Unitree ranks 2 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 89; Figure ranks 5 with 88. Figure is ahead on deployment, technology and firepower. Unitree is ahead on production, commercials, progress and positioning. Level on leverage. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Unitree: Public, founded 2016. Figure is named in 475 signals and Unitree in 720.
Figure develops and manufactures general-purpose humanoid robots, including Figure 03, for industrial, logistics, and home applications.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
475 signals name Figure.
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Unitree designs, manufactures, and sells general-purpose bipedal humanoid robots including the G1, G1+, H1, and R1. It has reported mass production of approximately 18,000 bipedal humanoids.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Unitree is the Chinese humanoid and quadruped leader (Shanghai STAR Market IPO in August 2026, ~$905M raised at ~$9B, closing up ~460-542% day one) that shipped 5,500 humanoids in 2025 (world #1 per its prospectus) with FY25 revenue of RMB 1.71B (~$250M, +335%) at ~60% gross margin, humanoids now 51.5% of core revenue. Its H2 full-size humanoid ships at $29,900 (the cheapest on the market) and its G1 at $13,500, with a $100K NVIDIA GR00T reference platform due late 2026, targeting ~20,000 humanoid shipments in 2026. A critical mix flag: >70% of 2025 humanoid sales were research and educational buyers, with industrial deployments under 10% of revenue, so its shipment count and its useful-work count are very different things.
720 signals name Unitree.
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Unitree ranks 2 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 89; Figure ranks 5 with 88. Figure is ahead on deployment, technology and firepower. Unitree is ahead on production, commercials, progress and positioning. Level on leverage. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Unitree: Public, founded 2016. Figure is named in 475 signals and Unitree in 720.
Unitree ranks 2 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 89; Figure ranks 5 with 88. Figure is ahead on deployment, technology and firepower. Unitree is ahead on production, commercials, progress and positioning. Level on leverage. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Figure: Private, founded 2022. Unitree: Public, founded 2016. Figure is named in 475 signals and Unitree in 720. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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