Robotics Stocks: China IPO Stampede, Unitree's $14B Buzz, Intuitive Beats | Jul 17, 2026
Last week one humanoid robot maker got cleared to go public. This week it became a stampede. On The Robot Investor, analyst Elena Vance and curious investor Theo Brooks break down a red-hot week for robotics stocks. China's humanoid startups are racing each other to the public markets: LimX Dynamics raised $200 million in a pre-IPO round at a ~15 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) valuation with its founder declaring "listing is a must," Galbot picked CITIC, Huatai and UBS for a Hong Kong IPO, and roughly 20 Chinese embodied-AI startups now carry valuations above 10 billion yuan. Meanwhile Unitree's…
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