Score a Robotics Company Across Six Dimensions

Ark Invest's 2025 robotics tracker shows that 6 of every 10 robotics failures trace back to integration maturity and unit economics, not technical readiness. Pitch decks are engineered to obscure that ratio. The companies that excite investors most, with sharp demos and bold technical claims, routinely score poorly on the dimensions that predict commercial success. A six-axis radar forces the conversation onto exactly those dimensions: the shape of the polygon is harder to fake than any single axis.

This interactive scores a company across six dimensions (technology readiness, unit economics, integration maturity, team composition, market timing, and defensibility), each on a 1-to-5 scale with transparent anchors. The dashed reference polygon underneath is the "common pitch" shape every deck claims. As you score, magenta arrows mark every axis where your polygon contracts away from that reference: the gap between deck and diligence, visualized. A preset row above the sliders loads analyst reads of five real humanoid companies as of early 2026 (1X Technologies, Figure AI, Apptronik, Agility Robotics, and Boston Dynamics) so a cold reader can calibrate against actual firms instead of abstract bands.

Anchors come from the Association for Advancing Automation's 2024 due-diligence framework, from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) definitions adapted to robotics (International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 16290 plus field adjustments), and from venture-capital diligence notes on robotics rounds in 2024-2025. Unit-economics bands calibrate against Ark Invest's robotics gross-margin tracking. Integration-maturity field-hour thresholds come from the same intervention-rate curves Universal Robots uses to characterize customer deployments. Preset company scores are one analyst's read of public signals (BMW Leipzig pilots, Mercedes paid trials, Amazon and GXO deployments, the October 2025 NEO teleoperation reveal); they are educational calibration points, not endorsements.

Start with the preset row at the top of the interactive. Click 1X Technologies first and notice how the polygon hugs the dashed pitch line; click Boston Dynamics and watch the same six axes expand past the reference. Then switch a real company you have seen this quarter into the sliders and pay attention to the magenta arrows. The verdict line below the chart is not a valuation; it is an instruction. If a founder cannot answer cleanly to the weakest axis the radar identifies, the rest of the pitch is decoration.