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Everything about humanoid robots

Guides, comparisons and analyses to buy, compare and choose the right humanoid robot. Articles by the Botoide editorial team.

TechMarket & industry
7 min

There is no longer a shortage of robots, there is a shortage of Unitree shares

Unitree lists on the STAR Market valued at 60.993 billion yuan, with an initial free float announced at 7.44% of capital, in the very week when we learn that its entry ticket has fallen to 26,900 yuan — against roughly 650,000 in 2023 — and when AgiBot takes the world's top spot from it in shipped volume. The share price is not measuring the scarcity of the robot, it is measuring the scarcity of the paper.

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LifestyleHome & everyday
4 min

This robot comes to clean for $30 an hour and leaves with the video

In San Francisco, Tau Robotics charges a service fee of $30 US dollars per hour for cleaning provided by humanoid robots, by invitation only. Two things the price doesn’t say: the robot is teleoperated, jointly piloted by a human and an artificial intelligence; and it continuously records the entire visit to your home, footage that is used to train the company’s models.

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TechGeopolitics
7 min

Beijing doesn’t discover the demand for robots: it decrees it, with 10,000 units to be delivered before 31 December

On 9 June, the MIIT and SASAC co-signed a quota — 10,000 humanoid robots for commercial use before the end of 2026 — and designated the provinces and state-owned enterprises responsible for its implementation. That same week, China Post, SF Express, Seres and Zoomlion received their robots. The Chinese humanoid demand is not discovered: it is assigned. And it runs on Nvidia.

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TechMarket & industry
5 min

When the shareholder orders a thousand robots from the subsidiary he has just capitalised

On 23 February, AI² Robotics closed a Series B worth more than one billion yuan. But the money came from CRRC, a state-owned railway manufacturer, and from Baidu — the very firms that will deploy the robots. The funding round and the purchase order for 1,000 units are one and the same operation. At that same moment, in the West, Toyota Canada is leasing seven Digit units on a trial basis. Two market structures, not two speeds.

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