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Unitree Robotics

Unitree Robotics is a Chinese robotics company producing quadruped and humanoid robots at affordable prices.

Track Unitree Robotics
Founded
2016
HQ
Hangzhou, China
Status
private

The verified answer

As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Unitree Robotics: 9 models, 9 deployments across 9 regions, $819.0M raised, 15 active incidents. 14 sources back the record.

CategoryHumanoids

Funding

$819.0M

Models

9

Deployments

9

Patents

4

Overview

Unitree Robotics is a Chinese robotics company producing quadruped and humanoid robots at affordable prices. Products include G1 ($13,500 humanoid), H2 ($29,900 humanoid), Go2 quadruped, and B2 robot dog. Known for aggressive pricing making humanoid robots accessible. IPO on SSE. Deployed in research, entertainment, and industrial applications worldwide.

Verified record

Verified deployments
9 deployments on file
Active incidents
15 incidents on file

Valuation of record

Company-claimed
$9B (reported, approximate)as of Aug 2026

Priced roundIPO (priced) post-money

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Key facts

Robots

G1 (from ~$16,000, most affordable humanoid), H1, R1

Scale

Shipped 5,500+ humanoids in 2025; targeting 10,000-20,000 in 2026

Strategy

Ultra-low-cost; commoditizing humanoid hardware

Fundingsee investors →

Series C-IV; investors incl. Tencent, Alibaba, state capital (figures not publicly confirmed)

IPO

Preparing STAR Market listing, reported ~$7B target

HQ

Hangzhou, China (founded 2016, CEO Wang Xingxing)

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Product — G1

$13,500 humanoid robot — most affordable humanoid

Product — H2

$29,900 humanoid with enhanced capabilities

Product — Go2/B2

Quadruped robot dogs for research and industrial use

Data & sources

News coverage

3

Patent documents

4

Web sources

7

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Models (9)

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Current platform

B2-W

Unitree's B2-W is a wheeled-leg variant of the B2 industrial quadruped, combining legs with interchangeable wheels for high-speed travel on flat ground (up to ~15 km/h) and leg mobility over steps/terrain; it carries ~40 kg, ranges ~25 km, and is rated IP67 (-20 to 55C).

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Current platform

Unitree H2 Plus

Full-size bipedal humanoid robot developed by Unitree Robotics and selected as the hardware chassis for NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T reference humanoid design, announced at ICRA 2026 in Vienna (June 2026). Standing approximately 183 cm (6 feet) tall with 31 degrees of freedom in the base body. The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T reference configuration pairs the H2 Plus chassis with Sharpa Wave tactile five-fingered hands (22 DoF total, 11 DoF each) and an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 module for onboard compute, enabling advanced on-device inference for sim-to-real policy transfer and dexterous manipulation. The Isaac GR00T open software stack, including Isaac Lab simulation and GR00T N1 foundation model workflows, runs natively on the platform. Unitree announced H2 Plus unit availability beginning October 2026. Named early adopters include Ai2, ETH Zurich, Stanford Robotics Center, and UC San Diego's Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory.

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Current platform

Unitree B1

Industrial quadruped (~50 kg, IP67, 20 kg walking / 80 kg standing payload) and a research/HRI platform; the predecessor to the B2 and still sold for its IP rating and sustained payload. Supports SLAM/autonomy research.

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Current platform

Unitree B2

Industrial/heavy-duty quadruped with LiDAR + camera autonomous navigation, advanced obstacle avoidance and autonomous charging; ~40 kg walking payload (120 kg static), 15-20 km range. Commercial; for inspection, load transport and field operations.

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Current platform

Unitree Go2

Consumer/developer quadruped. The Pro/LiDAR variant carries 4D LiDAR for point-cloud mapping and autonomous path-following; reinforcement-learning locomotion. Commercial (Pro ~$2,800). Autonomous-nav capable; not marketed as a standalone autonomous inspection system.

