{
  "id": 18234,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363570/unitree-ipo-frenzy-leaves-chinese-retail-investors-1-5500-odds",
  "title": "Unitree IPO frenzy leaves Chinese retail investors with 1-in-5,500 odds",
  "summary": "While Unitree Robotics’ early backers are poised for a windfall in one of China’s most closely watched technology initial public offerings (IPOs), retail investors are scrambling for a tiny chance of securing shares. Nearly 9.8 million accounts competed in the Hangzhou-based robot maker’s online subscription process on Monday, fighting for just 9.7 million shares, its filings in the evening showed. The final online allocation rate was just 0.018 per cent – roughly one winning lot for every 5,500",
  "authors": "Wency Chen",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-11T01:00:09.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-11T05:10:37.351Z",
  "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/18234",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363570/unitree-ipo-frenzy-leaves-chinese-retail-investors-1-5500-odds",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}