Shangwei's Qiyuan Robots Pass 10,000 Units; Unitree Plans JV for Oil-and-Gas Scene

On November 8, Shangwei Advanced Materials announced its Qiyuan robots "Qiyuan Q1" and "T1" had cumulatively rolled off 10,000 units, while cautioning that consumer-robot revenue remains a small share and the business is still in scaled-production ramp-up. Meanwhile Unitree's industrial foothold advanced: a Beijing market-regulator filing shows Kunlun Manufacturing and its concerted actor Kunlun Capital hold 60% of a joint venture, with Unitree and Beijing Fanjie Intelligent each holding 20%, to build industrial embodied-intelligence robot solutions focused on oil-and-gas scenarios, with the public-comment period running November 4-13. IDC data show global humanoid shipments neared 25,000 in the first half, with non-industrial scenes (research, performance, government data collection) falling from 83.8% to 69% of the total - evidence that application is extending toward manufacturing, retail and logistics. The bar for mass-production validation is shifting from units off the line to whether delivery reaches the workstation and orders repeat.

Source: NetEase / Forbes (Shanghai), Nov 10, 2026 | 2026-11-10