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China

Unitree is known for affordable quadruped robots and has entered the humanoid market with H1 and G1 series.
United States

Tesla is developing Optimus, a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for tasks that are unsafe, repetitive, or boring. Leveraging Tesla's expertise in AI, batteries, and manufacturing.
China

Daka Robot (Beijing) Co., Ltd. was established on May 16, 2025, and is a limited liability company (natural person investment or holding) primarily engaged in the retail industry. Its legal representative is Wang Kun, with a registered capital of RMB 1 million. The registered address is Rooms 1309 and 1310 (within Room 1301), 13th Floor, Building 1, Yard No. 8, Beichen East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing. Xu Wenqiang is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Daka Robot. He was admitted to the University of Science and Technology of China in 2011 and received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2023, under the prestigious Wu Wenjun Honors Program. His research achievements have won the Best Paper Award at IROS, a top conference in robotics, and he has published multiple papers as first or co-first author in high-impact journals and conferences such as Nature Communications. As one of the earliest scholars in China to study embodied intelligence, Xu leads the team in tackling core technologies such as XBrain 2.0 and promoting their application across diverse scenarios. In 2025, he was named to the Forbes China 30 Under 30 list. The company’s business scope includes the R&D, design, manufacturing, and sales of intelligent robots, as well as the sales of AI hardware, application software development, and technical services. On May 22, 2025, the company completed its first strategic financing round, raising RMB 30.2 million from Runzhong International Holdings. In late September 2025, it reached a strategic cooperation with Jixieji Technology Group, providing hundreds of humanoid robots to be equipped with the latter’s embodied intelligence system, BIROS, for applications in elderly care and emergency scenarios. On October 13, 2025, it officially released the commercial‑grade humanoid robot X7 series, including the X7 EDU version. The robot is designed to be 170 cm tall. Its hands are equipped with dual seven‑axis bionic high‑payload robotic arms, with a maximum dual‑arm payload of 10 kg. Different end effectors such as grippers or dexterous hands can be attached. The EDU version has 23 degrees of freedom (DoF) across the body, while the Pro version has 26 DoF. The Pro version is also equipped with a 3D perception and interaction system, including depth cameras on the wrist and head. The X7 series is powered by the company’s self‑developed XBrain 2.0 commercial large model. Enterprise WeChat: va62434f447a
China

Kinetix AI is a Shenzhen-based frontier robotics company developing highly human-like humanoid robots and embodied intelligence systems. The company focuses on a Physical World Model for whole-body control, combining spatial intelligence, whole-body control, multimodal foundation models, data acquisition infrastructure, and embodied AI infrastructure for home, factory, and commercial scenarios.
China

Shanghai Kepler Robot Co., Ltd. is a high-tech innovation enterprise dedicated to the R&D, production, and application ecosystem of general-purpose humanoid robots, committed to creating industry-leading, truly deployable “blue-collar” humanoid robots. The company focuses on diverse application scenarios such as intelligent manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, special industries, and scientific research data collection, providing innovation-driven customized intelligent solutions. It has established strategic partnerships with multiple industry-leading companies and has filed over 30 patent applications globally, with more than 10 granted. Kepler uses self-developed algorithms to achieve a combination of preset motions and end-to-end fully autonomous planning for humanoid robots, along with precise control. The robot is equipped with a high-performance GPU motherboard, a variety of sensors including pure vision recognition and navigation solutions, and a bionic design that enables it to handle and solve heavy tasks much like a real human, freeing people from repetitive labor and high-risk industries while improving productivity and work efficiency.
China
With Intelligent Machines Creating Infinite Productivity Zhiyuan Robot is a world-leading general AI robot company with embodied intelligence as its core technology direction. Our name, AGIBOT, derives from Artificial General Intelligence (“AGI”) technology and robot (“BOT”) hardware, reflecting our commitment to systematically bringing AI capabilities into the physical world and driving large‑scale application of intelligent robots in real‑world production and service scenarios. We build a full‑stack technology and product system around three pillars: robot hardware, intelligent algorithms, and an open platform. Adopting a tightly integrated hardware‑software architecture, we continuously improve the robot’s capabilities in environmental perception, task understanding, and physical execution. As a result, our robots can perform diverse tasks in complex, dynamic real‑world environments and iteratively adapt, laying a sustainable technological foundation for enhancing productivity across society. **Our Mission** With intelligent machines creating infinite productivity **Our Vision** To become a global leader in intelligent robotics and pioneer a general‑purpose robot ecosystem **Our Values** **Pursuit of Excellence** - Choose the hard but right things, master the pace, run the long distance, and let quantitative accumulation lead to qualitative change - Strive to be the best in each domain, with local optima serving the global optimum - Dare to break conventions, think big and act boldly, embrace innovation, tolerate failure, and grow through failure **Action‑Oriented & Efficient** - Goal‑driven, with results as the ultimate measure of work - Emphasize self‑motivation and sense of mission, take ownership, dare to decide, avoid buck‑passing - Flat organization, trust‑based, simplified management - Meritocracy, prioritize organizational efficiency over organizational expansion **Customer First** - Target high‑growth leading customers in large spaces as priority clients - Understand customers and create value for them as the driving force of business activities - Pursue win‑win outcomes of customer satisfaction and the company’s long‑term interests **Product Excellence** - Support business success with leading product competitiveness - Lead technological innovation and rapidly translate it into product competitiveness - Customer‑need‑driven technological innovation, dual‑drive, agile iteration, lean startup - Absorb world‑class research results and fully leverage the local industrial chain **Talent First** - Attract and develop like‑minded outstanding talents - Value sharing across the whole team based on value creation - Sustainable internal talent development mechanism - Energetic, open, united, and warm organizational culture **Team Introduction** **Deng Taihua** Founder / Chairman / CEO **Peng Zhihui** Co‑founder / President / CTO **Jiang Qingsong** Partner / Co‑President / President of Marketing, Sales & Service **Yao Maoqing** Partner / Senior Vice President / President of Embodied Business Unit **Wang Chuang** Partner / Senior Vice President / President of General Business Unit **Luo Jianlan** Partner / Senior Vice President / Chief Scientist **Niu Jia** Partner / Vice President / Chief Human Resources Officer