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Japanese technology media outlet #Nikkei xTECH disassembled a Chinese #humanoid #robot #Unitree G1 to examine its engineering and design. From screws and battery to its leg mechanism, the analysis offers a closer look at what powers the robot. The reporter concluded that narrowing the gap with China in humanoid robotics "would be difficult to achieve overnight."
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Japanese technology media outlet #Nikkei xTECH disassembled a Chinese #humanoid #robot #Unitree G1 to examine its engineering and design. From screws and battery to its leg mechanism, the analysis offers a closer look at what powers the robot. The reporter concluded that narrowing the gap with China in humanoid robotics "would be difficult to achieve overnight."

Global Times

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When Humanoid G1-Robot start learning to dance, perhaps it’s not just about movement, but the rhythm of the future. #Unitree #Humanoidrobot Video From Multimodal AI Research and Systems Lab, THU(清华大学). Author:
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When Humanoid G1-Robot start learning to dance, perhaps it’s not just about movement, but the rhythm of the future. #Unitree #Humanoidrobot Video From Multimodal AI Research and Systems Lab, THU(清华大学). Author:

Irving Chen

53,877 views • 1 year ago

Unitree Spring Festival Gala Robots —a Full Release of Additional Details 🥳 Dozens of G1 robots achieved the world’s first fully autonomous humanoid robot cluster Kung Fu performance (with quick movement), pushing motion limits and setting multiple world firsts! H2 made striking appearances at both the Beijing main venue and the Yiwu sub-venue, clad in the Monkey King’s heavy armor and riding a “somersault cloud” played by B2W quadruped robot dogs, delivering New Year blessings from the clouds.
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Unitree Spring Festival Gala Robots —a Full Release of Additional Details 🥳 Dozens of G1 robots achieved the world’s first fully autonomous humanoid robot cluster Kung Fu performance (with quick movement), pushing motion limits and setting multiple world firsts! H2 made striking appearances at both the Beijing main venue and the Yiwu sub-venue, clad in the Monkey King’s heavy armor and riding a “somersault cloud” played by B2W quadruped robot dogs, delivering New Year blessings from the clouds.

Unitree

27,903,392 views • 5 months ago

Boston Dynamics has shared a new video of its humanoid robot, Atlas. "Our engineers made one final push to test the limits of full-body control and mobility, with help from the RAI Institute."
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Boston Dynamics has shared a new video of its humanoid robot, Atlas. "Our engineers made one final push to test the limits of full-body control and mobility, with help from the RAI Institute."

Sawyer Merritt

1,278,956 views • 6 months ago

A robot withstood −47°C cold and walked 130,000 steps The company Unitree tested its humanoid robot G1 in a high-altitude area of China’s Xinjiang region. At temperatures as low as −47.5°C, the robot walked across snow a distance equivalent to 130,000 steps. During the experiment, the robot trampled the Olympic rings into the snow — an emblem roughly 186 × 100 meters in size, visible from above. To prevent equipment failure, G1 was dressed in an insulated jacket and gloves.
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A robot withstood −47°C cold and walked 130,000 steps The company Unitree tested its humanoid robot G1 in a high-altitude area of China’s Xinjiang region. At temperatures as low as −47.5°C, the robot walked across snow a distance equivalent to 130,000 steps. During the experiment, the robot trampled the Olympic rings into the snow — an emblem roughly 186 × 100 meters in size, visible from above. To prevent equipment failure, G1 was dressed in an insulated jacket and gloves.

NEXTA

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Humanoid Long Jump. The G1 humanoid from Unitree Robotics has completed a long jump of 1.4 meters - possibly the longest jump ever achieved by a humanoid robot of its size in the world, standing only 1.32 meters tall. The G1 has up to 43 joint motors and a dexterous three-fingered hand, designed for precise manipulation and AI research. Priced from $16,000, it features robust Sim2Real capabilities, making it a compelling choice for robotics developers.
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Humanoid Long Jump. The G1 humanoid from Unitree Robotics has completed a long jump of 1.4 meters - possibly the longest jump ever achieved by a humanoid robot of its size in the world, standing only 1.32 meters tall. The G1 has up to 43 joint motors and a dexterous three-fingered hand, designed for precise manipulation and AI research. Priced from $16,000, it features robust Sim2Real capabilities, making it a compelling choice for robotics developers.

Circuit

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People still say humanoid robots cannot handle creativity, rhythm, or coordinated motion. Meanwhile, a Unitree humanoid is already playing drums with timing, arm synchronization, balance control, and real time motion planning. Here is why this matters: Goldman Sachs projects the humanoid robot market could reach $38 billion by 2035, with shipments around 1.4 million units. Unitree’s R1 started around $5,600, while its earlier G1 was around $16,000, showing how fast humanoid hardware costs are falling. A drum performance may look like entertainment, but it tests the same foundations robotics needs everywhere: motion control latency balance precision spatial awareness task repetition A robot does not need to become human to start replacing human tasks. It only needs to become good enough. And that line is getting closer every year.
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People still say humanoid robots cannot handle creativity, rhythm, or coordinated motion. Meanwhile, a Unitree humanoid is already playing drums with timing, arm synchronization, balance control, and real time motion planning. Here is why this matters: Goldman Sachs projects the humanoid robot market could reach $38 billion by 2035, with shipments around 1.4 million units. Unitree’s R1 started around $5,600, while its earlier G1 was around $16,000, showing how fast humanoid hardware costs are falling. A drum performance may look like entertainment, but it tests the same foundations robotics needs everywhere: motion control latency balance precision spatial awareness task repetition A robot does not need to become human to start replacing human tasks. It only needs to become good enough. And that line is getting closer every year.

