Tour of Unitree factory, bullish on West
The gist
KAIKAKU co-founder Josef Chen toured Unitree's Hangzhou factory and found its humanoids still mostly hand-built.
He argues the robots that make robots will be Western, not Chinese.
How it unfolded
- Mar 11, 2025Semianalysis reported China's robotics localization was well underway, with local firms approaching a 50% market share versus 30% in 2020, and called the Unitree G1 the only viable humanoid on the market.
- Jun 1, 2025Unitree closed a Series C round of 97.36M USD.
- 2025Unitree made almost 32,000 robots, including about 26,000 robot dogs, more than the roughly 20,000 IDC reckons the whole world shipped the year before.