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MEKAWIRE has published 56 stories about Unitree Robotics since Mar 5, 2025; the latest is from Oct 1, 2026.

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Mar 5, 2025

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Oct 1, 2026

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Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
Who supplies humanoid robot joints? Japan's Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco, China's Leaderdrive and Germany's Schaeffler lead, while Tesla and Figure build their own
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?
Date
Oct 1, 2026
Type
Industry
US Army names IHMC's Alex humanoid and four component makers as xTechHumanoid winners
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Policy
Xiaomi-backed robot chip designer Amicro clears Hong Kong listing hearing as sales rise 42% and losses widen
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Business
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Market
Direct Drive Tech and Camsense raise HK$1.76 billion in back-to-back Hong Kong listings, putting the parts inside cheap robots on the market
Date
Sep 30, 2026
Type
Funding
Humanoid shipments jump 432% to nearly 25,000 in the first half as Chinese makers take over 95% of the market, IDC says
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Market
Sharpa brings a touch-covered robot, a lighter 21-joint hand and a haptic glove to IROS, building its own data loop for dexterity
Date
Sep 29, 2026
Type
Product
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers
Date
Sep 17, 2026
Type
Funding
XPeng's IRON humanoid rolls off its first production line after robotics unit raises US$900 million
Date
Sep 8, 2026
Type
Business
Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss
Date
Sep 4, 2026
Type
Funding
UBTech sells 921 full-size humanoids in first half as robot revenue rises 1,445%
Date
Aug 28, 2026
Type
Business
Tsinghua's vision-driven soccer humanoid makes the cover of Science Robotics, trained entirely in simulation
Date
Aug 19, 2026
Type
Research
Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings
Date
Aug 19, 2026
Type
Market
Tesla clears Fremont's Model S and X lines for Optimus and sends its first robots to an in-house academy as quarterly capex jumps to $5.8 billion
Date
Jul 22, 2026
Type
Business
NVIDIA opens Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter world model that plans robot actions on a Jetson Thor
Date
Jul 20, 2026
Type
Product
China expects embodied AI robot output to exceed 100,000 units in 2026, MIIT says
Date
Jul 20, 2026
Type
Policy
RSS 2026's top paper, FlashSAC, cuts humanoid walking training on one GPU from hours to minutes
Date
Jul 17, 2026
Type
Research
Hugging Face ships LeRobot 0.6 with world models and NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7, deepening an open robotics alliance
Date
Jul 7, 2026
Type
Product
ANYbotics opens a Barcelona engineering hub as the Swiss inspection-robot maker builds out AI talent for its ANYmal fleet
Date
Jun 16, 2026
Type
Business
China orders every province and central state firm to put humanoids to work in real sites, targeting 100 use cases and 10,000-unit deployment capacity by end-2026
Date
Jun 8, 2026
Type
Policy
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data
Date
Jun 4, 2026
Type
Research
NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain
Date
Jun 1, 2026
Type
Product
Korea's AI robot alliance reaches 280 members in its first year, with shipyard and refinery humanoids aimed at 2027 and 2028
Date
May 29, 2026
Type
Industry
UBTech lifts its stake in Shenzhen-listed Fenglong to 43% as its RMB1.67 billion move into manufacturing closes
Date
Apr 24, 2026
Type
M&A
A humanoid robot wins Beijing's half marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds, 17 minutes ahead of the fastest human
Date
Apr 19, 2026
Type
Industry
AgiBot says 2025 revenue topped RMB1 billion as it launches the Expedition A3 humanoid and a robot rental network
Date
Apr 17, 2026
Type
Product
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million
Date
Mar 31, 2026
Type
Business
Dobot's embodied AI robot sales jump fivefold to RMB20 million as its cobot business pays for the humanoid push
Date
Mar 30, 2026
Type
Business
AgiBot rolls out its 10,000th humanoid robot, doubling its fleet in 112 days
Date
Mar 30, 2026
Type
Business
RoboSense posts its first quarterly profit as lidar sales to robot makers jump to 303,000 units
Date
Mar 25, 2026
Type
Business
Unitree files for Shanghai STAR Market IPO seeking RMB4.2 billion as 2025 revenue jumps 335%
Date
Mar 20, 2026
Type
Funding
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake
Date
Mar 11, 2026
Type
Funding
Estun lists in Hong Kong at the bottom of its range, raising HK$1.49 billion as China's top-selling robot brand returns to profit
Date
Mar 9, 2026
Type
Market
Galbot raises RMB 2.5 billion as China's Big Fund makes its first embodied AI bet at a RMB 20 billion valuation
Date
Mar 2, 2026
Type
Funding
China publishes its first national standard framework for humanoid robots and embodied AI, with Unitree, AgiBot and UBTech at the table
Date
Feb 28, 2026
Type
Policy
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre
Date
Feb 27, 2026
Type
Business
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system
Date
Feb 2, 2026
Type
Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code
Date
Jan 27, 2026
Type
Research
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive
Date
Jan 6, 2026
Type
M&A
NVIDIA brings Blackwell robot brains down to $1,999 with Jetson T4000 and opens GR00T N1.6 and Cosmos Reason 2 at CES
Date
Jan 5, 2026
Type
Product
FANUC opens its robots to ROS 2 and NVIDIA as a record iREX 2025 turns Tokyo into a physical AI showcase
Date
Dec 3, 2025
Type
Industry
UBTech raises HK$3.1 billion for supply-chain deals a week after its Walker S2 humanoid enters mass delivery
Date
Nov 24, 2025
Type
Funding
Tesla shareholders approve Musk award that pays out only if Tesla delivers 1 million robots or hits other operating goals alongside a market value of up to $8.5 trillion
Date
Nov 6, 2025
Type
Business
AgiBot takes 63.6% of STAR Market-listed Swancor after tender offer, giving the humanoid maker a listed platform for about RMB2 billion
Date
Oct 30, 2025
Type
M&A
Unitree unveils the H2, a 182 cm humanoid with 31 joints and a bionic face, now listed at US$29,900
Date
Oct 20, 2025
Type
Product
Beijing stages the first World Humanoid Robot Games with 280 teams and more than 500 robots, capping a state-run August of robot showcases
Date
Aug 17, 2025
Type
Industry
Fourier unveils GR-3, a 55-joint 'Care-bot' humanoid that takes the rehabilitation specialist into companionship and eldercare
Date
Aug 6, 2025
Type
Product
Unitree launches the R1 humanoid from RMB 39,900, cutting the entry price for a walking robot to 40% of its G1
Date
Jul 25, 2025
Type
Product
Galbot raises RMB 1.1 billion in a round led by CATL and Puquan Capital, lifting two-year funding above RMB 2.4 billion
Date
Jun 24, 2025
Type
Funding
NVIDIA upgrades its humanoid model to GR00T N1.5 at Computex and says world-model video cut a three-month data job to 36 hours
Date
May 19, 2025
Type
Product
Hugging Face buys Bordeaux humanoid maker Pollen Robotics and starts selling its $70,000 open-source Reachy 2
Date
Apr 14, 2025
Type
M&A
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028
Date
Apr 10, 2025
Type
Policy
China writes embodied AI into its Government Work Report for the first time, naming it a future industry
Date
Mar 5, 2025
Type
Policy

