{"title":"LinkerBot vs Sharpa: Manipulation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/linkerbot-vs-sharpa","comparison":"Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; LinkerBot ranks 19 with 78. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment and production. Sharpa is ahead on technology, firepower and leverage. Level on commercials, progress and positioning. LinkerBot is based in Beijing, China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. LinkerBot is named in 34 signals and Sharpa in 85.","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":"Sharpa","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/sharpa","city":"Singapore","country":"Singapore","stage":"private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Sharpa (Singapore HQ, Shanghai manufacturing) is a self-described unicorn (founded 2024) making the SharpaWave dexterous hand (22 active DoF, >1,000 tactile pixels per fingertip, ~$50,000 per hand) in mass production since October 2025, plus the North full-body robot shown at CES 2026. Its reference-design win is decisive: NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid (Computex 2026) is built on a Unitree H2 chassis with Sharpa Wave hands, the first dexterous reference design on the GR00T platform, with lab partners including NVIDIA, Google, MIT, and Stanford. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m (early orders from global technology firms).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":11,"score":84,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":10,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":7,"commercial":6,"deployment":7,"production":8,"technology":10},"why":"Sharpa sells North, a general-purpose humanoid robot, to enterprise operators for autonomous service and dexterous manipulation.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":85,"facts_total":78}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}