Unitree CEO: China’s Humanoid Robot Industry Booming Amid Surging Orders and Talent Demand

Shanghai, May 10 — Wang Xingxing, CEO of Hangzhou Unitree Robotics, stated at the 6th Shanghai Youth Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship that China’s humanoid robotics sector is experiencing a surge in momentum, thanks to increasing market enthusiasm and strong national policy support. “Many companies, including Unitree, are overwhelmed with orders,” Wang said in an interview during the event.

Unitree is now facing a significant talent shortage across all departments, including administration, procurement, sales, engineering, R&D, and marketing. Wang extended an open invitation to young professionals to join the company, signaling rapid expansion and strong market demand.

Looking ahead, Wang emphasized that over the next two to five years, the industry’s technological focus will be on building end-to-end large models for intelligent robots. Key challenges will include reducing the cost of hardware at scale and improving access to computational power.

Unitree has already developed in-house several critical robotic components, including motors, reducers, controllers, and LiDAR systems. The company also leads in perception and motion control algorithms and has integrated capabilities across the entire robotics value chain.

According to Cui Yan, an analyst at Minsheng Securities, the adoption of large AI models is significantly advancing humanoid robots by enabling multimodal interactions—such as language, vision, and touch—and allowing generalization across different real-world scenarios. These models enhance the robots’ cognitive capabilities, granting them perception, decision-making, and action execution skills. This, she notes, brings the concept of “embodied intelligence” closer to real-world deployment.