{
  "id": 19265,
  "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/china-humanoid-robots-unitree-ipo-tesla-optimus.html",
  "title": "China built robots that can do backflips – but can they make money?",
  "summary": "Unitree’s IPO will gauge investors’ appetite for a technology that has yet to prove its commercial viability amid intensifying geopolitical tensions.",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-14T05:00:47.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-14T05:10:49.168Z",
  "source_slug": "x-cnbc-technology",
  "source_name": "CNBC Technology",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.cnbc.com/technology/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19265",
  "original_url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/14/china-humanoid-robots-unitree-ipo-tesla-optimus.html",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}