China's robots stopped being demo props. These are the machines shipping today — from 10 m/s humanoid sprinters to dexterous hands that peel a banana.
The marquee category — and where China now leads the world in shipped units.
Unitree G1 - first mass-produced biped humanoid past 10,000 units
The first mass-produced biped humanoid to cross 10,000 units. An aggressively priced, standardised platform that ships to researchers, developers and increasingly commercial customers worldwide.
Unitree H1 - the humanoid sprint champion
Unitree's speed machine. In 2026 the H1 was clocked sprinting at 10 m/s — near human record pace — while the H2 adds stronger arms for real work. The company also showed a "superman" prototype jumping 2 metres vertically.
Agibot Yuanzheng A2 - full-size humanoid flagship
The flagship of Agibot's "Yuanzheng" (远征) family — a full-size humanoid built around Agibot's own embodied models. Agibot shipped ~8,400 humanoids in H1 2026, the most in the world.
UBTECH Walker S - working real shifts on real assembly lines
One of the first humanoids to work real shifts in real factories, collaborating on automotive assembly lines. UBTECH raised its 2026 Walker S target to 5,000 units as it pushes for "large-scale commercialisation."
GR-1, GR-2 and GR-3: full-size humanoids with up to 54 degrees of freedom, evolved from Fourier's rehabilitation-robotics actuation. GR-3 targets elderly care and home assistance.
EngineAI T800 - the showman humanoid
The showman's robot — 1.7 metres tall, able to dance, play football, and knock its founder flying with a kick. A flagship of EngineAI's ladder of T800 (general), SA02 (commercial) and PM01 (research) models.
The robot "footballer" — the standard player platform at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games and RoboCup. T2 Pro cut system latency to 4ms, with 10x the edge compute of its predecessor.
Kepler K2 - the sub-$30k industrial humanoid
A full-size humanoid targeting industrial work at sub-US$30,000 — Shanghai's challenger to Unitree's volume play.
LimX CL-1 - dynamic stair climbing humanoid
A full-size humanoid built on LimX's quadruped-leg engineering — dynamic walking and stair climbing from Shenzhen.
China's robot dogs are a global export hit — and wheel-legged designs are blurring the line between wheels and feet.
Unitree Go2 - the robot dog that went global
The robot dog that became a global phenomenon — rented in fleets of 50+ in the US for inspection and entertainment. A low-cost, high-volume proof that Chinese robotics can ship hardware at scale.
Direct-drive wheel-legged platforms (D1, TITA, "Xingtian") exported to 50+ countries — from research platforms to delivery trials with JD.com. Built on Benmo's homegrown direct-drive modules.
The "last mile" of robotics — hands that can do what human hands do.
A five-fingered, two-handed robot that peels bananas, opens bottles and flips pans — powered by a "physical world model" trained on human demonstration data. The demo that stunned the industry in April 2026, four months after founding.
Not a hand, but what teaches one: neuro-muscular signal capture that turns human fine manipulation into robot-training data. The emerging "data layer" of the robotics stack.
A wheeled dual-arm robot with an industrial-grade record — 50,000+ hours without core failure — deploying in automotive, semiconductor and biopharma plants. The vehicle for Guo Yandong's VLA model.
Astribot S1 - 10 m/s dexterous manipulation
The 10 m/s dual-arm manipulation robot — folding clothes, writing calligraphy and assembling at human-plus speed.
The backbone of the industry — arms that weld, assemble and pick at industrial speed.
Six-axis, SCARA and collaborative arms from China's No.1 industrial-robot brand — ~33,400 units shipped in 2025, overtaking the foreign "big four" in domestic market share. Deep in EV battery and PV manufacturing lines.
The "eyes and brain" of industrial robots: AI-driven 3D cameras and software that let arms pick unordered parts, bin-pick and inspect. ~22% of the global AI+3D-vision guided component market.
One of the first force-controlled humanoid dual-arm robots to ship in volume — 2,000+ units in four months — targeting precision tasks that need a gentle, human-like touch.
Harmonic reducers, force sensors and micro-motors — the "muscles and tendons" of humanoid robots. ~300,000 reducer units already ordered by EngineAI, Fourier and others.
From the robots already in our lives to the ones in the sky.
Commercial floor-cleaning robots deployed across dozens of countries — the "boring" product that quietly became a 14-billion-yuan business. A new AI-powered line launched with SoftBank's US arm in 2026.
Self-cleaning-mop robot vacuums that turned a Dongguan startup into a global brand, with overseas orders in the hundreds of millions in 2026. A flagship of the XbotPark alumni wave.
DJI - the reference product of the Chinese hardware ecosystem
The reference product of China's hardware ecosystem — consumer drones that defined and dominate a global category. Proof that Chinese robotics can create, not just catch up.
A flapping-wing robot bird so lifelike that real birds fly alongside it. Quiet, safe and biomimetic, it learned to fly in a self-built fluid-simulation engine before touching the real sky.
Ecovacs Deebot - the home-robot pioneer
The brand that created the Chinese robot-vacuum category in 2006 — now shipping self-cleaning-mop flagships worldwide.
Roborock S8 - the hardware-specs challenger
The hardware-specs challenger — 8,000 Pa suction, dual rubber brushes and self-emptying docks that dominate the global premium segment.
Understand the forces that produced these machines — from 1980 to the humanoid era.