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From drunken boxing martial arts to family-oriented comedy skits, China’s leading robotics firms transformed the world’s most-watched television event into a massive public stress test for humanoid viability.

Unitree Robotics has released footage of its G1 humanoid performing assembly tasks at its own manufacturing facility, powered by the new UnifoLM-X1-0 model—marking a pivotal shift from marketing stunts to industrial utility.

A new full-stack framework from HKUST and Shanghai AI Lab allows humanoid robots to acquire complex athletic skills like basketball and reactive fighting directly from human videos—no manual reward engineering required.

In a high-altitude display of endurance, Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot completed a 130,000-step "autonomous challenge" in the extreme cold of Altay to promote China Media Group’s upcoming Winter Olympics coverage.

A new IDC report crowns AgiBot as the global shipment leader for 2025, but the title remains contested as rivals debate the definition of a "humanoid" robot.