{
  "meta": {
    "name": "Humanoid robotics public-market access snapshot",
    "publisher": "Biped.News",
    "canonicalUrl": "https://biped.news/investing",
    "dataUrl": "https://biped.news/data/investing-access.json",
    "generatedAt": "2026-09-27T09:18:46.768Z",
    "verifiedAt": "2026-08-21",
    "updateCadence": "Reviewed as public-market access changes and regenerated during site builds.",
    "usageNote": "Market research only; not investment advice or a trading feed.",
    "methodology": [
      "Trading means shares or ETF units are currently exchange-listed under the stated symbol; pending IPO or SPAC stages are kept separate.",
      "Directness describes how closely the security's business is tied to humanoid robotics, not an expected return or recommendation.",
      "Developer exposure is separated from parent-company, supplier, AI infrastructure and broad automation exposure already mapped elsewhere on Biped.News.",
      "ETF scope, expense ratios and inception dates are taken from issuer pages and should be rechecked because holdings, fees and mandates can change."
    ],
    "limitations": [
      "This is market research, not investment advice, a recommendation, valuation opinion or trading feed.",
      "A public company can have genuine humanoid exposure while humanoid revenue remains immaterial to its consolidated results.",
      "A priced IPO is not the same as shares beginning to trade; a SPAC agreement is not the same as a completed business combination.",
      "Foreign listings can introduce access, currency, liquidity, tax, policy and disclosure risks that this snapshot does not quantify.",
      "This snapshot is not a global census of every listed company with a robot project; it prioritizes higher-confidence developer exposure with current primary-source evidence."
    ]
  },
  "records": {
    "access": [
      {
        "name": "Tesla",
        "symbol": "TSLA",
        "exchange": "NASDAQ",
        "accessStatus": "Trading",
        "accessType": "Public equity",
        "directness": "Diversified robot developer",
        "investorAccess": "Buy Tesla shares; Optimus is not separately listed.",
        "evidence": "Tesla officially describes Optimus as a general-purpose autonomous bipedal humanoid robot, but the robotics program remains part of a much larger EV, energy and autonomy business.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.tesla.com/AI",
        "sourceLabel": "Tesla AI & Robotics",
        "secondarySourceUrl": "https://ir.tesla.com/",
        "relatedPath": "/companies/tesla"
      },
      {
        "name": "UBTECH Robotics",
        "symbol": "9880.HK",
        "exchange": "HKEX",
        "accessStatus": "Trading",
        "accessType": "Public equity",
        "directness": "Robotics-centered listed developer",
        "investorAccess": "Hong Kong-listed shares provide one of the more direct current public humanoid exposures.",
        "evidence": "UBTECH is a listed robotics company with Walker-series humanoid programs and named industrial deployment evidence tracked by Biped.News.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.ubtrobot.com/investor-relations/",
        "sourceLabel": "UBTECH investor relations",
        "relatedPath": "/companies/ubtech"
      },
      {
        "name": "Rainbow Robotics",
        "symbol": "277810",
        "marketDataSymbol": "277810.KQ",
        "exchange": "KOSDAQ",
        "accessStatus": "Trading",
        "accessType": "Public equity",
        "directness": "Listed robotics specialist",
        "investorAccess": "KOSDAQ-listed robotics equity; Samsung is the largest shareholder.",
        "evidence": "Rainbow Robotics was founded by the KAIST HUBO humanoid team and listed on KOSDAQ in 2021. Samsung increased its stake to 35% to accelerate future robots including humanoids.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://rainbow-robotics.com/en_introduction",
        "sourceLabel": "Rainbow Robotics company history",
        "secondarySourceUrl": "https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-to-become-largest-shareholder-in-rainbow-robotics-accelerating-future-robot-development"
      },
      {
        "name": "XPENG",
        "symbol": "XPEV / 9868.HK",
        "marketDataSymbol": "XPEV",
        "exchange": "NYSE / HKEX",
        "accessStatus": "Trading",
        "accessType": "Public equity",
        "directness": "Diversified physical-AI developer",
        "investorAccess": "NYSE ADSs trade as XPEV; Hong Kong shares trade as 9868.",
        "evidence": "XPENG is developing the IRON humanoid and says its mass-production-ready version is targeted for formal mass production by the end of 2026, but autos still dominate the business.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.xpeng.com/pressroom/news/019e95aed2899e8226228a028d650112",
        "sourceLabel": "XPENG CVPR 2026 update",
        "secondarySourceUrl": "https://ir.xiaopeng.com/resources/investor-faqs"
      },
      {
        "name": "Dobot Robotics",
        "symbol": "02432.HK",
        "marketDataSymbol": "2432.HK",
        "exchange": "HKEX",