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Current platform

Unitree H2

Unitree H2 is a full-size humanoid robot from Unitree Robotics of Hangzhou, China and the successor to the H1, unveiled in October 2025 and listed for sale on Unitree's official store at 29,900 dollars, with a separate EDU developer variant sold via contact-sales and dealer shipping to North America in the second quarter of 2026. It is a genuine hardware step over the H1 rather than a re-skin: 31 degrees of freedom, up from 27, with a new three-degree-of-freedom waist, seven-degree-of-freedom arms up from four, a quasi-serial leg and foot redesign, a G1 and R1 aligned hip configuration, and a bio-inspired animated face new to the H-series. It stands about 1.82 meters and weighs around 70 kilograms with battery, rates roughly seven kilograms of arm payload, runs about three hours per charge on an Intel Core i5 or i7 compute base while the EDU variant offers an NVIDIA Jetson option, and walks at under two meters per second, trading the H1's higher top speed for dexterity and bionics. The registry records it at commercial maturity because it is an openly purchasable product with a published price and stated second-quarter 2026 shipping, while noting it is not deployed at fleet scale. Critically, Unitree's marquee H2 demonstrations, including dance, boxing, martial arts, a runway walk, and a 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala appearance, are choreographed or teleoperated rather than verified autonomous task execution: teleoperation via a control rig or Apple Vision Pro is Unitree's stated bridge technology and autonomy is a goal rather than the present state, so the H2 is recorded as a capable motion and hardware platform without asserting autonomous task capability.

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Current platform

Unitree R1

Unitree R1 is a lightweight bipedal humanoid robot with an integrated large multimodal model (voice + images) and fully open joint/sensor interfaces; developer/research-oriented, with an education-focused R1 EDU variant.

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Current platform

Unitree H1

Unitree's full-size bipedal humanoid research platform, standing approximately 1.8 m tall and weighing 47 kg. The H1 achieves a documented maximum running speed of 3.3 m/s (7.4 mph) using proprietary high-torque joints with 360 N-m peak knee torque, and is powered by a quick-swappable 864 Wh lithium-ion battery. The base configuration ships without hands; arms include expandable mounting points for end-effectors. Unitree positions the H1 as a high-performance research platform for universities and enterprise R&D teams, distinct from the smaller and lower-cost G1.

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Current platform

Unitree G1

Unitree's compact full-size humanoid, introduced as a notably low-cost research-grade bipedal platform (base pricing widely reported around $13,500-$16,000). Roughly 130 cm tall, ~35 kg, with a configurable 23-43 degrees of freedom, 3D LiDAR, depth cameras, and athletic capabilities. Widely adopted by universities and labs.

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Relationships

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Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by Unitree Robotics, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

Claim Integrity: 50% (2 of 4 resolved claims verified; 4 tracked)
  • VerifiedCapacity · claimed 2026-06-20
    “China's EngineAI just opened a Shenzhen factory that can roll a T800 humanoid robot off the line”

    EngineAI T800 factory in Shenzhen confirmed. Note: This is EngineAI, not Unitree. Included as a comparison benchmark for Chinese humanoid production rates.

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  • Partly trueCapacity · claimed 2026-06-01
    “1 robot/hour”

    This was Elon Musk's claim about Tesla Optimus, not Unitree. Unitree's own production rate is not independently confirmed. Unitree's G1 is sold from $16K and is a consumer/developer product with mass production capability, but specific unit output numbers are not publicly disclosed.

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  • Partly trueTimeline · claimed 2026-06-01 · deadline 2026-06-30
    “Unitree IPO'd in June 2026”

    CORRECTION: Downgraded from verified to partial. Unitree received CSRC regulatory approval for its Shanghai STAR Market IPO (July 3, 2026), but Reuters reports 'has not set a launch date' — the IPO is approved but not yet listed/trading. A verified requires the listing completed (shares trading), not merely filed or approved.

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  • VerifiedCapability · claimed 2026-01-01
    “Unitree G1: Most Viral Humanoid Robot 2026”

    Unitree G1 viral videos (martial arts, dancing, soccer) have hundreds of millions of views. The "most viral" characterization is accurate. However, viral demos are choreographed lab performances, not autonomous work deployments. https://www.youtube.com/@unitreerobotics

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Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Unitree Robotics, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

