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Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng has assumed direct leadership of the company’s robotics business, effective immediately, as the EV maker targets mass production of its IRON humanoid robot by the end of 2026 and commercial customer delivery from 2027.
BYD Executive Vice President Stella Li has confirmed the company is developing humanoid robots in-house, with its own EV and battery factories as the first deployment target before a planned consumer rollout through BYD’s existing auto dealer network.
Xiaomi’s humanoid robot demonstrated autonomous grasping of the 17T Pro smartphone and independent volume key operation at the company’s product launch event, following a major CyberOne bionic hand redesign that reduced volume by 60%, increased degrees of freedom by 64%, and expanded tactile sensor coverage to 8,200 square millimeters.
UBTECH Robotics’ YouWorld brand has surpassed 2,110 pre-orders within six days of launching its full-size ultra-bionic humanoid robot on JD.com, with the consumer-facing product targeting emotional companionship and scheduled for official release on June 30.
PaXini Tech, a Chinese haptic technology and humanoid robotics company backed by BYD and JD.com, is considering a Hong Kong IPO and could submit a listing application in the coming months, following a Series B round that valued it at more than 10 billion yuan.
A Barclays report projects the humanoid robotics market could grow from $2-3 billion today to roughly $200 billion by 2035. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son has said embodied AI is where he expects the next trillion-dollar company to emerge.
Unitree Robotics passed its Shanghai STAR Market listing committee review on June 1, clearing the path to registration and issuance as it seeks to raise 4.2 billion yuan, with competitors Leju Robotics and Deep Robotics also advancing toward public listings.
XPENG Chairman He Xiaopeng predicts 2027 will mark the commercialization of mass-produced humanoid robots, as the company convenes a 1,000-person production mobilization meeting and targets mass production by end of 2026 and retail store deployment by Q1 2027.
EngineAI has opened a smart manufacturing facility in Shenzhen’s Honghualing district capable of producing one T800 humanoid robot every 15 minutes, with a second 10,000-unit capacity plant planned for Zhengzhou following a $200 million Series B that valued the company at over $1.4 billion.
China’s National and Local Co-Built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center will open a 5,000 square-meter training facility in Shanghai in July, hosting over 100 robot types from more than a dozen manufacturers to build shared cross-platform training data.
Unitree Robotics has disclosed a 53% drop in adjusted first-quarter profit despite 68% revenue growth, as the company prepares for a Shanghai Stock Exchange IPO listing committee review on June 1 and aims to raise 4.2 billion yuan.
Interact Analysis forecasts annual humanoid robot shipments will exceed 700,000 units by 2035, generating around $15 billion in revenue, with China accounting for over 65% of real-world application shipments and broad commercial viability unlikely before 2032.
Shenzhen-based LimX Dynamics has launched Luna, a 160cm full-size humanoid robot with 27 degrees of freedom priced at 298,000 RMB ($41,000), available now in China with international sales expected in 2027.
Across delivery, medicine, construction, agriculture, and defense, robots are moving from controlled pilots into real-world operations at the same time – a convergence economist Richard Baldwin has called “Globotics”, the combined force of globalization and robotics reshaping how work gets done.
JD.com has announced the world’s first humanoid robot auction as part of its 2026 618 shopping festival campaign, with Unitree Robotics and Noetix Robotics among companies already integrated into JD’s JoyInside robotics platform.