{"title":"Figure vs VinDynamics: General-purpose compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/figure-vs-vindynamics","comparison":"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.","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":"VinDynamics","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/vindynamics","city":"Hanoi","country":"Vietnam","stage":"subsidiary","founded":null,"last_round":null,"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":90,"score":53,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":4,"progress":8,"firepower":8,"commercial":2,"deployment":4,"production":2,"technology":6},"why":"VinDynamics builds Dyno, its first humanoid robot, with dexterous manipulation, environmental sensing, multilingual communication and flexible responses for real-world use.","segment":"General-purpose","layer":"Systems"},"signals_total":7,"facts_total":26}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}