Headline	Date	Type
Inside Unitree Robotics, where humanoids now outsell robot dogs but nearly three-quarters go to labs and classrooms	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
Who supplies humanoid robot joints? Japan's Harmonic Drive and Nabtesco, China's Leaderdrive and Germany's Schaeffler lead, while Tesla and Figure build their own	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
Skild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains	Oct 1, 2026	Analysis
What is a vision-language-action (VLA) model, and who is building them?	Oct 1, 2026	Industry
US Army names IHMC's Alex humanoid and four component makers as xTechHumanoid winners	Sep 30, 2026	Policy
Xiaomi-backed robot chip designer Amicro clears Hong Kong listing hearing as sales rise 42% and losses widen	Sep 30, 2026	Business
Service robot sales jump 24% on logistics machines while humanoids sold about 7,000 units in 2025, IFR says	Sep 30, 2026	Market
Direct Drive Tech and Camsense raise HK$1.76 billion in back-to-back Hong Kong listings, putting the parts inside cheap robots on the market	Sep 30, 2026	Funding
Humanoid shipments jump 432% to nearly 25,000 in the first half as Chinese makers take over 95% of the market, IDC says	Sep 29, 2026	Market
Sharpa brings a touch-covered robot, a lighter 21-joint hand and a haptic glove to IROS, building its own data loop for dexterity	Sep 29, 2026	Product
D-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers	Sep 17, 2026	Funding
XPeng's IRON humanoid rolls off its first production line after robotics unit raises US$900 million	Sep 8, 2026	Business
Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss	Sep 4, 2026	Funding
UBTech sells 921 full-size humanoids in first half as robot revenue rises 1,445%	Aug 28, 2026	Business
Tsinghua's vision-driven soccer humanoid makes the cover of Science Robotics, trained entirely in simulation	Aug 19, 2026	Research
Unitree lists on Shanghai's STAR Market after raising RMB6.1 billion at 219 times earnings	Aug 19, 2026	Market
Tesla clears Fremont's Model S and X lines for Optimus and sends its first robots to an in-house academy as quarterly capex jumps to $5.8 billion	Jul 22, 2026	Business
NVIDIA opens Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter world model that plans robot actions on a Jetson Thor	Jul 20, 2026	Product
China expects embodied AI robot output to exceed 100,000 units in 2026, MIIT says	Jul 20, 2026	Policy
RSS 2026's top paper, FlashSAC, cuts humanoid walking training on one GPU from hours to minutes	Jul 17, 2026	Research
Hugging Face ships LeRobot 0.6 with world models and NVIDIA's GR00T N1.7, deepening an open robotics alliance	Jul 7, 2026	Product
ANYbotics opens a Barcelona engineering hub as the Swiss inspection-robot maker builds out AI talent for its ANYmal fleet	Jun 16, 2026	Business
China orders every province and central state firm to put humanoids to work in real sites, targeting 100 use cases and 10,000-unit deployment capacity by end-2026	Jun 8, 2026	Policy
Amazon FAR's OmniRetarget takes ICRA 2026's top paper prize for turning human motion into humanoid training data	Jun 4, 2026	Research
NVIDIA sets a reference humanoid for labs, pairing Unitree's H2 Plus with Sharpa hands and a Jetson Thor brain	Jun 1, 2026	Product
Korea's AI robot alliance reaches 280 members in its first year, with shipyard and refinery humanoids aimed at 2027 and 2028	May 29, 2026	Industry
UBTech lifts its stake in Shenzhen-listed Fenglong to 43% as its RMB1.67 billion move into manufacturing closes	Apr 24, 2026	M&A
A humanoid robot wins Beijing's half marathon in 50 minutes 26 seconds, 17 minutes ahead of the fastest human	Apr 19, 2026	Industry
