Overview
- Unitree announced a new humanoid called Superman that it says reached a top speed of 12.66 meters per second and completed a 2‑meter standing jump, with the company calling the platform a work in progress.
- The speed figure exceeds the peak speed recorded for Usain Bolt in his 2009 run but Unitree has not released independent third‑party verification of the result.
- Unitree priced its STAR Market IPO at 150.8 yuan per share and raised about 6.1 billion yuan, with the retail tranche reportedly oversubscribed by record multiples.
- The company points to rapid engineering, roughly three months of development for Superman, plus 2025 revenue of about 1.7 billion yuan, 591 million yuan net profit, and roughly 18,000 cumulative bipedal deliveries as evidence of scale.
- Analysts and investors face a test: strong retail demand and high valuation set expectations for fast commercial gains while risks from unverified performance, rising R&D and marketing costs, domestic competition, and export controls could limit real‑world adoption.