Figure vs VinDynamics: General-purpose compared

November 2026 edition · assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence

Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; VinDynamics ranks 90 with 53. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning and firepower. Level on leverage. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, VinDynamics in Hanoi, Vietnam. Figure: Private, founded 2022. VinDynamics: subsidiary. Figure is named in 475 signals and VinDynamics in 7.

Figure →

San Jose, California, United States · Humanoids · Systems / General-purpose · Private · founded 2022 · www.figure.ai

Figure develops and manufactures general-purpose humanoid robots, including Figure 03, for industrial, logistics, and home applications.

Humanoids 100 · rank 5 · score 88Robotics · watchlist · score 72AI Core · discarded · score 69

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment10
Production8
Commercials6
Progress9
Technology10
Positioning8
Firepower10
Leverage6

Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.

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.

Latest signals

  • Tesla, Figure, and Apptronik are preparing new humanoid robots without announcing reveal dates.Humanoids Daily
  • Figure disclosed 37.5 million human-video uploads for its AI development.Humanoids Daily
  • Figure reached design lock for its next humanoid hardware iteration.Humanoids Daily

475 signals name Figure.

Facts, with sources

  • Figure released the Helix 2.5 model for home robotics.rsshub.bkraju.com — 2026-09-18
  • Helix 2.5 model for home roboticsrsshub.bkraju.com — 2026-09-18
  • Figure launched Helix 2.5 for home robotics, achieving 56% full-task success across 30 unfamiliar homes.interestingengineering.com — 2026-09-17

457 facts on file.

VinDynamics →

Hanoi, Vietnam · Humanoids · Systems / General-purpose · subsidiary · vindynamics.net

VinDynamics builds Dyno, its first humanoid robot, with dexterous manipulation, environmental sensing, multilingual communication and flexible responses for real-world use.

Humanoids 100 · rank 90 · score 53AI Core · prospect · score 38Robotics · prospect · score 38

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment4
Production2
Commercials2
Progress8
Technology6
Positioning4
Firepower8
Leverage6

Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.

Positioning

VinDynamics is a distinct company, not a VinMotion alias and not a re-merge candidate. Founded September 2025, chaired by La Manh Hung, it unveiled its own first humanoid, Dyno, on 2026-06-01 at ICRA 2026 in Vienna and Computex Taipei 2026, the same days and venues where VinRobotics showed the VR-H3. Trade coverage that week framed them as two separate humanoid programmes from the same group on parallel tracks, one industrial and one service. The product split is genuine: Dyno is a service humanoid optimised for security and surveillance across urban areas, campuses and integrated service complexes, with a public-facing proof point rather than industrial. It was piloted at Vinpearl Safari Phu Quoc, one of Vietnam's largest semi-wildlife parks, as a robotic guide in a demanding outdoor environment with multilingual narration. VinDynamics claims its own stack: a specialised actuator system, a robotic hand it describes as having internationally benchmarked dexterity, and an AI training dataset optimised for real-world scenarios. Vingroup now runs three separate humanoid companies, VinRobotics, VinMotion and VinDynamics, and the registry carries all three with the overlap noted. Confidence is verified on the separation, verified_light on everything else: no funding, headcount, revenue, unit count or Dyno specifications are published.

Latest signals

  • VinRobotics and VinDynamics publicly displayed humanoid robots at two 2026 technology conferences.humanoid.guide
  • VinDynamics presented Dyno’s specialized actuators, dexterous robotic hand, and real-world AI training dataset.humanoid.guide
  • VinDynamics introduced Dyno as a humanoid platform for security, public service, and household assistance.humanoid.guide

7 signals name VinDynamics.

Facts, with sources

  • Strategic memorandum of understanding with Skild AI covering embodied AI research, robot manipulation, sim-to-real transfer, edge AI deployment, and real-world validation of humanoid systems.vingroup.net
  • pre-revenuetechnode.global and humanoid.guide
  • Dyno, VinDynamics' first humanoid robot, unveiled at ICRA 2026 and Computex Taipeivingroup.net and pulse2.com

26 facts on file.

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Figure or VinDynamics: which is ahead in humanoids?

Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; VinDynamics ranks 90 with 53. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning and firepower. Level on leverage. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, VinDynamics in Hanoi, Vietnam. Figure: Private, founded 2022. VinDynamics: subsidiary. Figure is named in 475 signals and VinDynamics in 7.

How do Figure and VinDynamics compare?

Figure ranks 5 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 88; VinDynamics ranks 90 with 53. Figure is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning and firepower. Level on leverage. Figure is based in San Jose, United States, VinDynamics in Hanoi, Vietnam. Figure: Private, founded 2022. VinDynamics: subsidiary. Figure is named in 475 signals and VinDynamics in 7. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.

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