PSYONIC vs Schunk: Manipulation compared

November 2026 edition · assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence

Schunk ranks 47 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 65; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. PSYONIC is ahead on deployment and progress. Schunk is ahead on production and firepower. Level on commercials, technology, positioning and leverage. PSYONIC is based in Champaign, United States, Schunk in Lauffen am Neckar, Germany. Schunk: Established. PSYONIC is named in 51 signals and Schunk in 6.

PSYONIC →

Champaign, Illinois, United States · Humanoids · Components / Manipulation · psyonic.io

PSYONIC supplies multi-degree-of-freedom robotic hands and is developing integrations with humanoid and general-purpose robot platforms for manipulation.

Humanoids 100 · rank 57 · score 63Robotics · watchlist · score 54

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment6
Production6
Commercials4
Progress9
Technology8
Positioning6
Firepower4
Leverage6

Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.

Positioning

PSYONIC is a US maker of the Ability Hand, a prosthetic-validated bionic hand (Medicare-covered, drop-tested, with touch feedback) crossing into robotics with customers including NASA and Meta, shipping in production for years. It is named the leader in prosthetic-derived validation, the only hands player whose product passes daily human-life reliability testing. Revenue is estimated at <25m (a crowdfunding-heavy cap table).

Latest signals

  • Arm launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI with more than 80 ecosystem companies.Arm
  • RoboBusiness 2026 announced keynote programming on production AI, humanoids, and the next generation of robotics.The Robot Report
  • Advanced Humanoid Forum 2027 will bring Chinese robot makers together with European industrial and software organizations.humanoid.guide

51 signals name PSYONIC.

Facts, with sources

  • ABB Robotics GoFa collaborative robotPSYONIC
  • Collaboration with NVIDIA and ABB to use Ability Hand movement, contact, and grip-force data for robotic manipulation and physical AIPSYONIC
  • Ability Hand integrated directly into NVIDIA Isaac Lab open-source framework for robot learningPSYONIC

63 facts on file.

Schunk →

Lauffen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany · Humanoids · Components / Manipulation · Established · schunk.com

SCHUNK is helping establish humanoid robotics capabilities and brings its established gripping and manipulation technology to the emerging humanoid robotics ecosystem.

Robotics 100 · rank 31 · score 85Humanoids 100 · rank 47 · score 65

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment4
Production8
Commercials4
Progress6
Technology8
Positioning6
Firepower8
Leverage6

Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.

Positioning

Schunk is a German family-owned world leader in industrial grippers and clamping (3,900 employees across 50+ countries) and the anchor of the industrial-gripper segment; its SVH five-finger hand is the most established commercial dexterous hand, and its EGU electric gripper integrates with UR, KUKA, FANUC, ABB, and Yaskawa. Current revenue is stale (EUR 515M as of 2019, no newer figure found) and the gripper-segment split is undisclosed.

Latest signals

  • Wandelbots, SCHUNK, and EY partnered to scale Physical AI in European manufacturing using NVIDIA technology.Wandelbots
  • Robert Bosch Robotics set a factory-automation task-success KPI of 99.x%.humanoid.guide
  • SCHUNK introduced the GROW automation cell as a standardized physical-AI production system.NVIDIA blogs

6 signals name Schunk.

Facts, with sources

  • Wandelbots, SCHUNK, and EY partnered to scale Physical AI in European manufacturing using NVIDIA technologyWandelbots
  • [object Object]Schunk
  • Established a foundation for humanoid robotics and AI with Offenburg University of Applied Sciences and BURGER GROUPSchunk

19 facts on file.

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PSYONIC or Schunk: which is ahead in humanoids?

Schunk ranks 47 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 65; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. PSYONIC is ahead on deployment and progress. Schunk is ahead on production and firepower. Level on commercials, technology, positioning and leverage. PSYONIC is based in Champaign, United States, Schunk in Lauffen am Neckar, Germany. Schunk: Established. PSYONIC is named in 51 signals and Schunk in 6.

How do PSYONIC and Schunk compare?

Schunk ranks 47 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 65; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. PSYONIC is ahead on deployment and progress. Schunk is ahead on production and firepower. Level on commercials, technology, positioning and leverage. PSYONIC is based in Champaign, United States, Schunk in Lauffen am Neckar, Germany. Schunk: Established. PSYONIC is named in 51 signals and Schunk in 6. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.

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