How much will Tesla Optimus cost?
Elon Musk has publicly targeted a $20,000–$30,000 consumer price for Tesla Optimus, but Tesla has not opened orders, published a confirmed retail price, or shipped a single unit to a paying customer as of mid-2026. The $20K–$30K figure is a forward target, not a current price.Read the full explainer →
How much will Optimus 3 cost?
No confirmed price exists for Optimus 3 (the Gen 3 / V3 production design). Tesla has never published a Gen-3-specific price. The only figure quoted is Elon Musk's general $20,000 to $30,000 at-scale target from the October 2024 We, Robot event, a claimed manufacturer projection that has repeatedly slipped, not a verified or Gen-3-specific price.Read the full explainer →
How much does a humanoid robot cost in 2026?
Humanoid robot pricing in 2026 spans five availability tiers with different verification states. Research-tools pricing is verified and publicly listed (Unitree G1 at $13,500-$16,000; R1 at $5,900). Consumer-available pricing is verified (1X NEO at $20,000 outright purchase or $499/month subscription, six-month minimum). Enterprise-deployed pricing is not publicly disclosed (Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Agility Digit under contract; analyst estimates put the range at $50,000-$250,000). Consumer-promised pricing is a claim (Tesla Optimus at $20,000-$30,000 at-scale target). Engineering-credibility tier hardware costs $200,000+ but is enterprise R&D only (Boston Dynamics Atlas).Read the full explainer →
Can I buy a humanoid robot in 2026?
Yes, but the answer depends on what you mean by buy. Five tiers of humanoid availability exist in 2026: consumer-available (1X NEO at $20,000 outright or $499/month subscription, six-month minimum); research-tools-pricing (Unitree G1 at $13,500-$16,000 and R1 at $5,900); enterprise-deployed (Figure, Apptronik, Agility under contract); consumer-promised but not shipping (Tesla Optimus); and engineering-credibility with commercial transition pending (Boston Dynamics Atlas). Which fits your need depends on whether you're a consumer, a developer, an enterprise procurement organization, or waiting on Tesla.Read the full explainer →
Which is the cheapest humanoid robot you can buy?
The Unitree R1 is the cheapest walking humanoid robot commercially available in 2026 at $5,900 base (smaller-form mass-market consumer + developer platform launched July 2025). For a full-size bipedal humanoid, the Unitree G1 starts at roughly $13,500 to $16,000 base. Both are made by Unitree Robotics (Hangzhou, China) and represent the most aggressively priced humanoid platforms commercially available; every other publicly-listed humanoid is meaningfully more expensive.Read the full explainer →
What is the best humanoid robot to buy in 2026?
There is no single best humanoid robot in 2026; the right pick depends on which of the five availability tiers matches your use case. For consumer home use, 1X NEO is the only verified-available option ($20,000 outright or $499/month subscription with a six-month minimum; late-2026 US delivery). For research and developer access, the Unitree G1 is the practical choice. For warehouse and factory pilots, Agility Digit, Apptronik Apollo, and Figure 03 are the platforms with documented commercial deployments. For elite R&D, Boston Dynamics Atlas remains the dynamic-motion benchmark. Tesla Optimus remains consumer-promised but not for sale.Read the full explainer →
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Who are the leading humanoid robot makers?
By active commercial deployment activity in 2026, the leading humanoid robot makers are Tesla (Optimus, factory pilots), Figure AI (02, BMW pilot), Agility Robotics (Digit, warehouse operators), Apptronik (Apollo, Mercedes-Benz pilot), 1X Technologies (Neo, consumer pre-launch), Boston Dynamics (Atlas, R&D), and Unitree Robotics (G1/H-series, research). A fast-growing Chinese cohort (UBTech, Xiaomi, XPeng, Fourier, EngineAI, and others) is shipping platforms at increasingly competitive price points.Read the full explainer →
Is Figure AI a Chinese company?
No. Figure AI is a US company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2022 by American entrepreneur Brett Adcock. The confusion likely reflects the substantial Chinese humanoid-manufacturer presence in the broader category (Unitree, AgiBot, UBTech), but Figure AI is American.Read the full explainer →
What is Figure 03?
Figure 03 is the third-generation humanoid robot from Figure AI, a US humanoid manufacturer based in Sunnyvale, California. The robot stands 173 cm (about 5'8"), weighs 61 kg, and is currently in active pilot deployment at a Catalyst Brands distribution logistics center. It is not available for consumer purchase as of mid-2026.Read the full explainer →
How much do the Unitree G1 and R1 humanoid robots cost?
Unitree's G1 humanoid robot starts at roughly $13,500 to $16,000 for a base research-grade configuration, with more advanced versions running higher. The smaller R1 starts at $5,900 for an entry consumer and developer configuration. Both are made by Unitree Robotics, a Chinese manufacturer based in Hangzhou, and represent the most aggressively priced humanoid platforms commercially available in 2026.Read the full explainer →
Which humanoid robot makers are American, Chinese, or from other countries?
