Unitree Robotics
Private- HQ
- Hangzhou, China
- Founded
- 2016
- Founders
- Wang Xingxing
- Products
- G1 humanoid, Go2 / B2 quadrupeds
Best known for relatively low-cost quadruped "robot dogs," now also selling the G1 humanoid at roughly $16,000 — among the cheapest humanoids on the market. World's top humanoid seller by units in 2025, with its first profitable year.
Key numbers, at a glance
Funding rounds by amount raised
InfoQ, citing IPO prospectus, Mar 2026
Humanoid units shipped, by year
eeo.com.cn / InfoQ, citing IPO prospectus
Quadruped units shipped, by year
eeo.com.cn / InfoQ, citing IPO prospectus (2023 undisclosed)
Funding
~$252M raised through Series C (June 2025); cleared final CSRC approval on July 3, 2026 for a Shanghai STAR Market IPO targeting ~$619M — not yet trading
Key investors
Tencent, Alibaba, Xiaomi, ByteDance and others
Last checked: 2026-07-06
Vehicle & product lineup
G1 (humanoid)
Photo: Sayanesy, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Go2 (quadruped)
Photo: HotNews Romania (Adi Iacob, Ovidiu Popica), CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
H1 (humanoid)
Photo: Unitree Robotics, official product photo
H2 (humanoid)
Photo: Unitree Robotics, official product photo
R1 (humanoid)
Photo: Unitree Robotics, official product photo
B2-W (wheeled-leg quadruped)
Photo: Unitree Robotics, official product photoProducts & deep dives
Wang Xingxing: The Engineer Behind Unitree
From a self-described "slow" student in a Zhejiang county town to the front row of Xi Jinping's private-enterprise symposium — the career, working philosophy, and wealth of the founder who bet Chinese hardware discipline could out-compete Western humanoid robotics.
The History of Unitree Robotics
From a self-funded student robot dog to a Shanghai STAR Market IPO — how Unitree went from undercutting Boston Dynamics on price to becoming one of the world's top-selling humanoid-robot makers by units, and the controversies that came with it.
Unitree's Humanoid Robots: H1, G1, H2, and R1
From the record-setting H1 to the $16,000 G1 and the $5,900 R1 — how Unitree undercut Tesla, Figure, and Agility on price across four humanoid generations in under three years, and what's still unverified about its most impressive demos.
Unitree's Quadruped Robots: From Laikago to the B2
The robot-dog line that built Unitree — six generations that took quadruped robots from Boston Dynamics-adjacent research hardware to a $1,600 consumer product, and the weaponization controversies that have followed the price down.