{
  "id": 17294,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363251/backed-deepseek-unitree-ipo-tests-investor-appetite-chinas-ai-robotics-boom",
  "title": "Backed by DeepSeek, Unitree IPO tests investor appetite for China’s AI robotics boom",
  "summary": "The long-awaited initial public offering of Unitree Robotics, which values the Hangzhou-based firm at 60.99 billion yuan (US$9 billion), is set to serve as a valuation benchmark for China’s booming embodied-AI sector, buoyed by retail investor excitement and high-profile AI backers like DeepSeek. Widely billed as “mainland China’s first humanoid stock”, Unitree has priced its IPO on Shanghai’s Star Market at 150.8 yuan per share, according to a filing released Thursday evening. The firm will...",
  "authors": "Wency Chen",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": "deepseek",
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T04:23:35.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17294",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363251/backed-deepseek-unitree-ipo-tests-investor-appetite-chinas-ai-robotics-boom",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}