Dobot, the collaborative-robot maker that sells the most units in the world by volume, is one step from China’s ChiNext board. The Shenzhen exchange has scheduled its initial public offering for a listing committee hearing on 22 July, less than three months after the application was accepted.
The path to the hearing was fast. Dobot listed in Hong Kong in December 2024 as the first Greater Bay Area H-share to return to the A market. Its IPO tutoring finished in April 2026, and just 17 days after the ChiNext reform document landed, its application was accepted.
Rival Jaka Robot terminated its own STAR Market bid in December 2025, which leaves Dobot as the one closest to the line and a strong candidate for the title of first A-share collaborative robot stock.
Dobot plans to raise 1.2 billion yuan. By priority, 550 million goes to multi-legged robot research and industrialisation, 250 million to a humanoid robot upgrade, 100 million to marketing, and the remaining 300 million to working capital.
The two capital rounds complement each other. The Hong Kong IPO raised a net 681 million Hong Kong dollars, later topped up by two H-share placements worth about 1.8 billion Hong Kong dollars, aimed at embodied intelligence research. Together they form a funding base running from collaborative robots up to humanoid and multi-legged embodied systems.
Editor’s note: This is an adapted translation of the original OFweek report. It has been trimmed and restructured for readability for an international business audience. Source: OFweek.