{"title":"Jabil vs Minth Group: Contract manufacturing compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/jabil-vs-minth-group","comparison":"Jabil ranks 34 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 69; Minth Group ranks 37 with 67. Jabil is ahead on production, technology and firepower. Minth Group is ahead on commercials and progress. Level on deployment, positioning and leverage. Jabil is based in St. Petersburg, United States, Minth Group in Jiaxing, China. Jabil: Established. Jabil is named in 12 signals and Minth Group in 12.","companies":[{"name":"Jabil","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/jabil","city":"St. Petersburg","country":"United States","stage":"Established","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Jabil is a US electronics manufacturing giant (NYSE:JBL, ~$34-35B revenue) and the named contract manufacturer for Apptronik's Apollo humanoid, operating 100+ facilities across 30+ countries. It committed a $500M factory-systems overhaul in 2025 (including an Arch Systems AI investment), opened new India factories, and redesigned a pneumatic robotic arm to cut energy use 80%. Robotics-specific revenue is not broken out (Q1 FY26 group revenue was $8.3B, beating estimates).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":34,"score":69,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":6,"progress":6,"firepower":10,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":8,"technology":6},"why":"Jabil partnered with Apptronik to scale manufacturing and production of Apollo humanoid robots, including industrial deployment with Mercedes-Benz.","segment":"Contract manufacturing","layer":"Manufacturing"},"signals_total":12,"facts_total":16},{"name":"Minth Group","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/minth-group","city":"Jiaxing","country":"China","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Minth Group is a publicly listed Chinese automotive Tier-1 manufacturer extending its global metal, trim, aluminium, battery-housing, body-structure and factory network into contract manufacturing for humanoid and embodied robots. On Aug-26 it launched, with AGIBOT, Europe's first embodied-robot mass-production base in Šabac, Serbia; the first phase represents EUR20m, with a planned EUR200m robotics industrial park and up to 20,000 robots and robot dogs of annual capacity. AGIBOT supplies the robot technology, while Minth supplies manufacturing infrastructure; named ecosystem links include AGIBOT, Leaderdrive, Serbian government agencies, Toyota Tsusho, Aisin, EHang, Lexus, Volkswagen Scout, Hyundai-Kia, Huawei and Ford.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":37,"score":67,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":6,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":10,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":4},"why":"Minth operates humanoid-robot mass-production facilities in Serbia and manufactures AGIBOT humanoids and robot dogs using its automotive production capabilities.","segment":"Contract manufacturing","layer":"Manufacturing"},"signals_total":12,"facts_total":43}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}