{"slug": "china-has-6-of-worlds-10-most-innovative-humanoid-robot-start-ups-report", "title": "China has 6 of world’s 10 most innovative humanoid robot start-ups: report", "summary": "China has six of the world's 10 most innovative humanoid robot start-ups, according to a LexisNexis report released Tuesday, with Chinese firms claiming the top five spots. The study evaluated patent assets of private start-ups with bipedal walking robots, highlighting a 'clear shift towards China' in innovation across key humanoid technologies over the past decade.", "body_md": "# China has 6 of world’s 10 most innovative humanoid robot start-ups: report\n\nThe LexisNexis study identified a ‘clear shift towards China’ in the humanoid robot race, with the US falling behind\n\n[restrict imports of robots, including those made in China](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3362185/us-bans-new-chinese-robots-power-inverters-latest-tech-crackdown?module=inline&pgtype=article).\n\nFirms from China dominated the ranking released by legal research platform LexisNexis on Tuesday, claiming a clean sweep of the top five.\n\nThe top five places went to Shanghai-based Fourier and AgiBot, Shenzhen-based LimX Dynamics and Pudu Robotics, and Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics. Shenzhen’s Leju Robot also made the top 10, ranking ninth.\n\nBy contrast, only three US start-ups made the cut: Figure AI, Apptronik and Agility Robotics, which took sixth, eighth and 10th positions, respectively. Germany’s Agile Robots was the sole European entrant, ranking seventh.\n\nLexisNexis said it evaluated the “strength” of patent assets held by private start-ups that had demonstrated at least one bipedal walking robot. Its proprietary metric, the Patent Asset Index, measured patent portfolio size, technological value and geographic scope.\n\nThe study highlighted a “clear shift towards China” in terms of innovation across three key humanoid technologies. Over the past decade, patent filings from China-based inventors doubled in interaction systems, expanded by 2.5 times in morphology, and jumped fivefold in control and planning architectures, it said.\n\nThe results not only reflected the high number of patents filed in China, but also the value of those inventions based on market coverage and the degree to which subsequent innovations build upon them, according to LexisNexis.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-has-6-of-worlds-10-most-innovative-humanoid-robot-start-ups-report", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3362195/china-has-6-worlds-10-most-innovative-humanoid-robot-start-ups-report?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-07-29 02:59:49+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-29 03:27:56.103175+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["LexisNexis", "Fourier", "AgiBot", "LimX Dynamics", "Pudu Robotics", "Unitree Robotics", "Leju Robot", "Figure AI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-has-6-of-worlds-10-most-innovative-humanoid-robot-start-ups-report", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-has-6-of-worlds-10-most-innovative-humanoid-robot-start-ups-report.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-has-6-of-worlds-10-most-innovative-humanoid-robot-start-ups-report.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/china-has-6-of-worlds-10-most-innovative-humanoid-robot-start-ups-report.jsonld"}}