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  "id": "unitree-robotics",
  "title": "Unitree Robotics",
  "lang": "en",
  "source_lang": "en",
  "summary": "Hangzhou-based Chinese maker of quadruped and humanoid robots; listed on Shanghai's STAR Market in 2026.",
  "category": "technology",
  "subcategory": "engineering",
  "type": "organization",
  "aliases": [
    "Unitree",
    "Hangzhou Unitree Technology Co., Ltd.",
    "宇树科技"
  ],
  "generated_at": "2026-10-16",
  "model": "pro/claude-haiku-5-5",
  "url": "https://aiwiki.page/en/unitree-robotics/",
  "translations": {
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      "url": "https://aiwiki.page/zh/unitree-robotics/",
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  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "",
      "text": "Unitree Robotics (宇树科技) is a Chinese robotics company based in Hangzhou, China. It designs, manufactures and sells legged robots, humanoid robots and robotic arms for consumers, researchers and industrial customers. The company became widely known for low-priced quadruped (\"robot dog\") machines and later for humanoid robots, and in 2026 it became one of the first listed pure-play humanoid robot companies."
    },
    {
      "heading": "History",
      "text": "Founded by Wang Xingxing in August 2016, Unitree initially specialized in quadruped robots for the consumer market. Wang had built an early quadruped prototype during his studies. On 26 August 2016, Wang Xingxing registered and established \"Hangzhou Unitree Technology Co., Ltd.\" in a 50-square-metre office in Binjiang District, Hangzhou. His first quadruped, the XDog, was developed in 2016 for his master's thesis. The robotic dog became an Internet sensation which attracted buyers and investors.\n\nThe company's own materials claim that it was the first company in the world to publicly retail high-performance quadruped robots, and that it took part in the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala and the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics. These are company claims rather than independently verified facts.\n\nThe humanoid line began in 2023. The H1 was first introduced in 2023 and made famous in a number of videos demonstrating its balancing and walking capabilities. The G1, a smaller and cheaper successor, was unveiled at ICRA 2024. In 2026 the H2 became the flagship humanoid: one price guide notes that H2 replaced H1 as Unitree's flagship humanoid in 2026 at a far lower entry price."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Products",
      "text": "The product range spans several categories:\n\n- Quadrupeds. The Go series, including the Go2, is the company's volume product line. Its low price has made it popular with universities and laboratories. Their Go series quadrupeds and H1 / G1 humanoids are widely used in universities and reinforcement-learning labs precisely because they pair credible hardware with approachable price points.\n- Humanoids. The G1 is the most common of these in research settings. It is list priced at $16,000 (base configuration) whereas the H1 has a base price of $90,000 at launch. Current prices differ by source and configuration. The company's own store lists the G1 from $13.5K, while US resellers have quoted $21,600 in the US as of August 2026, and one guide notes that the earlier $16,000 figure still gets repeated by articles and AI summaries that have not been updated.\n- Large and high-end machines. The company has also shown a human-carrying mobility machine, the GD01, which a 2026 profile described as one of its newer directions. A native of China's coastal city of Ningbo, he founded Unitree in 2016 when he was just 26 years old and has moved from robot dogs to humanoid robots and now, with GD01, human mobility machines."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Technology",
      "text": "Unitree states that it makes most of the key components of its robots in-house. The motor, reducer, controller, complete machine structure, and most of the sensors of the quadruped robot have been independently developed. The G1, for example, utilizes a configuration of 23 to 43 permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) rotary joint actuators capable of peak knee torque ratings between 90 N.m and 120 N.m depending on the variant.\n\nSoftware and AI are a growing part of the company's work. Its GitHub organization publishes open models for robot learning. One is a 6-billion-parameter humanoid foundation model, UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, and another is a Vision–Language–Action (VLA) large model in the UnifoLM series, designed for general-purpose humanoid robot manipulation. The H2 is slated to use Nvidia hardware: In June, Nvidia announced that its bleeding-edge Jetson Thor chip would be fitted into Unitree's H2 humanoid for sale to research institutions around the globe."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Market position",
