,"facts_total":15}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}