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Company Rankings
Sorted by market capitalization · Updated Apr 18, 2026| # | Company Name | Valuation | Stage | Total Raised | Today % | Price 30D | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Figure AIPrivate | $39.00B | Series C | $2.6B | — | Private | |
| 2 | Boston DynamicsPrivate | $21.00B | Acquired | $1.7B | — | Private | |
| 3 | Skild AIPrivate | $14.00B | Series C | $1.8B | — | Private | |
| 4 |  1X TechnologiesPrivate | $10.00B | Series D | $500M | — | Private | |
| 5 | Unitree RoboticsPrivate | $7.00B | Series C | $400M | — | Private | |
| 6 | Physical IntelligencePrivate | $5.60B | Pre-Revenue | $1.1B | — | Private | |
| 7 | ApptronikPrivate | $5.50B | Series A | $935M | — | Private | |
| 8 | AgiBotPrivate | $5.00B | Series A | $100M | — | Private | |
| 9 |  Neura RoboticsPrivate | $4.60B | Series B | $250M | — | Private | |
| 10 | Fourier IntelligencePrivate | $3.80B | Series C | $234M | — | Private |
Latest Analysis
Latest publications · Updated Feb 19
Sanctuary AI: The Small Player With the Largest Portfolio
Sanctuary AI skipped bipedal locomotion to focus on dexterous manipulation, building a 21-degree-of-freedom hydraulic hand and filing approximately 140 US patents — making it the only startup in the global top 20 for humanoid robotics IP alongside industrial giants like Sony, Toyota, and Honda.
Memo, the First Home Robot That Learns From You
Sunday Robotics' Memo is a household robot built by Stanford PhD dropouts that learns tasks from human demonstrations captured through wearable Skill Capture Gloves rather than traditional robot teleoperation. This approach enables scalable training data collection from real homes, generating approximately 10 million episodes of authentic household routines across 500+ participating homes.
War Machine or Something More? Building Phantom MK1
Foundation Robotics Labs' Phantom MK1 humanoid robot was designed for defense applications yet performed a DJ set at a San Francisco nightclub — raising urgent questions about the future of militarized robotics and who gets to decide when a machine becomes a weapon.
Top Robotics Stocks to Watch in 2026
Where to invest as the humanoid robot market accelerates past $70 billion. The robotics sector is projected to expand from USD 64.8 billion in 2025 to over USD 375 billion by 2035, but most of the most compelling companies remain private.
The Last AI Chip You'll Ever Need?
Etched is betting that burning the transformer architecture directly into silicon—via its Sohu ASIC chip—will make it the fastest and most efficient AI inference hardware on the market. The article examines whether this transformer-only gamble positions Etched as foundational infrastructure for humanoid robots and AI systems.
How Skild AI Is Building a General-Purpose Humanoid Mind
Skild AI, founded by two Carnegie Mellon robotics professors, is building a universal foundation model called the Skild Brain designed to power diverse robot bodies across industries without per-robot reprogramming. The article covers its architecture, training approach, and rapid rise toward a potential $4 billion valuation.
Inside the Brains and Minds Powering Physical AI Robotics
A deep-dive survey of the silicon and software companies building the core infrastructure for physical AI, covering chip makers like NVIDIA, Etched, and Hailo alongside mind/software platforms like Physical Intelligence, Skild AI, Covariant, OpenAI, Sanctuary AI, and Field AI. The article positions these firms as the infrastructure layer of tomorrow's robotic economy.
How Agility Robotics Is Bringing Digit to Work
Agility Robotics, the Oregon-based company behind the Digit humanoid robot, has moved from academic research to commercial warehouse deployments with partners including Amazon and GXO Logistics. The article covers Digit's design, its Robot-as-a-Service model, and RoboFab—the company's 10,000-unit-per-year manufacturing facility.
Latest News
Latest Intelligence · Updated Jul 11
Is NEURA Robotics the Next Big Player in Humanoids?
A detailed profile of NEURA Robotics and its 4NE-1 humanoid robot, examining the German company's AURA AI platform, tiered neural architecture, Neuraverse skills ecosystem, and its roadmap to deploying 5 million robots worldwide by 2030.
The Magnificent Seven of Physical AI
XMAQUINA's Northstar Council profiles seven leading private humanoid robotics startups—1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Figure AI, Neura Robotics, Sanctuary AI, and Unitree Robotics—evaluating each as a potential investment target for the DAO's Wave 2 Genesis Auction. The article covers funding, partnerships, real-world deployments, and council commentary for each company.
Why the Humanoid Race Won't Have A Single Winner
Drawing on historical monopoly patterns and current market dynamics, this article argues that no single company will dominate humanoid robotics due to fierce global competition, geopolitical fragmentation (sovereignty, protectionism, national security), inevitable use-case specialization across factory, home, agriculture, military, and space, and brand-driven market segmentation.
Top Companies This Week
By the number of mentions of the company on RoboticoFigure AI
Figure AI builds autonomous humanoid robots, reaching a $39 billion valuation by September 2025 after raising over $1.7 billion from investors including Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, and Nvidia. Figure 03, introduced in October 2025, features proprietary Helix AI, tactile sensors, and wireless inductive charging.
Boston Dynamics
Founded in 1992 as a spin-off from MIT by Marc Raibert, Boston Dynamics pioneered dynamic legged robots. Now owned by Hyundai Motor Group, the company sells Spot ($74,500) and Stretch commercially, and retired its hydraulic Atlas in April 2024 in favor of an all-electric version.
Skild AI
Pittsburgh-based AI robotics company founded in 2023 by Carnegie Mellon professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta. Building a universal foundation model (the 'Skild Brain') to control any robot for any task. Valued at over 14 billion dollars after a 1.4 billion dollar SoftBank-led Series C in January 2026.
1X Technologies
Founded in Norway in 2014 as Halodi Robotics, 1X Technologies develops humanoid robots for home use. Backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund and EQT Ventures, the company opened NEO pre-orders in October 2025 at $20,000, with delivery planned for 2026.
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