      "text": "Unitree's shipment volumes are among the largest in the sector. Unitree is the world leader in terms of volume, dispatching more than 5,500 units in 2025, comprising over a quarter of a global market that is only just waking. The company's IPO prospectus, as summarized by one tracker, puts its unit share at 32.4% share of unit shipments. The two figures differ, and the sector's market-size data are still developing."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Listing on the STAR Market",
      "text": "Unitree's listing plans have moved quickly. The Hangzhou-based legged-robot maker filed its IPO prospectus on March 20, 2026, seeking to raise about ¥4.2 billion. Unitree Robotics has won approval from China's securities regulator for an initial public offering on Shanghai's STAR Market. The China Securities Regulatory Commission said on Thursday that it had received the Shanghai Stock Exchange's review opinion and Unitree's registration documents. The review reportedly took 104 days, the fastest in STAR Market history.\n\nThe company reported 2025 revenue of 1.69 billion yuan, up from 123 million in 2022. Another source gives 2025 revenue of ¥1.708 billion, up 335% year-on-year; gross margin reached 60.27%. The prospectus also forecasts lower profit: profit excluding non-recurring items of RMB236–283 million, a decline of approximately 6.4%–22.0%.\n\nThe offering was priced in early August 2026. Unitree priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO on August 6, 2026 at 150.80 yuan (about $22.30) per share, issuing roughly 40.44 million shares to raise about 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) at a valuation near 61 billion yuan ($9.04 billion). One IPO-tracking website reports that Unitree began trading on Shanghai's STAR Market on August 19, 2026. That claim comes from a single secondary source and could not be cross-checked against exchange disclosures, so it should be treated with caution."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Governance",
      "text": "According to one profile, Wang Xingxing 68.8% voting control of the company. This figure also comes from a secondary source."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Controversies and limitations",
      "text": "Several issues attach to the company's public profile:\n\n- Price and performance claims. Headline prices, performance figures and shipment shares come largely from company materials, press reports and resellers, which often disagree. The G1 price history in particular shows the gap between launch prices, direct-from-factory prices and reseller prices.\n- Valuation and profitability. The IPO valuation has been much higher than earlier funding rounds, and the prospectus forecasts lower profit in the period it covers. Investors and commentators have debated whether the valuation is justified.\n- Geopolitics. Humanoid and legged robots are increasingly subject to trade measures. One report describes the imposition of new restrictions on foreign-made humanoid and four-legged robots — and Beijing responding with export curbs and sanctions on selected U.S. entities. The company's role in these disputes is part of wider competition between China and the United States in robotics and artificial intelligence.\n- Research use and safety. Low-cost humanoids have spread quickly into laboratories, which raises questions about safe operation and the responsible release of control software. The company's own guidance asks users to operate its robots in a Friendly and Safe manner."
    },
    {
      "heading": "See also",
      "text": "- Robotics\n- Humanoid robot\n- Stock"
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    "hangzhou",
    "china",
    "artificial-intelligence",
    "robotics",
    "humanoid-robot",
    "stock-finance"
  ],
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      "title": "Unitree Robotics",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitree_Robotics"
    },
    {
      "title": "Unitree Robotics",
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    },
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    },
    {
      "title": "Humanoid robot G1_Humanoid Robot Functions_Humanoid Robot Price",
      "url": "https://www.unitree.com/g1/"
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      "title": "Unitree Prices 2026: Every Configuration, Not Just Base Models",
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    },
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      "title": "China’s Unitree Robotics Is Leading the Humanoid Revolution",
      "url": "https://time.com/article/2026/07/23/unitree-china-human-robotics/"
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      "title": "Unitree Robotics",
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      "url": "https://github.com/unitreerobotics"
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  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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