US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban
FCC ban on foreign-made robots accelerated RoboStore’s US manufacturing plans.
RoboStore, a leading US distributor of China's most popular humanoid robots and robot dogs, is shifting its focus to produce its own robots after facing a US government crackdown on foreign-made robots. The company, which had become the primary North American distributor for humanoid robots and quadruped robots from Unitree Robotics, a Chinese robotics firm, has announced plans to establish a manufacturing facility on Long Island, New York.
Before the pivot, universities including Harvard and MIT, as well as tech giants such as Amazon and Nvidia, relied on RoboStore for purchasing Unitree's affordable and popular humanoid robot models for research and development purposes. Teddy Haggerty, the founder and CEO of RoboStore, revealed that the company had sold over 1,500 robots while working with customers like Cisco, OpenAI, Nvidia, and more than 150 universities.
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