China registered 116,000 new humanoid robot companies in the first half of 2026. Not units. Companies. The figure comes from the State Administration for Market Regulation, published on 8 August. New humanoid robot registrations rose 9.5 per cent year on year to 116,000. Across the eight emerging industries and nine future industries the government tracks, … Read more
As Unitree lists at a near 61 billion yuan valuation, Wang Xingxing’s three years of public candour, from ‘we do not do humanoids’ to G1’s price bomb, read as the prospectus of China’s first humanoid stock.
Oaknut Robotics closed an angel round led by China Merchants Venture and NIO Capital, betting on instinct-driven, touch-first manipulation rather than the dominant VLA data-driven path.
Deep Robotics filed its STAR Market IPO reply, seeking 2.502 billion yuan even though its profit comes from quadruped dogs and its humanoid sold just 4 units in two years.
Estun will pay 487 million yuan for 100 per cent of loss-making Cuzhuo at a 901 per cent premium, betting on collaborative and humanoid robots to complete its range.
PaXini has raised a new 1 billion yuan strategic round, taking total funding to 3.5 billion yuan, with a trillion-yuan semiconductor giant and sovereign funds now on the cap table.
China’s planning agency confirmed that eight of every ten humanoid and quadruped robots sold globally are made in China. Unitree filed for a domestic listing on first-half revenue of more than 1.05 billion yuan.
A UC San Diego team teleoperated a Unitree G1 humanoid through laparoscopic gallbladder removal on two live pigs. Nature published it in July 2026. Surgeons scored clinical readiness at 2.5 out of 5.
Tesla, Figure, Boston Dynamics, Agility, Apptronik and 1X now cover the full American humanoid stack. A Chinese industry review sorts them into three routes and shows which one is already earning revenue.
Sales, brand and channel rankings in pool robots are settling fast, but the real technical watershed has barely arrived. Wireless models lowered the barrier to entry and unlocked Amazon, big-box and specialist channels. Early movers built shelf and brand advantages. Latecomers now face not just a product gap but a long channel-validation cycle. Wave Future’s … Read more