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Chinese robotics giant Unitree soars in stock market debut
The world's biggest humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics made its stock market debut in Shanghai on Wednesday, with its shares soaring by more than 600%. In the highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO), the firm's shares opened at 1,100…
How U.S. military funding propelled China's robot dogs
China's Unitree Robotics — among the world's biggest producers of humanoid and quadruped robots — based designs for its most successful robot dogs on innovations funded by the U.S. military, according to a former U.S. defense…
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a new robotics startup
Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of the self-driving industry, is working on a new robotics startup called Dulo. He revealed the new venture at the end of a keynote speech at Actuate, a robotics conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. 'I am not…
Humanoid resources: China's robots search for workforce breakthrough
A horde of schoolchildren watched excitedly as a diminutive humanoid tour guide named Wuji welcomed them to a robot school in eastern China, gesticulating theatrically as it described the institute's aspiration to train the mechanical workforce of…
Unitree Robotics surges 629% to US$66 billion valuation in Shanghai share debut
Shares of Unitree Robotics surged 629 per cent above their initial public offering price to open at 1,100 yuan in their Shanghai trading debut on Wednesday, giving China's best-known humanoid robot maker a market capitalisation of about 445 billion…
Humanoid Robot Maker Unitree Pops an Outrageous 629% in Trading Debut
Gizmodo is not an international finance blog, so I can't really tell you how unprecedented this is for the IPO of a Hangzhou, China-based company debuting on Shanghai's STAR Market, but Unitree's stock just skyrocketed by 629% on its first day of…
Chinese coastguard proposes turning South China Sea isles into robotic fortress
The South China Sea's contested islands could be transformed into autonomous, robotic fortresses, according to a defence proposal by the Chinese coastguard. The plan, which was detailed in a Chinese-language journal supervised by the state-run…
'Most American' Robot Doesn't Yet Pass FCC 65% Made-In-America Rules
The Matic Cues robot vacuum that takes voice and gestural commands. Matic is a pretty amazing robot. It also happens to clean your house. Point at a coffee spill on the kitchen floor, say “Hey Matic, clean this,” and the robot turns…
Beyond marathons and backflips, China's robots face a commercial test
By Eduardo Baptista and Laurie Chen BEIJING, Aug 18 (Reuters) - China's humanoid robot makers have spent the past two years dazzling investors with machines that can breakdance, throw punches and even set marathon records. This week in Beijing…
Unitree unveils a robot it says can run faster than Usain Bolt ahead of its IPO
China's humanoid robots have mastered kung fu, boxing, and serving your coffee — and now they're leaving the world's fastest man in the dust. Unitree, a Chinese robotics firm that is set to go public at a $9 billion valuation on Wednesday…
Why China's First Humanoid Robot IPO Has Investors in a Frenzy
Robots built to move, work and act like humans. It's a global industry Morgan Stanley estimates could be worth $5 trillion by 2050. It's also one of the frontiers in the China-US race for technological supremacy. Chinese investors, ranging from…
CNBC Daily Open: Robots rising, tariff turnaround and yield nerves
Humanoid robot maker Unitree shares spike on its debut day, surging around 500% during the session. The IPO was massively oversubscribed, drawing interest from AI group DeepSeek. U.S. President Donald Trump presses pause on 50% tariffs on Canadian…
Shares in Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree soar in Shanghai trading debut
Shares of Unitree, one of China's largest humanoid robot makers, initially soared as much as 629% in its public stock trading debut Wednesday in Shanghai, in the latest highlight of investor optimism over China's technological advances. The…
China's Unitree Soars in Debut as Investors Bet Big on Robotics
Chinese humanoid-robot maker Unitree surged in its trading debut as investors snapped up shares of a company seen as a champion of Beijing's push to dominate robotics. Unitree, which just showcased a robot that broke world records for jumping and…
Department of Homeland Security Seeking Humanoid Robots to Patrol Southern Border
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech When Donald Trump ascended to office for the second time, he promised to deploy an arsenal of high-tech surveillance gadgetry on the already dystopian US-Mexico border. At that…
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