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22,657 views • 3 months ago

The Unitree G1 is stepping onto the court, demonstrating the ability to sustain multi-shot tennis rallies with human players. A research team from Tsinghua and Peking University developed the LATENT system, which allows the humanoid to return balls traveling at over 15 m/s. By training on "imperfect" motion fragments and applying corrective adjustments, the robot maintains an athletic, human-like style during high-speed play.
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The Unitree G1 is stepping onto the court, demonstrating the ability to sustain multi-shot tennis rallies with human players. A research team from Tsinghua and Peking University developed the LATENT system, which allows the humanoid to return balls traveling at over 15 m/s. By training on "imperfect" motion fragments and applying corrective adjustments, the robot maintains an athletic, human-like style during high-speed play.

Humanoids daily

15,267 views • 4 months ago

Jensen just unveiled the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei, the first open humanoid reference design built on Jetson Thor + the Isaac GR00T platform. - The body: Unitree H2 chassis + Sharpa Wave tactile 5-finger hands. - The brain: Jetson Thor compute + the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T open software stack (teleop, foundation models, sim, ROS). - Aimed at academic labs that want to do frontier humanoid research without proprietary lock-in. - Early adopters: ETH Zurich, Stanford Robotics Center, UCSD ARCLab. Endorsed by Skild's Deepak Pathak and Ai2's Dieter Fox. Ships from Unitree late 2026.
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Jensen just unveiled the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei, the first open humanoid reference design built on Jetson Thor + the Isaac GR00T platform. - The body: Unitree H2 chassis + Sharpa Wave tactile 5-finger hands. - The brain: Jetson Thor compute + the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T open software stack (teleop, foundation models, sim, ROS). - Aimed at academic labs that want to do frontier humanoid research without proprietary lock-in. - Early adopters: ETH Zurich, Stanford Robotics Center, UCSD ARCLab. Endorsed by Skild's Deepak Pathak and Ai2's Dieter Fox. Ships from Unitree late 2026.

The Humanoid Hub

40,132 views • 2 months ago

How humanoids move from "Kung Fu" mode to "Blue-collar" work 🤖🦾 Unitree founder Xingxing Wang just dropped some major truth bombs about the reality of robot labor at the HEIS meeting in Beijing Extreme mobility like the "Kung Fu" bot at the Gala is the prerequisite—stable movement is the foundation for robots to actually start working Unitree has been deploying humanoids at NIO and Geely since 2024 with a 100% success rate on single tasks like simple parts assembly The real challenge is long-sequence complex tasks with 20+ steps—success rates struggle here especially when handling tiny parts Whole-body teleoperation is the key technical breakthrough for capturing high-quality physical world data to solve the industry's data scarcity Standardization is now the priority—setting unified task metrics, evaluation systems, and safety baselines to move beyond one-off lab innovations In 2025 Unitree shipped over 5,500 humanoids with more than 6,500 units coming off the production line leading the global market in volume The end goal is clear—Unitree wants humanoids working in its own factories to manufacture even more robots, closing the automation loop Source: HEIS Annual Meeting #Robot #Humanoid #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #Unitree #SmartManufacturing #Automation
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How humanoids move from "Kung Fu" mode to "Blue-collar" work 🤖🦾 Unitree founder Xingxing Wang just dropped some major truth bombs about the reality of robot labor at the HEIS meeting in Beijing Extreme mobility like the "Kung Fu" bot at the Gala is the prerequisite—stable movement is the foundation for robots to actually start working Unitree has been deploying humanoids at NIO and Geely since 2024 with a 100% success rate on single tasks like simple parts assembly The real challenge is long-sequence complex tasks with 20+ steps—success rates struggle here especially when handling tiny parts Whole-body teleoperation is the key technical breakthrough for capturing high-quality physical world data to solve the industry's data scarcity Standardization is now the priority—setting unified task metrics, evaluation systems, and safety baselines to move beyond one-off lab innovations In 2025 Unitree shipped over 5,500 humanoids with more than 6,500 units coming off the production line leading the global market in volume The end goal is clear—Unitree wants humanoids working in its own factories to manufacture even more robots, closing the automation loop Source: HEIS Annual Meeting #Robot #Humanoid #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #Unitree #SmartManufacturing #Automation

