Shenzhen has received a boost to its role in manufacturing humanoid robots after Unitree Robotics set up a new venture to leverage the supply chain and supportive policies of the southern tech hub.
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Unitree, the country’s hottest robot maker and one of the so-called six Little Dragons based in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, established a wholly-owned venture called Shenzhen Tianyi Technology, which will handle development and sales of intelligent robots and manufacturing of service robots, among others, according to business registry platform Tianyancha.
Unitree, whose robot dogs and humanoid robots have attracted global attention, set up similar subsidiaries in Beijing and Shanghai in late 2024, according to Tianyancha.
Unitree’s expansion in Shenzhen comes just days after the tech hub in southern Guangdong province introduced sweeping measures to achieve its ambition as a leader in the rapidly growing robotics field, as other Chinese cities including Hangzhou emerge as new hubs of innovations.
This week, Shenzhen released an ambitious plan to build a 100 billion yuan (US$13.8 billion) humanoid robotics sector by 2027. It aims to cultivate an industry cluster of 1,200 human-shaped robotics-related firms by then, including over 10 companies with valuations exceeding 10 billion yuan.
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