Humanoid deployments, product launches and robot learning

The Shanghai Stock Exchange scheduled review of Unitree’s proposed IPO for June 1, naming the company in its May 25 listing-committee meeting notice. At this edition’s May 27 cutoff, the meeting was still ahead and the notice did not establish approval or completed fundraising.

Unitree supplies quadruped robots and bipedal humanoids, including G1 and H1, used by developers and research teams to test locomotion and embodied-AI systems. The scheduled hearing advances its proposed public listing through the exchange’s review process. A reported target valuation is separate from capital raised and is not an offering result.

DEEP Robotics’ proposed STAR Market listing was accepted on May 18 and entered the inquiry stage on May 27. The exchange’s project record lists RMB2.503 billion in proposed fundraising and China Securities as sponsor. These are application milestones and a fundraising target, with no completed offering at this edition’s cutoff.

The company supplies legged robots for industrial inspection and work in difficult terrain, alongside its developing humanoid systems. A public-market financing would support further embodied-intelligence research, robot hardware and solutions, and industrialisation of its products. The application adds a potential financing route for that development and production programme.

Leju Robotics submitted a ChiNext IPO application proposing RMB2.6 billion in fundraising, with Orient Securities as sponsor. The application-stage prospectus explicitly states that exchange and securities-regulator procedures remain outstanding, so the target is not completed funding.

The company develops humanoid hardware, motion control and decision-making systems. Its prospectus reports 577 Kuavo-series robots sold in 2025, with uses spanning research, commercial services, data collection and industrial manufacturing. Proposed proceeds would fund a production base, an embodied-intelligence research centre, large-scale datasets, sales networks and working capital.

Figure signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands to introduce humanoids into its distribution and logistics network, beginning at the Reno, Nevada Distribution Logistics Center. The initial work targets physically demanding supply-chain tasks at a retailer whose portfolio includes JCPenney, Aéropostale and Brooks Brothers.

The agreement creates a route from warehouse demonstrations into a named customer’s operations. Brookfield is an investor in Figure and a backer of Catalyst, providing a commercial connection between the companies. Figure did not disclose a robot count or deployment timetable in the announcement, so the agreement should not be read as a delivered fleet figure.

Astribot announced T1, a semi-humanoid service-robot platform starting at CNY89,900. The company’s launch post describes cable-driven manipulation, human-like dexterity and customisable AI computing, positioning the robot for vision-language-action models and service applications.

The platform gives developers hardware on which to build manipulation behaviours and adapt computing to their chosen models. The launch establishes the announced starting price and product positioning, without supplying task-success measurements or confirming a customer deployment.

LimX Dynamics introduced Luna, a full-size interactive humanoid intended for shopping malls, theme parks, exhibitions and brand events. The 160 cm robot has 27 body degrees of freedom, excluding end effectors, and uses the company’s System 0 whole-body motion model to coordinate movement.

The platform supports learning motions from video, a no-code task editor and synchronised control of multiple robots. Those tools let operators create and update performances and interaction programmes for commercial spaces. The announcement introduces a product and its content tools; it does not establish a fleet of customer deployments.

Eden Robotics recorded Eden I as designed, manufactured and operational on May 23, saying development took one and a half months. The milestone followed its Theta OS v0.2.1 software going live on the first demonstration robot on April 3.

The company is developing robot hardware and software for autonomous industrial services, with Eden I presented as an early semi-humanoid platform. The update documents completion of an operational prototype; it does not identify a customer installation or establish commercial production volumes.

Twolabs introduced Tobi, a semi-humanoid robot under development for nursing homes and senior-living communities. Its intended applications include feeding, dressing, medication reminders, fetching objects, walking support, wayfinding and companionship. The company reported that its prototype design was complete while the AI system remained in active development.

Twolabs is building the hardware alongside vision-language-action models and a social-interaction layer. Its aim is to combine physical assistance with conversation and support for residents, reducing repetitive work for care staff. These are planned capabilities and applications, rather than demonstrated care deployments.

EngineAI opened its Honghualing manufacturing base in Shenzhen and announced the first batch of T800 humanoids leaving the production line. Original reporting on May 22 quotes the company describing a 12,000-square-metre facility and a line capable of completing a robot every 15 minutes.

The base brings incoming-material inspection, component assembly and testing, final integration, shipment and after-sales maintenance into one manufacturing operation. EngineAI was also planning a separate 10,000-unit-scale line at Zhengzhou Yunzhi Science Park. The Shenzhen opening establishes a production site and initial batch, while the Zhengzhou line remains a capacity plan.

AGIBOT introduced BFM-2, a two-stage Motion-Between model for robot motion control. The model is intended to generate stable transitions and execute closed-loop movement from different initial conditions, including static poses, preset motions and randomly supplied states.

Company demonstrations showed a robot getting up after being knocked to the floor and restoring its balance. These demonstrations illustrate the model’s intended role in recovery and continuous motion control, giving higher-level task systems a movement foundation that can respond to disturbances. The announcement does not provide an independently measured recovery success rate.

Researchers published Any2Any, a method for transferring humanoid whole-body tracking policies between robot designs. It first aligns the source and target robots’ kinematics so an existing policy can be reused, then applies parameter-efficient fine-tuning to selected modules to adapt to differences in physical dynamics.

The paper reports transferring Sonic policies pretrained on Unitree G1 to LimX Oli and Luna using 1% of the compute and data required for training from scratch, with competitive or better tracking performance in its experiments. The result concerns motion tracking across the tested robots and policies, giving developers a way to reuse learned movement when introducing another robot body.

Hugging Face researchers released LeRobot Humanoid, an experimental bipedal platform costing approximately $2,500 in parts, depending on sourcing, shipping and taxes. The release includes printable hardware, a bill of materials, wiring and assembly instructions, simulation assets and software for calibrating and controlling the physical robot.

Identification tools replay real robot data and fit simulator parameters, while MJLab environments support training and evaluating locomotion policies. The project connects building, simulation, data collection and real-world control in a reproducible research platform. Its initial hardware release focuses on the bipedal lower body, with upper-body integration and more advanced behaviours on the roadmap.

Booster Robotics had announced nearly RMB1 billion in financing on April 17, jointly led by Beijing’s high-technology industry fund, Jingguosheng Fund and Huakong Fund, with existing investors increasing their backing. The capital supports global robot delivery and further development of the company’s humanoid technology.

Its research and education programme uses humanoid robots for control development, embodied-intelligence experiments and robot football. The company’s April activity also included a bipedal robot completing the Yizhuang half-marathon, providing an endurance test alongside its laboratory and competition work. The financing supplies background to that development programme and predates this edition’s reporting period.