Chinese Humanoid Robot Companies

China shipped most of the world’s humanoid robots in 2025. Here are the companies, from Unitree and UBTECH to AgiBot, and why they lead.

China shipped the large majority of the world’s humanoid robots in 2025, and the reasons are structural, not accidental. A deep Shenzhen hardware supply chain lets firms prototype in days. Government support is coordinated and heavy. And the strategy is volume and low price rather than chasing perfect autonomy first.

The leaders are Unitree and AgiBot. Unitree, founded in 2016 in Hangzhou, shipped over 5,500 humanoids in 2025, grew revenue to roughly 1.7 billion yuan that year as humanoids overtook quadrupeds as its main business, and cleared its Shanghai STAR Market IPO review on June 1, 2026, set to become China’s first listed pure-play humanoid maker. AgiBot, founded in 2023, reported over 5,100 units and 140 million dollars-plus in revenue in 2025 and rolled out its 10,000th robot in early 2026. UBTECH, public in Hong Kong, put the Walker S2 into mass production for factory work. Behind them sit Fourier, Galbot, EngineAI, Booster, and a growing field of newer names.

The competitive edge is price. The Unitree G1 starts around 16,000 dollars and the R1 is reported near 5,900, numbers Western makers cannot match today. That low cost also feeds a data advantage, since more robots in the field means more training data. The open questions are security, since researchers have flagged data-collection concerns with some Chinese robots, and whether the supply chains for Western and Chinese humanoids end up permanently separated.