{"id":20975,"date":"2026-05-26T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/unitrees-ipo-progress-spurs-stock-buying-of-firms-with-exposure-to-robot-maker\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:26:02","slug":"unitrees-ipo-progress-spurs-stock-buying-of-firms-with-exposure-to-robot-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/unitrees-ipo-progress-spurs-stock-buying-of-firms-with-exposure-to-robot-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Unitree\u2019s IPO progress spurs stock buying of firms with exposure to robot maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"9.5147679324895\">Unitree Robotics&rsquo; progress on its <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">domestic initial public offering<\/span> (IPO) has sparked a buying frenzy of stocks with exposure to the humanoid robot juggernaut, as traders snapped up shares of its pre-IPO investors and business partners.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"8.9328063241107\">Investors were navigating one of the most important <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">thematic investments<\/span> this year after <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Unitree<\/span> took a step closer to a listing on Shanghai&rsquo;s tech-heavy Star Market. Unitree said Monday that the exchange authority would vet its application next week.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"17.188235294118\">Shares of Shanghai Dazhong Public Utilities, a supplier of power and gas, jumped to 6.03 yuan on Tuesday, a 10 per cent increase, the maximum daily swing allowed by the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Shanghai stock exchange<\/span> for companies listed on its main board. Property developer Beijing Capital Development surged 5.2 per cent to 5.02 yuan, while chemical firm Kingfa Science &amp; Technology climbed 5.5 per cent to 18.57 yuan. All three companies earlier disclosed they had invested in Unitree through either subsidiaries or venture funds.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jiangsu Azure Corp and Hunan Meihu Intelligent Manufacturing, two companies involved in Unitree&rsquo;s supply chain, also surged. In sharp contrast, China&rsquo;s benchmark CSI 300 Index ended the day 0.5 per cent higher.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"12.920560747664\">The buying sentiment underscores investors&rsquo; enthusiasm for Unitree, which has grown in visibility after its robots <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">danced and performed martial arts<\/span> at the annual state-sponsored Spring Festival Gala celebrating the Chinese New Year. Investors see China as holding a technological edge in the humanoid robot market compared to Western countries, as the world&rsquo;s largest economies compete to develop cutting-edge technologies.<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">Unitree humanoid robots perform ballet dance moves at AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong on April 18. Photo: Eugene Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"17.177884615385\">&ldquo;The humanoid robotic industry is now at a new moment of moving from technological breakthroughs to scaled commercialisation,&rdquo; said Cai Zilin, an analyst at Wanlian Securities, a Chinese brokerage. &ldquo;With policy support and the <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">AI<\/span> large models, humanoid robots are expected to become an <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">emerging industry<\/span> with huge potential. The year of 2026 is a critical window to corroborate mass production and adoption.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Unitree&rsquo;s IPO progress spurs stock buying of firms with exposure to robot maker<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unitree Robotics&rsquo; progress on its domestic initial public offering (IPO) has sparked a buying frenzy of stocks with exposure to the humanoid robot juggernaut, as traders snapped up shares of its pre-IPO investors and business partners. Investors were navigating one of the most important thematic investments this year after Unitree took a step closer to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/unitrees-ipo-progress-spurs-stock-buying-of-firms-with-exposure-to-robot-maker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Unitree\u2019s IPO progress spurs stock buying of firms with exposure to robot maker&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}