Shanghai-based EYOU Robot sold 95,000 integrated robot joints in 2025 and expects to ship more than 1 million this year, Gu Jinghai, the company's brand director, told the Global Times at the 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing. The projected more-than-tenfold increase is among the most striking growth forecasts heard at this year's conference, which concluded on Sunday after drawing more than 300 exhibitors. The humanoids drew the crowds, but the parts beneath them explain why so many exist at all.

China shipped more than 40,000 humanoid robots in the first half of this year, lifting its share of global shipments to 97 percent, according to an industry report released on…

Unitree Robotics' blockbuster IPO, the bustling World Robot Conference (WRC), and the upcoming World Humanoid Robot Games, amount to a string of high-profile events which have…