Hyundai Mobis ranks 26 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 75; Zhaowei ranks 75 with 56. Hyundai Mobis is ahead on production, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on deployment and commercials. Hyundai Mobis is based in Seoul, South Korea, Zhaowei in Shenzhen, China. Hyundai Mobis: Public, founded 1977. Zhaowei: Established. Hyundai Mobis is named in 8 signals and Zhaowei in 1.
Hyundai Mobis is supplying actuators for Boston Dynamics’ next-generation Atlas humanoid and has launched new actuators specifically for robot applications.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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.
8 signals name Hyundai Mobis.
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Zhaowei has commercialized ZWHAND dexterous-hand motor/actuator modules, directly supplying actuation components for humanoid manipulation systems.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Zhaowei is a Chinese maker of precision gearboxes and micro-drives (SZSE:003021) named in supply-chain trackers as supplying Optimus joints, on an established micro-drive business in consumer electronics and auto. Its Optimus link is verified-light (company confirmation absent, the same skepticism as other tracker-derived names). The current revenue marker is dated (100-500m class).
1 signals name Zhaowei.
16 facts on file.
Hyundai Mobis ranks 26 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 75; Zhaowei ranks 75 with 56. Hyundai Mobis is ahead on production, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on deployment and commercials. Hyundai Mobis is based in Seoul, South Korea, Zhaowei in Shenzhen, China. Hyundai Mobis: Public, founded 1977. Zhaowei: Established. Hyundai Mobis is named in 8 signals and Zhaowei in 1.
Hyundai Mobis ranks 26 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 75; Zhaowei ranks 75 with 56. Hyundai Mobis is ahead on production, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on deployment and commercials. Hyundai Mobis is based in Seoul, South Korea, Zhaowei in Shenzhen, China. Hyundai Mobis: Public, founded 1977. Zhaowei: Established. Hyundai Mobis is named in 8 signals and Zhaowei in 1. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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