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Vbot, May 11: 500-Million-Yuan Pre-A ($73M), 500 Robotic Dogs Already Shipping, Production Ramping to 2,500/Month in June — the Chinese Humanoid Playbook Is to Fund the Humanoid With a Dog That Already Works Robotics

Vbot, May 11: 500-Million-Yuan Pre-A ($73M), 500 Robotic Dogs Already Shipping, Production Ramping to 2,500/Month in June — the Chinese Humanoid Playbook Is to Fund the Humanoid With a Dog That Already Works

Vbot — a Shanghai embodied-AI startup founded in late 2024 by ex-Horizon Robotics and ex-Li Auto leadership — closed a ~500M yuan ($73M) Pre-A on May 11 with a shipping commercial product (the BoBo robotic dog) already running 500 units and scaling to 2,500/month in June. The humanoid roadmap is funded by the dog.

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#vbot#china-humanoid#embodied-ai
Unitree's UniStore Goes Live May 7: World's First Humanoid Robot App Store, 24 Motion Apps at Launch, G1-Compatible, Two Weeks After the $3,949 R1 — The 「App Store for Bipeds」 Is No Longer a Joke Robotics

Unitree's UniStore Goes Live May 7: World's First Humanoid Robot App Store, 24 Motion Apps at Launch, G1-Compatible, Two Weeks After the $3,949 R1 — The 「App Store for Bipeds」 Is No Longer a Joke

On May 7 Unitree opened UniStore, billed as the world's first humanoid robot task-and-action app store, with 24 motion apps available at launch — including dancing, boxing, striding, plus Jackson dance moves, Jeet Kune Do, and Charleston — installable to a Unitree G1 in one tap. It arrives one week after the $3,949 R1 and one day after Unitree's $610M Shanghai IPO filing — the cleanest signal yet that the humanoid market is being shaped from the consumer-app side first, not the factory side.

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#unitree#unistore#g1
Morgan Stanley's May 7 China Humanoid Survey: 150 Companies, 14,000 Units in 2025, 23% Buyer Satisfaction — and a 「Critical-Year Shake-out」 Already Telegraphed for 2026 Robotics

Morgan Stanley's May 7 China Humanoid Survey: 150 Companies, 14,000 Units in 2025, 23% Buyer Satisfaction — and a 「Critical-Year Shake-out」 Already Telegraphed for 2026

On May 7 Morgan Stanley published its China humanoid-robot industry survey: 150+ vendors, 14,000 units delivered in 2025, 62% intent-to-adopt within 3 years, but only 23% buyer satisfaction and a 200,000-RMB (~$28k) price ceiling 92% of buyers say must crack before mass adoption.

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#morgan-stanley#china#humanoid-robots
Robotera's May 8 $200M Round: SF Group and China Post Aren't Just Investors — They're the Pilot Customers, and the Q2 Run Rate Just Crossed a Thousand Units Robotics

Robotera's May 8 $200M Round: SF Group and China Post Aren't Just Investors — They're the Pilot Customers, and the Q2 Run Rate Just Crossed a Thousand Units

On May 8 Beijing-based humanoid maker Robotera closed >USD $200M led by SF Group (顺丰), with HSG, IDG Capital, Hillhouse, CICC Capital, and ICBC Capital piling on. The bigger signal sits underneath the cap-table line: Robotera's robots are already running across 10+ China Post and SF logistics centers, deliveries crossed a thousand units in Q2, and growth is reportedly +300%.

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#robotera#sf-group#china-post
Nyobolt's $1B Unicorn Round: Symbotic Led the May 6 Series C Because Battery Charge Time Just Became the Real TAM Constraint for Warehouse Robots and Humanoids Robotics

Nyobolt's $1B Unicorn Round: Symbotic Led the May 6 Series C Because Battery Charge Time Just Became the Real TAM Constraint for Warehouse Robots and Humanoids

Cambridge spinout Nyobolt closed a $60M Series C at a $1B valuation on May 6, led by Symbotic. The numbers underneath — 5× revenue YoY, 0–80% in under 5 minutes, 20,000 cycles — say the bottleneck for physical-AI fleets just shifted from compute to power, and the warehouse-robotics buyers know it first.

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#nyobolt#symbotic#batteries