# Unitree targets $9 billion valuation in landmark IPO as humanoid robot race accelerates

> Unitree has become the first mainland China humanoid robot maker to go public, pricing its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at 150.8 yuan a share for a valuation around $9 billion and raising roughly $900 million. Strategic investors in the offering included DeepSeek, an unusual crossover between a hot AI lab and a robotics manufacturer. The numbers behind the listing are striking. Unitree's 2025 revenue topped 1.7 billion yuan, and for the first time its humanoid robot sales outran its long standing quadruped business, a sign that two legged machines are moving from demo videos to real product lines. The company says it shipped more than 5,500 humanoid units last year. The IPO is really a bet on timing. Investors are wagering that better AI models finally make general purpose robots useful, and Unitree is the first pure play they can buy on a mainland exchange. For comparison, analyst valuations of Tesla's still unshipped Optimus swing wildly from $30 billion to $180 billion, which tells you how unsettled this market still is.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: Robotics and Automation News · Published Saturday, August 8, 2026_

## Wortins' read

Unitree has become the first mainland China humanoid robot maker to go public, pricing its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at 150.8 yuan a share for a valuation around $9 billion and raising roughly $900 million. Strategic investors in the offering included DeepSeek, an unusual crossover between a hot AI lab and a robotics manufacturer. The numbers behind the listing are striking. Unitree's 2025 revenue topped 1.7 billion yuan, and for the first time its humanoid robot sales outran its long standing quadruped business, a sign that two legged machines are moving from demo videos to real product lines. The company says it shipped more than 5,500 humanoid units last year. The IPO is really a bet on timing. Investors are wagering that better AI models finally make general purpose robots useful, and Unitree is the first pure play they can buy on a mainland exchange. For comparison, analyst valuations of Tesla's still unshipped Optimus swing wildly from $30 billion to $180 billion, which tells you how unsettled this market still is.

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