{"title":"Figure vs RobotEra: General-purpose compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/figure-vs-robotera","comparison":"Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; RobotEra ranks 21 with 76. Figure is ahead on deployment, technology, positioning and firepower. RobotEra is ahead on commercials, progress and leverage. Level on production. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, RobotEra in Beijing, China. Figure: Private, founded 2022. RobotEra: private. Figure is named in 475 signals and RobotEra in 35.","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":"RobotEra","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/robotera","city":"Beijing","country":"China","stage":"private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"RobotEra (Tsinghua lineage) is a Chinese humanoid maker whose thousand-unit deliveries began in Q2-2026 (growth >300%), built around the L7 biped and the 12-DoF XHAND1, with >95% of core hardware claimed in-house, deployed across 10+ logistics centers via China Post and SF Group for 24-hour parcel sorting. It raised a ~RMB 1B strategic round in March 2026 at a >RMB 10B valuation, then a $200M+ round in May 2026 led by its logistics customer SF Group (HSG, IDG, Hillhouse participating), with a Hong Kong IPO planned but not yet filed. Revenue is undisclosed (thousand-unit deliveries at mid-five-figure ASPs imply tens of millions; funding-total figures conflict).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":21,"score":76,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":8,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":8,"deployment":6,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"RobotEra develops and deploys full-size humanoid robots for logistics and industrial applications, including deployments across more than 10 logistics centers and with major customers such as SF Express and China Post.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":35,"facts_total":31}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}