{"title":"LinkerBot vs YQ Bionics: Manipulation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/linkerbot-vs-yq-bionics","comparison":"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.","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":"YQ Bionics","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/yq-bionics","city":"Beijing","country":"China","stage":"private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":36,"score":68,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":6,"deployment":6,"production":8,"technology":8},"why":"YQ Bionics manufactures and supplies dexterous robotic hands, a manipulation component for humanoid robots.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":0,"facts_total":21}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}