China's flagship robotics expo opened Aug 20 with humanoid robots boxing, dancing, and demonstrating industrial and even battlefield-adjacent applications, alongside major exhibitors including Xiaomi's first humanoid reveal. It's the clearest annual snapshot of how fast Chinese robotics is moving from lab demos to real deployment partnerships.
The Meituan-backed industrial vision-guided robotics maker is set to open its order book for a roughly $300 million Hong Kong listing, with a debut expected in early September. It extends the wave of Chinese robotics IPOs following Unitree, reinforcing Hong Kong's emergence as the go-to
Humanoid · Event · Beijing Faster than Bolt, higher than the world record: inside the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games Over five days in Beijing, more than 2,000 humanoid robots ran, jumped, boxed and played football. Two of them beat marks that took humans a century to set. Here's
Robot Hive · Defense Desk Pocket version Defense · Autonomous Systems · Anduril Industries The unfair fight A homeschooled VR prodigy sold Oculus at 21, was pushed out of Facebook at 24, and then built a $61-billion defense company, a national bank, and an arsenal that spans air, sea, land and spectrum.
Unitree has raised 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million) in its IPO, according their prospectus. Shares rose to 968.1 yuan apiece, after hitting as high as 1,100 yuan/share.