Unitree's three-continent rollout stalls at the US border

Unitree Robotics set out to do something no humanoid maker had done before: launch the same machine commercially on three continents inside three weeks. The H1 Pro went on sale in Europe on 22 July 2026, Asia followed on 5 August with a reported deployment of more than five hundred units into logistics warehouses and manufacturing plants, and North America was scheduled for 12 August. The American leg no longer has a route. On 28 July 2026 the FCC extended its Covered List to foreign-produced advanced robotic devices, which withholds the equipment authorisation a new hardware model needs before it can be imported, marketed or sold in the United States. Reporting indicates no current regulatory pathway for the H1 Pro there. The move follows the Pentagon adding Unitree to its list of Chinese military companies earlier in the summer, which bars Department of Defense contracts. Analysts have also pointed to China's National Intelligence Law, under which a Chinese company can be required to provide data to state intelligence services regardless of where its machines operate. No equivalent European rule blocks the sale of the H1 Pro today. The H1 Pro now has its own profile in the wujec.ai catalogue, alongside the Unitree G1, Go2 and H2.