Manufacturing

A2 Ultra. Market leader by volume: 5,100 units shipped 2025. CATL-backed.

Apollo humanoid. $935M raised at $5.5B+ valuation. RaaS model. Mercedes-Benz deployment partner.

Atlas (Electric). Hyundai-owned ($1.1B acquisition). 2026 shipments allocated.

Figure 02 humanoid robot. BMW pilot deployment. $39B valuation — highest in humanoid robotics.

Optimus Gen 3. Bipedal humanoid for factory automation. Self-funded. Target: 5K units 2025.

Walker S humanoid. First humanoid robotics IPO (HKEX 2023). NIO auto factory deployments.

GR-2 general-purpose humanoid. SoftBank-backed. Strong healthcare rehabilitation roots.

Forerunner K2. Low-cost manufacturing humanoid. Mass production ramp 2025.

4NE-1 cognitive humanoid. Volvo backing. European humanoid robotics leader.

STAR1 humanoid. Ex-Tsinghua team. Record-breaking walking speed demonstrations.

Iron humanoid robot from XPeng's robotics division. Production base under construction, targeting end-of-year production. Corporate-funded with full automotive supply chain integration.

AlphaBot series humanoid scaling from 1K to 10K units in 2026. $144M Series B at $1.4B valuation backed by Baidu and CRRC. HKC ordered 1,000 robots. CEO targeting IPO in 1-2 years.

DIANA robot. Force-controlled manipulation. Founded by DLR robotics researchers.

Mobile manipulation humanoid. Founded by former Waymo/Google robotics leads.

Rizon adaptive robot. Force-controlled manipulation for complex assembly tasks.

Kaleido humanoid robot. Disaster response focus. Leveraging decades of industrial robotics.

RoBee cognitive humanoid. CE-certified. Italian manufacturing focus.

Sawyer collaborative robot. Pioneer of safe human-robot collaboration in manufacturing.

Guardian XO full-body exoskeleton. Industrial augmentation for heavy lifting tasks.

Moz1 humanoid (26 DOF, force-controlled) deployed at CATL battery facility and JD.com retail. Differentiated by proprietary "dirty data" approach — wearable collection devices cut data costs 90%. 200K+ hours of interaction data, targeting 1M by EOY. Partners: CATL, JD.com, Huawei, Xiaomi, TCL.

UR series collaborative robots. Market leader in cobots. Teradyne subsidiary. 75K+ deployed.

Humanoid robot startup. Backed by major Chinese VCs. Bipedal locomotion focus.

Chinese humanoid robotics startup backed by Ant Group (Alibaba affiliate). S1 demonstrates human-level manipulation speed — among the fastest dexterous humanoid arms demonstrated publicly.

Chinese robotics company listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Atom humanoid priced at $27,500, in mass production. Strong presence in collaborative robotics and education markets expanding into humanoid form factor.

Italian humanoid robotics spinoff building on 20 years of iCub research at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). EUR 70M raised to commercialize decades of academic humanoid robotics research into industrial applications.

Chinese smartphone giant entering humanoid robotics. Spun off from Huawei in 2020, Honor announced its first humanoid robot program — leveraging its AI and hardware expertise from the mobile industry.

South Korean humanoid robotics company with $5.8B market cap. Samsung holds 35% stake. Winners of DARPA Robotics Challenge. RB-Y1 is their flagship full-size humanoid platform targeting industrial applications.