Unitree Robotics

01 · About

Founded 2016

Founders

Wang Xingxing (王兴兴)
Founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics. A Shanghai University graduate who began working on the XDog quadruped robot as a student (the project won second place in the Shanghai Robot Design Competition with a CNY 80,000 prize). He founded Unitree in 2016 using that prize as seed capital.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

5 areas · 5 technologies · 6 industries

What they do5Areas

Humanoid robots
Industrial robots
Embodied AI
Autonomous systems
AI hardware

How they do it5Technologies

Robotics
Embodied AI
Reinforcement Learning
Computer vision
Edge AI

Who for6Industries

Robotics
Research & science
Education
Industrial manufacturing
Defense & security
Media & entertainment

03 · Geography

Global presence

1 offices · 3 regions

ChinaAsiaGlobal

04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2016 · Series C

2016founded

Four announced funding rounds: Angel/Seed 2016 (CNY 80,000 from the Shanghai Robot Design Competition prize), Series A 2020 (amount undisclosed), Series B 2022 (amount undisclosed), Series C 2025 at a USD 1.7B valuation led by China Mobile, Tencent, and Alibaba. 2025 revenue: ~USD 140M (CNY 1B). IPO tutoring completed November 2025, targeting the Shanghai STAR Market at up to USD 7B valuation in 2026.total funding

Series Clatest round

growthdevelopment stage

activestatus

Four announced funding rounds: Angel/Seed 2016 (CNY 80,000 from the Shanghai Robot Design Competition prize), Series A 2020 (amount undisclosed), Series B 2022 (amount undisclosed), Series C 2025 at a USD 1.7B valuation led by China Mobile, Tencent, and Alibaba. 2025 revenue: ~USD 140M (CNY 1B). IPO tutoring completed November 2025, targeting the Shanghai STAR Market at up to USD 7B valuation in 2026.

total funding

4 · 2016–2025

Angel / SeedJanuary 2016

Series AJanuary 2020

Series BJanuary 2022

Series CJune 2025

05 · Portfolio

Products & solutions

9 robots

Unitree B1

Unitree B1 industrial quadruped: 50 kg, IP68 waterproof, 20 kg continuous payload (80 kg max standing), 5 h stand / 2 h walk endurance, Intel i5-1135G7 + 3× Jetson Xavier NX, 5× Intel RealSense D430.

Unitree B2

Unitree industrial quadruped robot with IP67 rating. 60 kg, 40 kg continuous / 120 kg static payload, 6 m/s top speed, 12 DOF.

Unitree G1

Bipedal humanoid robot by Unitree Robotics, designed as a compact research, development, and developer platform.

Unitree Go1

Unitree Go1 consumer quadruped: 12 kg, top speed 17 km/h (4.7 m/s), 12 joint motors, SSS 5× fisheye binocular vision system, 16-core AI CPU + GPU, from USD 2700 (Air).

Unitree Go2

Unitree consumer/educational quadruped robot with 4D LiDAR. 15 kg, 3.7-5 m/s top speed, GPT integration. Air/Pro/EDU variants from USD 1,600.

Unitree H1

Full-size general-purpose humanoid (~180 cm, ~47 kg). Bipedal, 5 DOF per leg, 3.3 m/s walking speed, 360° perception via 3D LiDAR + depth camera, Unitree M107 PMSM joint motors (~360 N·m peak knee torque).

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Unitree H1-2

Unitree H1-2 full-size humanoid (~178 cm, ~70 kg) — second-gen H1 with 27 DOF, 7-DOF arms (685 mm), 3-DOF wrists and optional Dex5-1 hands. Unitree M107 PMSM motors (knee ~360 N·m), Intel i5+i7 compute.

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Unitree H2

Unitree H2 – advanced 180 cm, 70 kg humanoid with 31 DOF, 360 N·m torque, PMSM joints, Intel i5/i7 + optional Jetson AGX Thor (2070 TOPS). WiFi 6, BT 5.2. From $29,900.

Unitree H2 Plus

Full-size Unitree humanoid (182 cm, ~70 kg) in the Plus variant featuring an NVIDIA Jetson Thor T5000 onboard compute module (2070 TFLOPS FP4) and Sharpa Wave dexterous hands (75 total DOF).

06 · Relations

Organizational relations

2 strategic relations · 6 brands

Strategic relations

2

strategic_investor
competitor

07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

3 classification · 4 external links

Classification

Statusactive
Development stagegrowth
Organization typeRobotics company+ Hardware vendor, + Startup

External links

08 · Related content

Articles

5 articles

News6 May 2026

The humanoid dilemma: Chinese robots in the US — espionage risk or essential hardware?

Unitree G1 at $13,500 is flooding US labs, but experts warn of data exfiltration risks. The dilemma: China makes the cheapest hardware, the US wants to build the AI brains. The American Security Robotics Act attempts to resolve this.

News4 May 2026

Japan Airlines Launches Humanoid Robot Pilot at Haneda Airport — Unitree G1 and Walker E Go Operational

Japan Airlines is launching a two-year humanoid robot pilot at Haneda Airport in May 2026. The Unitree G1 and UBTech Walker E will handle baggage loading and cabin cleaning to address Japan's ground handling labor shortage.

News30 April 2026

Unitree Expands R1 Line with Dual-Arm Platform Starting at $4,290

Unitree Robotics has launched the Dual-Arm Humanoid Robot series, a modular dual-arm platform in fixed and wheeled configurations starting at $4,290. The pricing targets AI researchers and developers building embodied intelligence systems.