The major American humanoid makers are Figure AI (Sunnyvale CA), Apptronik (Austin TX), Tesla (Palo Alto CA / Austin TX), Boston Dynamics (Waltham MA; Hyundai-owned), and Agility Robotics (Salem OR). The major Chinese makers are Unitree Robotics (Hangzhou), AgiBot (Shanghai), UBTech (Shenzhen), Fourier Intelligence (Shanghai), XPeng Robotics (Guangzhou), and several others. 1X Technologies operates a Norwegian-American structure (Moss Norway HQ plus Hayward California factory). Mentee Robotics is Israeli (acquired by Mobileye January 2026). Sanctuary AI is Canadian (Vancouver).Read the full explainer →
How does teleoperation differ across humanoid robot manufacturers?
Every major humanoid manufacturer uses teleoperation in development and demonstration. The differential across the cohort is the disclosure layer, not the underlying practice. 1X is the most transparent (explicit teleop disclosure on the consumer commerce surface). Tesla operated framing-without-disclosure at We Robot 2024 (autonomy framing; subsequently confirmed teleoperated). Figure deploys with human-in-loop for exception handling at customer facilities. Apptronik has mixed disclosure across enterprise pilots. The framework treats the disclosure differential as the editorial finding.Read the full explainer →
What is Sanctuary AI and the Phoenix humanoid robot?
Sanctuary AI is a Canadian humanoid robotics company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, founded by Geordie Rose and Suzanne Gildert (both Kindred AI alumni). The company's Phoenix platform is a seventh-generation humanoid emphasizing a cognitive architecture that combines symbolic reasoning with neural learning, structurally distinct from the end-to-end foundation-model approach most US humanoid makers pursue. Sanctuary AI is privately held; not publicly traded.Read the full explainer →
Can humanoid robots cook?
No consumer-deployed humanoid robot can cook autonomously in 2026. Demonstrations and research exist across the cohort; consumer-grade cooking capability is not verified at deployment scale. Purpose-built robotic kitchens (such as Moley Robotics, a non-humanoid installed kitchen) exist at the research-and-experimental tier near $300,000. For a general-purpose humanoid robot that can prepare meals autonomously in a customer's kitchen, the answer is years from verified consumer-deployment.Read the full explainer →
Can humanoid robots do laundry?
Yes, with disclosure. 1X NEO is the verified-leader for consumer-deployment laundry capability in 2026: NEO performs laundry tasks (folding, sorting, light loading) in consumer homes with explicit Expert Mode teleoperation disclosure for complex tasks. Other cohort manufacturers (Tesla Optimus, Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Boston Dynamics Atlas, Unitree) demonstrate clothes-folding or related manipulation but do not consumer-deploy laundry capability. Laundry is the canonical example of how task capability varies dramatically across the humanoid cohort: 1X delivers verified consumer capability with teleop disclosure; others deliver demonstrations without consumer deployment.Read the full explainer →
What can humanoid robots actually do today?
Humanoid robot capability in 2026 sorts into four verification tiers per DEPLOY's framework. Verified consumer-deployed: 1X NEO performs laundry, organizing, and light manipulation in customer homes with explicit teleop disclosure. Verified enterprise-deployed: Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Agility Digit, and UBTech Walker S2 perform manufacturing and logistics tasks at Fortune-500 customer facilities. Research and demonstration: Boston Dynamics Atlas, Tesla Optimus, and Unitree platforms show capability footage but do not deploy. Claimed future: cooking, autonomous home assistance, childcare, and general-purpose household work remain claimed across the cohort but not consumer-deployed.Read the full explainer →
What is Fourier Intelligence and the GR-3 humanoid?
Fourier Intelligence is a Chinese humanoid robotics company headquartered in Shanghai with distinctive technical heritage in lower-limb exoskeleton and rehabilitation robotics. The GR-3 is the company's third-generation general-purpose humanoid platform, evolved from the GR-1 and GR-2 predecessors. Fourier occupies a distinctive position in the Chinese humanoid cohort: medical and rehabilitation engineering heritage transitioning to general-purpose humanoid product, with research-platform commercial positioning rather than the factory-deployment focus of UBTech Walker S2 or the research-tools pricing of Unitree G1 and R1.Read the full explainer →
What is PAL Robotics and the TALOS humanoid?
PAL Robotics is a Spanish humanoid robotics company headquartered in Barcelona, founded in 2004 with extensive European research-consortium history. The TALOS is the company's full-size adult bipedal humanoid platform, positioned for research-institution deployment rather than consumer or scaled-enterprise commercial use. PAL extends DEPLOY's humanoid manufacturer cohort to European context, representing a distinct geographic-and-strategic position from the American, Chinese, and Canadian cohort members.Read the full explainer →
What's the difference between a humanoid robot and an industrial robot?
