US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban

RoboStore announced on August 10 it will open a 66,000-square-foot Long Island plant by fiscal Q1 2027, under new company Robo Inc. The pivot comes amid the US crackdown on foreign-made robots; the firm says it has sold 1,500 Unitree robots to Cisco, OpenAI, Nvidia, and over 150 universities.
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