PSYONIC vs YQ Bionics: Manipulation compared

November 2026 edition · assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence

YQ Bionics ranks 36 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 68; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. PSYONIC is ahead on progress. YQ Bionics is ahead on production, commercials and firepower. Level on deployment, technology, positioning and leverage. PSYONIC is based in Champaign, United States, YQ Bionics in Beijing, China. YQ Bionics: private. PSYONIC is named in 51 signals and YQ Bionics in 0.

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.

YQ Bionics →

Beijing, Beijing, China · Humanoids · Components / Manipulation · private · yqbionics.com

YQ Bionics manufactures and supplies dexterous robotic hands, a manipulation component for humanoid robots.

Humanoids 100 · rank 36 · score 68Robotics · prospect · score 36

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment6
Production8
Commercials6
Progress8
Technology8
Positioning6
Firepower6
Leverage6

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

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.

Facts, with sources

  • orders exceeding RMB 100M36kr
  • Pre-A+ round, hundreds of millions RMBGasgoo
  • 富维-月泉机器人应用实验室完成汽车座椅零部件生产、装配与检测场景的数据采集、具身智能大模型训练、测试迭代及部署全流程yqbionics.com

21 facts on file.

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PSYONIC or YQ Bionics: which is ahead in humanoids?

YQ Bionics ranks 36 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 68; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. PSYONIC is ahead on progress. YQ Bionics is ahead on production, commercials and firepower. Level on deployment, technology, positioning and leverage. PSYONIC is based in Champaign, United States, YQ Bionics in Beijing, China. YQ Bionics: private. PSYONIC is named in 51 signals and YQ Bionics in 0.

How do PSYONIC and YQ Bionics compare?

YQ Bionics ranks 36 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 68; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. PSYONIC is ahead on progress. YQ Bionics is ahead on production, commercials and firepower. Level on deployment, technology, positioning and leverage. PSYONIC is based in Champaign, United States, YQ Bionics in Beijing, China. YQ Bionics: private. PSYONIC is named in 51 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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