Unitree Robotics

A newly-founded Chinese startup, MindOne Robotics, has released a viral video showing a Unitree G1 performing complex household tasks.

With the new G1-D, Unitree Robotics is pivoting from bipedal agility to stability, offering a wheeled humanoid and a full-stack software platform designed to accelerate data acquisition and model training.

New research from Stanford University, following MIT's recent SoftMimic project, uses a novel RL framework to teach humanoid robots upper-body compliance, enabling them to safely hug, provide support, and handle fragile objects.

Two new leagues, REK (Robot Embodied Kombat) and UFB (Ultimate Fighting Bots), have announced competing humanoid robot fighting events in the US, partnering with Unitree. The move signals a new commercial push for ''Real Steel''-style, VR-piloted combat, but technical and safety challenges remain.

Speaking at a Shanghai forum, Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing defined the breakthrough for embodied AI as an 80% task success rate in unfamiliar environments. He and other industry leaders also warned that progress is “slower than hoped” and called for urgent data and hardware standardization.