{"id":214879,"date":"2025-05-27T17:09:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/chinas-ubtech-takes-direct-shot-at-tesla-with-20k-humanoid-robot"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:09:45","slug":"chinas-ubtech-takes-direct-shot-at-tesla-with-20k-humanoid-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/chinas-ubtech-takes-direct-shot-at-tesla-with-20k-humanoid-robot","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s UBTech takes direct shot at Tesla with $20K humanoid robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-ubtech-takes-direct-shot-at-tesla-with-20k-humanoid-robot.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UBTech\u2019s consumer shift comes as it faces financial strain. The company lost over 1.1 billion yuan ($153 million) last year. Its stock has fallen 45% over the past 12 months in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Tam welcomes the pressure. \u201cWhite-hot competition creates a lot of pressure on a single company, but for the whole industry, it helps preserve good companies and eliminate bad ones,\u201d he told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-23\/a-20-000-home-companion-robot-from-china-to-debut-this-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As humanoid robots inch closer to everyday life, UBTech\u2019s shift to the home market marks a high-stakes bet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBTech\u2019s consumer shift comes as it faces financial strain. The company lost over 1.1 billion yuan ($153 million) last year. Its stock has fallen 45% over the past 12 months in Hong Kong. Still, Tam welcomes the pressure. \u201cWhite-hot competition creates a lot of pressure on a single company, but for the whole industry, it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}