Unitree ranks 2 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 89; MagicLab ranks 85 with 53. Unitree is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. MagicLab is based in China, Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Unitree: Public, founded 2016. MagicLab is named in 13 signals and Unitree in 720.
MagicLab develops and sells general-purpose humanoid robots including MagicBot Z1, MagicBot X1, GEN1, and Xiaomai, with factory deployments for inspection, material handling, picking, and multi-robot collaboration.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
MagicLab (Magic Atom Robotics Technology (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.; 魔法原子), founded Dec-23 and based in Wuxi, Jiangsu, is a Chinese embodied-AI company building full-stack general-purpose humanoid (MagicBot Gen1/Z1/X1) and quadruped (MagicDog) robots with a claimed >90% in-house hardware rate covering actuators, dexterous hands and reducers. It has deployed multi-robot collaborative humanoids in factory settings (Dec-24), served as intelligent-robot partner to the 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, and hosted a Silicon Valley summit (Apr-26) unveiling its Magic-Mix world model, H01 hand and MagicBot X1. Open question: revenue is undisclosed and the $14B-by-2036 and '60% international sales' figures are company-sourced projections/claims that could not be independently verified.
13 signals name MagicLab.
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Unitree designs, manufactures, and sells general-purpose bipedal humanoid robots including the G1, G1+, H1, and R1. It has reported mass production of approximately 18,000 bipedal humanoids.
Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.
Unitree is the Chinese humanoid and quadruped leader (Shanghai STAR Market IPO in August 2026, ~$905M raised at ~$9B, closing up ~460-542% day one) that shipped 5,500 humanoids in 2025 (world #1 per its prospectus) with FY25 revenue of RMB 1.71B (~$250M, +335%) at ~60% gross margin, humanoids now 51.5% of core revenue. Its H2 full-size humanoid ships at $29,900 (the cheapest on the market) and its G1 at $13,500, with a $100K NVIDIA GR00T reference platform due late 2026, targeting ~20,000 humanoid shipments in 2026. A critical mix flag: >70% of 2025 humanoid sales were research and educational buyers, with industrial deployments under 10% of revenue, so its shipment count and its useful-work count are very different things.
720 signals name Unitree.
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Unitree ranks 2 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 89; MagicLab ranks 85 with 53. Unitree is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. MagicLab is based in China, Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Unitree: Public, founded 2016. MagicLab is named in 13 signals and Unitree in 720.
Unitree ranks 2 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 89; MagicLab ranks 85 with 53. Unitree is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. MagicLab is based in China, Unitree in Hangzhou, China. Unitree: Public, founded 2016. MagicLab is named in 13 signals and Unitree in 720. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.
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