{
  "id": 18636,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/tech-trends/article/3363659/unitree-ipo-deluge-masks-humanoid-robots-limitations",
  "title": "Unitree IPO deluge masks humanoid robots’ limitations",
  "summary": "Unitree Robotics’ Shanghai initial public offering (IPO) was more than 5,500 times oversubscribed by retail investors as optimism about fast stock gains and Chinese robot demand outweighed concerns about a US import ban. The 6.1 billion yuan (US$900 million) share sale drew 9.8 million orders from individual investors, the robot maker said in a statement on Monday. Just 0.018 per cent of orders will be fulfilled, even after the Hangzhou-based company boosted the number of retail shares by half..",
  "authors": "Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-11T09:05:41.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-12T05:10:43.828Z",
  "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/18636",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/tech-trends/article/3363659/unitree-ipo-deluge-masks-humanoid-robots-limitations",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}