{"title":"Hyundai Mobis vs NSK: Actuation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/hyundai-mobis-vs-nsk","comparison":"NSK ranks 14 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 83; Hyundai Mobis ranks 26 with 75. NSK is ahead on deployment, commercials and progress. Level on production, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Hyundai Mobis is based in Seoul, South Korea, NSK in Tokyo, Japan. Hyundai Mobis: Public, founded 1977. NSK: Established. Hyundai Mobis is named in 8 signals and NSK in 17.","companies":[{"name":"Hyundai Mobis","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/hyundai-mobis","city":"Seoul","country":"South Korea","stage":"Public","founded":1977,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Hyundai Mobis is a KRX-listed Hyundai-group automotive tier-1 entering humanoid actuation, having agreed at CES 2026 to supply actuators for Boston Dynamics' next-generation Atlas, its first robotics customer. It is the Korean answer to Schaeffler, leveraging its automotive actuator design and mass-production base to supply the joints for Hyundai Motor Group's plan to deploy tens of thousands of robots (part of a $26B US investment); by its own framing, actuators are more than 60% of humanoid material cost. Robotics revenue is not broken out.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":26,"score":75,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":8,"firepower":10,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"Hyundai Mobis is supplying actuators for Boston Dynamics’ next-generation Atlas humanoid and has launched new actuators specifically for robot applications.","segment":"Actuation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":8,"facts_total":17},{"name":"NSK","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/nsk","city":"Tokyo","country":"Japan","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"NSK is a Japanese bearing and actuation maker (TSE:6471) that established a Robotics Business Division in March 2026 and announced miniaturized rotary and linear actuators for humanoids, plus a February 2026 design win supplying a third-generation smart joint bearing module (with integrated torque and temperature sensing) to a leading North American humanoid robot company. Its agreed merger with NTN will create the world's largest bearing maker (~$11.1B combined revenue, closing 2027), with both companies naming physical-AI robots as the priority battleground, and it signed a Delta Electronics MOU (May 2026) for joint actuator modules. With more than 70 bearings per humanoid, this is a components-scale play against JTEKT, SKF, and IKO.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":14,"score":83,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":6,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"NSK is contributing its precision-parts technology to the joint development and testing of humanoid robot components with Atom, including components relevant to robotic motion and actuation.","segment":"Actuation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":17,"facts_total":14}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}