Humanoid robots are bipedal robots with arms, hands, and roughly human-like proportions designed to operate in human environments and perform general-purpose tasks (Tesla Optimus, 1X NEO, Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Boston Dynamics Atlas, Unitree G1). Industrial robots are fixed-base manipulator arms designed for specific factory-automation tasks at high precision and reliability (FANUC, Universal Robots, KUKA, ABB). The categories share the word 'robot' but operate at substantively different scales (industrial robotics is a mature commercial category with hundreds of thousands of installed units; humanoid robotics is an emerging category with consumer-deployment at single-manufacturer scale).Read the full explainer →
What's the difference between robotics brain providers and robot makers?
Robotics value chain operates across three structural tiers. Brain-provider tier companies (Skild AI, Physical Intelligence, Covariant, Google DeepMind, OpenAI Robotics, NVIDIA Project GR00T) build foundation models for robotics without making hardware. OEM-platform tier companies (Figure AI, Apptronik, 1X Technologies, Tesla, Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Unitree, UBTech) build robot hardware platforms with integrated brains. Deployment tier represents real-world operation at customer facilities (BMW Spartanburg, GXO Flowery Branch, Mercedes-Benz pilots). The three tiers operate complementarily; understanding which tier a company occupies is essential for evaluating its competitive position and verification posture.Read the full explainer →
What is Unitree?
Unitree (Unitree Robotics) is the established Chinese humanoid-robotics maker operating the broadest Chinese sub-cohort product lineup: G1 + R1 + H1 + H2. Per Agent A humanoid registry audit: pure-humanoid-maker archetype with broadest Chinese product lineup distinguishing it from single-product entries (XPENG Iron + EngineAI SE01) and from smaller multi-product entries (AgiBot Yuanzheng A2 + Lingxi X2). Within-maker product variance covers complementary deployment positioning. Unitree H2 is distinctive within the entire Chinese humanoid sub-cohort for actually-purchasable consumer pricing ($29,900); rare in the Chinese sub-cohort which otherwise skews industrial-research-leaning. CRITICAL CAP-FLAG against aggregator-drift framing as 'autonomous' or 'shipping at scale': verification posture across the product lineup is overwhelmingly demonstration/teleoperation per consistent Chinese sub-cohort discipline.Read the full explainer →
What is Unitree H2?
Unitree H2 is the most recent humanoid product within Unitree Robotics' broadest-Chinese-product-lineup; new per Agent A registry ingest as 6th genuine net-new this session. CRITICAL DISTINCTIVE POSITIONING: H2 is the ONLY verified Chinese humanoid sub-cohort entry with actually-purchasable consumer pricing at $29,900 (distinctive within the entire Chinese sub-cohort which otherwise skews industrial-research-leaning per the consumer-vs-industrial humanoid sub-cohort architecture). Anchors the cross-archetype intersection: Chinese geographic sub-cohort × consumer archetype = Unitree H2 is the only verified entry at the intersection. CRITICAL CAP-FLAG: H2 consumer-purchasability does NOT equal autonomous deployment; public demonstrations are demonstration/teleoperation/choreography per consistent Chinese sub-cohort discipline; the consumer-purchasability + autonomous-deployment axes are structurally distinct. Cohort positioning: cross-archetype intersection (Chinese × consumer) within the humanoid cluster.Read the full explainer →
What is a quadruped robot and what are they used for?
Quadruped robots are four-legged autonomous mobile platforms that can traverse rough terrain, stairs, and environments where wheeled robots cannot operate. The primary commercial applications are industrial inspection (Boston Dynamics Spot, ANYbotics ANYmal), defense and security (Ghost Robotics Vision 60), research (Unitree Go2), and consumer experimentation. Quadrupeds are structurally distinct from humanoid robots.Read the full explainer →
What is Unitree Go2 and how does it compare to Boston Dynamics Spot?
Unitree Go2 is a Chinese quadruped robot from Unitree Robotics priced from under $1,600 for the base configuration, making it the lowest-cost commercially available quadruped in the cohort by a significant margin. Go2 targets research, education, and hobbyist use. Unitree is a Hangzhou-based company that also makes humanoid robots (G1, H1, H2).Read the full explainer →

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Safety record

15 incidents on record (3 serious, 3 moderate, 9 minor). Most recent: Jul 2026.

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moderate
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minor
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injury
7
malfunction
4
regulatory action
3
property damage
1

Most recent: Jul 2026

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Incidents affecting Unitree Robotics (15)

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Recent coverage

Unitree Robotics in third-party press

Unitree, China’s humanoid robot champion, lists in Shanghai on 19 August after record demand

Aug 17, 2026

Unitree IPO oversubscribed more than 5,000 times as investors pile into humanoid robotics

Aug 14, 2026

China’s Humanoid Robot Boom Faces A Bigger Question: Can These Machines Make Money?

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