{"id":7943,"date":"2025-09-25T09:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/from-dancing-to-fetching-water-unitree-ceo-outlines-future-of-humanoid-robots\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:35:56","slug":"from-dancing-to-fetching-water-unitree-ceo-outlines-future-of-humanoid-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/from-dancing-to-fetching-water-unitree-ceo-outlines-future-of-humanoid-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"From dancing to fetching water: Unitree CEO outlines future of humanoid robots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The future of robotics is not about machines dancing to amuse humans; rather, it is about a robot that understand the command “I’m thirsty” and can bring you a bottle of water in a venue it has never been to, according to Unitree Robotics<\/span> CEO Wang Xingxing.<\/div>\n
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But Wang also identified critical hurdles that the entire industry must overcome to make these scenarios a reality, including how to cool overheating high-performance chips, battery life issues and complex cable layouts within the machine that can lead to malfunctions.<\/p>\n

Wang, who is also chief technology officer at Unitree, laid out a clear and ambitious three-stage road map for humanoid robots. First was to perform programmed actions like dancing or martial arts, which Unitree achieved last year; second was to generate actions in real time based on any given instruction – which Wang said could be realised by the end of the year if progress was speedy; and third was fulfilling the “I’m thirsty” scenario.<\/p>\n

This final stage would happen when “we bring a robot into [an unknown setting] and it can do anything – such as fetching a glass of water or tidying the table – based on our command”, Wang said at a Qualcomm event in Beijing on Wednesday, adding that “this could be achieved as soon as next year”.<\/p>\n

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Unitree robots joined a troop of dancers to perform the Yangge, a folk dance originating in the northeastern region of China, for the Chinese New Year on January 29. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

But it would take “another few years” to achieve a 99 per cent success rate in such movements, or for robots to “be able to perform more intricate” tasks such as dismantling and reassembling a mobile phone, he added.<\/p>\n

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The future of robotics is not about machines dancing to amuse humans; rather, it is about a robot that understand the command “I’m thirsty” and can bring you a bottle of water in a venue it has never been to, according to Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing. Advertisement But Wang also identified critical hurdles that…<\/p>\n

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