Author: Robots Daily
On June 1, 2026, Unitree Robotics passed the IPO review for Shanghai’s STAR Market. Unitree plans to raise about RMB 4.2 billion, roughly $580 million. The proceeds will be used for AI model development, robot hardware R&D, new product commercialization, and production expansion. The IPO application was accepted on March 20, 2026, and cleared review just 73 days later. China’s A-share market is giving hard-tech companies much more attention. In China’s capital market, humanoid robots are starting to sit next to semiconductors, AI, aerospace, and advanced manufacturing as another hard-tech bet. Unitree Has Numbers That Most Robot Startups Still Don’t…
On June 1, during Jensen Huang’s GTC Taipei keynote, Nvidia and Unitree Robotics introduced H2 Plus, a humanoid robot reference design built on Unitree’s H2 body, Nvidia’s Jetson Thor computing platform, and the Isaac GR00T software stack. On the same day, Unitree passed the STAR Market review for its IPO. China’s humanoid robotics sector is under even brighter market attention.H2 Plus is not being pitched as a household robot. The platform is aimed at universities, robotics labs, AI researchers, and developers who need a serious humanoid testbed but may not have the time, money, or engineering resources to build one…
The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026) is underway in Vienna, Austria, running from June 1 to June 5 at the Vienna Congress and Convention Center (VIECON). For researchers, engineers, startups, and robotics companies, ICRA remains one of the industry’s most influential gatherings, offering an early look at technologies that could shape the next generation of real-world robotic systems. This year’s conference covers a broad range of topics, including humanoid robots, robot learning, autonomous systems, medical robotics, perception, manipulation, human-robot interaction, and foundation models for robotics. ICRA 2026 Program Highlights ICRA 2026 opened on June 1…