        "accessStatus": "Trading",
        "accessType": "Public equity",
        "directness": "Listed robotics specialist",
        "investorAccess": "Hong Kong-listed H shares provide direct exposure to Dobot, whose current product catalog includes the ATOM humanoid.",
        "evidence": "HKEX lists Dobot under stock code 02432, while Dobot officially describes ATOM as its first full-size embodied-AI humanoid robot.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.dobot-robots.com/relations",
        "sourceLabel": "Dobot investor relations",
        "secondarySourceUrl": "https://www.dobot-robots.com/products/humanoid-robots/atom.html"
      },
      {
        "name": "Unitree Robotics",
        "symbol": "688836",
        "marketDataSymbol": "688836.SS",
        "exchange": "Shanghai STAR Market",
        "accessStatus": "Trading",
        "accessType": "Public equity",
        "directness": "Robotics-centered listed developer",
        "investorAccess": "Unitree A-shares began trading on Shanghai's STAR Market on August 19, 2026 under stock code 688836. Investor access depends on brokerage and market eligibility.",
        "evidence": "The Shanghai Stock Exchange records Unitree's August 19 listing ceremony, and market reporting verifies stock code 688836. The IPO was priced at RMB 150.80; first-day trading volatility is a market event, not evidence of robot deployment readiness or a Biped.News valuation recommendation.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://star.sse.com.cn/aboutus/mediacenter/ceremony/",
        "sourceLabel": "Shanghai Stock Exchange listing ceremony",
        "secondarySourceUrl": "https://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/unitree-robotics-soars-in-shanghai-trading-debut",
        "relatedPath": "/companies/unitree"
      },
      {
        "name": "Agility Robotics / Churchill Capital Corp XI",
        "symbol": "CCXI now; AGLT expected after closing",
        "exchange": "NASDAQ",
        "accessStatus": "SPAC transaction pending",
        "accessType": "SPAC watch",
        "directness": "Proposed U.S. pure-play",
        "investorAccess": "CCXI is Churchill Capital Corp XI today, not Agility common stock. Agility becomes public only if the business combination closes.",
        "evidence": "Churchill and Agility signed a merger agreement on June 24, 2026. A July 14 SEC filing and Agility update say a confidential draft Form S-4 was submitted; the transaction remains subject to closing conditions.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2074973/000121390026077978/ea0297923-8k425_churchill11.htm",
        "sourceLabel": "SEC Form 8-K, July 14, 2026",
        "relatedPath": "/companies/agility-robotics"
      }
    ],
    "humanoidEtfs": [
      {
        "name": "KraneShares Global Humanoid Robotics and Physical AI Index ETF",
        "symbol": "KOID",
        "exchange": "NASDAQ",
        "style": "Index",
        "expense": "0.79% gross / 0.69% net as verified",
        "inception": "2025-06-04",
        "focus": "Humanoid developers plus the physical-AI brain, body, components and integrator ecosystem.",
        "caveat": "Still a broad ecosystem basket rather than a portfolio of only pure-play humanoid makers.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://kraneshares.com/etf/koid/",
        "sourceLabel": "KraneShares fund page"
      },
      {
        "name": "Roundhill Humanoid Robotics ETF",
        "symbol": "HUMN",
        "exchange": "Cboe BZX",
        "style": "Active",
        "expense": "0.75%",
        "inception": "2025-06-26",
        "focus": "Actively managed exposure to humanoid developers and enabling physical-AI companies.",
        "caveat": "Holdings and weights can change actively; verify the current portfolio before inferring company exposure.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.roundhillinvestments.com/etf/humn/",
        "sourceLabel": "Roundhill fund page"
      },
      {
        "name": "Themes Humanoid Robotics ETF",
        "symbol": "BOTT",
        "exchange": "NASDAQ",
        "style": "Index",
        "expense": "0.35%",
        "inception": "2024-04-22",
        "focus": "Tracks the Solactive Global Humanoid Robotics Index across automation equipment, semiconductors and machine components.",
        "caveat": "The fund predates its humanoid mandate: Themes says the underlying index changed to the humanoid index on August 19, 2025.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://themesetfs.com/etfs/bott",
        "sourceLabel": "Themes fund page"
      },
      {
        "name": "Global X Humanoid Robotics ETF",
        "symbol": "HMND",
        "exchange": "ASX",
        "style": "Index",
        "expense": "0.57% p.a.",
        "inception": "2026-03-26",
        "focus": "Australian-domiciled fund tracking the global humanoid robotics value chain.",
        "caveat": "ASX-listed and AUD-denominated; access, tax and currency exposure differ from U.S.-listed funds.",
        "sourceUrl": "https://www.globalxetfs.com.au/funds/hmnd/",
        "sourceLabel": "Global X Australia fund page"
      }
    ]
  }
}