China has three new criteria for humanoid robot IPOs. Few, if any, meet them

BEIJING — China's securities regulator is raising the bar for public listings of humanoid robot startups, according to three sources familiar with the CSRC's thinking. It's a sign of how one of the hottest sectors of the market is cooling, as investors globally assess whether artificial intelligence stocks are in a bubble . The Chinese regulator wants local "embodied AI" startups seeking to go public to meet three specific criteria, according to the sources, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation. Even if a startup only has to meet two of the three criteria, as one source indicated, it's unclear which, if any, of the companies can do so.