{"title":"LinkerBot vs Proception: Manipulation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/linkerbot-vs-proception","comparison":"LinkerBot ranks 19 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 78; Proception ranks 97 with 51. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. LinkerBot is based in Beijing, China, Proception in United States. LinkerBot is named in 34 signals and Proception in 9.","companies":[{"name":"LinkerBot","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/linkerbot","city":"Beijing","country":"China","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"LinkerBot is a Chinese maker of high-degree-of-freedom robotic hands, the only one mass-producing more than 1,000 high-DoF hands a month (capacity over 4,000/month across four factories) and claiming over 80% of global high-DoF hand volume; it shipped its 10,000th hand in December 2025 and targets 50,000-100,000 units in 2026. Customers include Samsung and Siemens plus research at Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, and Tsinghua, and it raised across four rounds in eight months (Series B ~$200M in February 2026, Series B+ at a $3B valuation in late April 2026, and a reported $6B round being sought). Revenue and the company-disclosed market-share figure are unverified, and the founding year is disputed (2019 vs 2023).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":19,"score":78,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["technology","firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":6,"commercial":6,"deployment":8,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"LinkerBot (灵心巧手) develops and sells dexterous robotic hands and related manipulation hardware for embodied-intelligence and humanoid-robot applications.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":34,"facts_total":9},{"name":"Proception","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/proception","city":null,"country":"United States","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Proception is a US humanoid-robotics component maker developing ProHand 1.0, a 22-DoF tendon-driven dexterous hand, and ProGlove, a wearable tactile-data system for robot-learning workflows. It publicly launched and began shipping its first batch to researchers and robotics companies on Jun-29-26, alongside an $11M seed led by First Round Capital with Y Combinator and BoxGroup; subsequent company activity indicates customer use and additional ProGlove sales. Its distinguishing bet is that humanoid builders will buy dexterous hands rather than develop them internally, but deployment scale, independent validation, named customers, and revenue remain unverified.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":97,"score":51,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":4,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":4,"commercial":3,"deployment":4,"production":4,"technology":6},"why":"Proception develops and sells ProHand, a dexterous tendon-driven robotic hand designed for humanoid and robotics applications. Its product is a manipulation component with integrated tactile sensing.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":9,"facts_total":26}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}