AgiBot says 2025 revenue topped RMB1 billion as it launches the Expedition A3 humanoid and a robot rental network	Apr 17, 2026	Product
UBTech sells 1,079 full-size humanoids in 2025 as robot revenue rises 22-fold to RMB820.6 million	Mar 31, 2026	Business
Dobot's embodied AI robot sales jump fivefold to RMB20 million as its cobot business pays for the humanoid push	Mar 30, 2026	Business
AgiBot rolls out its 10,000th humanoid robot, doubling its fleet in 112 days	Mar 30, 2026	Business
RoboSense posts its first quarterly profit as lidar sales to robot makers jump to 303,000 units	Mar 25, 2026	Business
Unitree files for Shanghai STAR Market IPO seeking RMB4.2 billion as 2025 revenue jumps 335%	Mar 20, 2026	Funding
Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake	Mar 11, 2026	Funding
Estun lists in Hong Kong at the bottom of its range, raising HK$1.49 billion as China's top-selling robot brand returns to profit	Mar 9, 2026	Market
Galbot raises RMB 2.5 billion as China's Big Fund makes its first embodied AI bet at a RMB 20 billion valuation	Mar 2, 2026	Funding
China publishes its first national standard framework for humanoid robots and embodied AI, with Unitree, AgiBot and UBTech at the table	Feb 28, 2026	Policy
Hyundai pledges 9 trillion won for a Saemangeum hub that pairs a 30,000-robot plant with a 50,000-GPU data centre	Feb 27, 2026	Business
LimX Dynamics raises $200 million Series B as JD and SAIC-backed capital bet on its robot operating system	Feb 2, 2026	Funding
Figure's Helix 02 hands a humanoid's whole body to one neural network, deleting 109,504 lines of control code	Jan 27, 2026	Research
Mobileye pays $900 million for Mentee Robotics, the humanoid start-up chaired by its own chief executive	Jan 6, 2026	M&A
NVIDIA brings Blackwell robot brains down to $1,999 with Jetson T4000 and opens GR00T N1.6 and Cosmos Reason 2 at CES	Jan 5, 2026	Product
FANUC opens its robots to ROS 2 and NVIDIA as a record iREX 2025 turns Tokyo into a physical AI showcase	Dec 3, 2025	Industry
UBTech raises HK$3.1 billion for supply-chain deals a week after its Walker S2 humanoid enters mass delivery	Nov 24, 2025	Funding
Tesla shareholders approve Musk award that pays out only if Tesla delivers 1 million robots or hits other operating goals alongside a market value of up to $8.5 trillion	Nov 6, 2025	Business
AgiBot takes 63.6% of STAR Market-listed Swancor after tender offer, giving the humanoid maker a listed platform for about RMB2 billion	Oct 30, 2025	M&A
Unitree unveils the H2, a 182 cm humanoid with 31 joints and a bionic face, now listed at US$29,900	Oct 20, 2025	Product
Beijing stages the first World Humanoid Robot Games with 280 teams and more than 500 robots, capping a state-run August of robot showcases	Aug 17, 2025	Industry
Fourier unveils GR-3, a 55-joint 'Care-bot' humanoid that takes the rehabilitation specialist into companionship and eldercare	Aug 6, 2025	Product
Unitree launches the R1 humanoid from RMB 39,900, cutting the entry price for a walking robot to 40% of its G1	Jul 25, 2025	Product
Galbot raises RMB 1.1 billion in a round led by CATL and Puquan Capital, lifting two-year funding above RMB 2.4 billion	Jun 24, 2025	Funding
NVIDIA upgrades its humanoid model to GR00T N1.5 at Computex and says world-model video cut a three-month data job to 36 hours	May 19, 2025	Product
Hugging Face buys Bordeaux humanoid maker Pollen Robotics and starts selling its $70,000 open-source Reachy 2	Apr 14, 2025	M&A
Korea forms K-Humanoid Alliance of about 40 groups, targeting a shared robot brain and sub-60kg, 50-joint humanoids by 2028	Apr 10, 2025	Policy
China writes embodied AI into its Government Work Report for the first time, naming it a future industry	Mar 5, 2025	Policy

Data as of Oct 13, 2026

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