LinkerBot ranks 19 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 78; YQ Bionics ranks 36 with 68. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment, production, progress and positioning. Level on commercials, technology, firepower and leverage. Both are based in Beijing, China. YQ Bionics: private. LinkerBot is named in 34 signals and YQ Bionics in 0.
LinkerBot (灵心巧手) develops and sells dexterous robotic hands and related manipulation hardware for embodied-intelligence and humanoid-robot applications.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
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).
34 signals name LinkerBot.
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YQ Bionics manufactures and supplies dexterous robotic hands, a manipulation component for humanoid robots.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Yuequan Bionics builds dexterous robotic hands on a bionic "tension-compression body" architecture — closer to musculoskeletal loading than conventional linkage hands — and is one of the few hand makers actually in mass production: 36kr reports 10,000 units produced and orders exceeding RMB 100M, alongside financing rounds in the hundreds of millions of yuan (including a Pre-A+). Hands are the acknowledged bottleneck component of the humanoid industry, and a supplier shipping at this volume with real order book is a strategic node: every humanoid maker that does not build hands in-house is a potential customer. This is the strongest components story in the discovered queue.
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LinkerBot ranks 19 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 78; YQ Bionics ranks 36 with 68. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment, production, progress and positioning. Level on commercials, technology, firepower and leverage. Both are based in Beijing, China. YQ Bionics: private. LinkerBot is named in 34 signals and YQ Bionics in 0.
LinkerBot ranks 19 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 78; YQ Bionics ranks 36 with 68. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment, production, progress and positioning. Level on commercials, technology, firepower and leverage. Both are based in Beijing, China. YQ Bionics: private. LinkerBot is named in 34 signals and YQ Bionics in 0. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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