His robotics company IPO'd this week. He still thinks a humanoid breakthrough will take years.
His robotics company IPO'd this week. He still thinks a humanoid breakthrough will take years.
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His robotics company IPO'd this week. He still thinks a humanoid breakthrough will take years.
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Unitree CEO says general-purpose robots are still bottlenecked.
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2026-08-21T05:24:35.701Z
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Even one of
robotics' biggest names
says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade.
During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday,
Unitree Robotics CEO
Wang Xingxing said that the industry's breakthrough will come only when a robot can perform most tasks without being specifically trained for them.
"If one day a robot is brought into a completely unfamiliar environment, such as a home it has never seen before, and it can complete about 80% of the tasks just through voice or language commands, then I think we will have roughly reached the 'ChatGPT moment' for embodied intelligence," Wang said.
He estimated that the milestone could arrive in as little as two or three years, though it could take five to 10 years if things moved slowly.
Wang said the biggest hurdle for household robots is getting AI to reliably interact with the physical world. He added that Unitree has already tested robots in automotive factories and its own facilities, but their efficiency and ability to generalize across tasks remains a major bottleneck.
China-based Unitree, which was founded in 2016, first became known for its four-legged robot dogs before expanding into humanoid robots. Its humanoids have helped turn the company into one of the most recognizab