{"title":"LinkerBot vs Xynova: Manipulation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/linkerbot-vs-xynova","comparison":"LinkerBot ranks 19 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 78; Xynova ranks 30 with 72. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment, production and commercials. Xynova is ahead on firepower and leverage. Level on progress, technology and positioning. LinkerBot is based in Beijing, China, Xynova in Hangzhou, China. Xynova: private. LinkerBot is named in 34 signals and Xynova in 2.","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":"Xynova","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/xynova","city":"Hangzhou","country":"China","stage":"private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Xynova (Hangzhou) is a Chinese maker of tendon-driven dexterous hands (the Flex 1 at 25 DoF, 380g, >30kg lift, claimed the lightest and highest-load high-DoF hand on the market, plus the Flex2), built full-stack in-house down to motors, reducers, and ball screws. It raised ~RMB 1B (~$148M) within 18 months of its end-2024 founding, with CATL Capital, Xiaomi, and Li Auto simultaneously on its cap table, the fastest capital accumulation in the hands segment after LinkerBot. It leads the high-performance weight-to-load contest on published specifications; revenue is undisclosed.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":30,"score":72,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":8,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Xynova sells the Flex 2 bionic dexterous hand to humanoid and robotics manufacturers for advanced robotic manipulation.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":2,"facts_total":20}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}