{"title":"PSYONIC vs Xynova: Manipulation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/psyonic-vs-xynova","comparison":"Xynova ranks 30 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 72; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. PSYONIC is ahead on deployment. Xynova is ahead on progress, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on production, commercials and technology. PSYONIC is based in Champaign, United States, Xynova in Hangzhou, China. Xynova: private. PSYONIC is named in 51 signals and Xynova in 2.","companies":[{"name":"PSYONIC","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/psyonic","city":"Champaign","country":"United States","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"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).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":57,"score":63,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":9,"firepower":4,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"PSYONIC supplies multi-degree-of-freedom robotic hands and is developing integrations with humanoid and general-purpose robot platforms for manipulation.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":51,"facts_total":63},{"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."}