RoboHub🤖

31,755 views • 5 months ago

Who can say no to a humanoid robot that can actually feel a hug? 🤖 JQ Industries just built a fabric-based electronic skin for Unitree G1 — covering the torso, hands, and feet. This is not about appearance. It’s about giving robots real tactile sensing and pressure feedback. According to the company, the system includes tactile gloves, upper-body skin, and foot sensors. That means the robot can feel contact through its hands, detect pressure across its body, and use foot feedback to adjust balance. This is the missing layer in most humanoids. Vision alone can’t handle physical interaction. Robots need touch to grip safely, react to humans, and stay stable in real-world environments. JQ says its fiber sensors can detect forces as low as 0.01N, handle up to 3500kPa, and bend below 0.1mm radius. The system can also integrate with Isaac Sim, making tactile data usable for training and deployment. Unitree G1 is already built for manipulation and control — this adds the sensing layer it lacked. JQ says it’s now working with multiple humanoid companies, with some systems already shipping at scale. This is what happens when robots stop just seeing the world — and start physically feeling it.
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Who can say no to a humanoid robot that can actually feel a hug? 🤖 JQ Industries just built a fabric-based electronic skin for Unitree G1 — covering the torso, hands, and feet. This is not about appearance. It’s about giving robots real tactile sensing and pressure feedback. According to the company, the system includes tactile gloves, upper-body skin, and foot sensors. That means the robot can feel contact through its hands, detect pressure across its body, and use foot feedback to adjust balance. This is the missing layer in most humanoids. Vision alone can’t handle physical interaction. Robots need touch to grip safely, react to humans, and stay stable in real-world environments. JQ says its fiber sensors can detect forces as low as 0.01N, handle up to 3500kPa, and bend below 0.1mm radius. The system can also integrate with Isaac Sim, making tactile data usable for training and deployment. Unitree G1 is already built for manipulation and control — this adds the sensing layer it lacked. JQ says it’s now working with multiple humanoid companies, with some systems already shipping at scale. This is what happens when robots stop just seeing the world — and start physically feeling it.

RoboHub🤖

10,952 views • 4 months ago

🇺🇸🇨🇳 America's humanoid robots have a secret: they're full of Chinese parts. Nvidia's CEO showed off a robotic Olaf from Frozen at a major event. Impressive tech. One catch: the neck and legs move thanks to components from Chinese firm Unitree. Washington calls humanoid robotics a strategic industry. Beijing does too. They're building it together, whether they admit it or not. Source: WSJ
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🇺🇸🇨🇳 America's humanoid robots have a secret: they're full of Chinese parts. Nvidia's CEO showed off a robotic Olaf from Frozen at a major event. Impressive tech. One catch: the neck and legs move thanks to components from Chinese firm Unitree. Washington calls humanoid robotics a strategic industry. Beijing does too. They're building it together, whether they admit it or not. Source: WSJ

Mario Nawfal

58,710 views • 4 months ago

Type of stuff Cloak does cause his body is portal, he does with everything from energy blast to projectiles lmfaooo he also has pocket dimensions inside the Darkforce where he keeps creatures he WILL launch at you mid battle lol
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Type of stuff Cloak does cause his body is portal, he does with everything from energy blast to projectiles lmfaooo he also has pocket dimensions inside the Darkforce where he keeps creatures he WILL launch at you mid battle lol

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JUST IN: Unitree Robotics just unveiled the GD01, a manned "mecha" robot that transforms between two legs and four legs in real time. This is not a concept. This is a product. Starting price: $574,000. This robot weighs 500kg, is built from high-strength alloy, and has a torso-mounted cockpit. The demo video shows it walking upright, knocking down a brick wall with its hand, then reconfiguring into a four-legged crawl. Unitree calls it the world's first mass-produced transformable mecha. But the real story here is the bigger picture. Chinese companies accounted for nearly 90% of global humanoid robot sales in 2025. Unitree alone shipped 5,500+ humanoid robots last year. In the same period, Tesla, Figure AI and Agility Robotics each shipped around 150. And Unitree is now filing for an IPO on Shanghai's Star Market, targeting 4.2 billion yuan, 85% of which goes straight into R&D. The West is building incredible humanoid robots. China is building them faster, cheaper and at a scale nobody else is close to matching. Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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JUST IN: Unitree Robotics just unveiled the GD01, a manned "mecha" robot that transforms between two legs and four legs in real time. This is not a concept. This is a product. Starting price: $574,000. This robot weighs 500kg, is built from high-strength alloy, and has a torso-mounted cockpit. The demo video shows it walking upright, knocking down a brick wall with its hand, then reconfiguring into a four-legged crawl. Unitree calls it the world's first mass-produced transformable mecha. But the real story here is the bigger picture. Chinese companies accounted for nearly 90% of global humanoid robot sales in 2025. Unitree alone shipped 5,500+ humanoid robots last year. In the same period, Tesla, Figure AI and Agility Robotics each shipped around 150. And Unitree is now filing for an IPO on Shanghai's Star Market, targeting 4.2 billion yuan, 85% of which goes straight into R&D. The West is building incredible humanoid robots. China is building them faster, cheaper and at a scale nobody else is close to matching. Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

11,580 views • 3 months ago

No one could turn down a humanoid robot with human-like tactile sensitivity. JQ Industries equipped the Unitree G1 humanoid robot with a fabric-based electronic skin (piezoresistive flexible tactile sensors). A light touch can convert pressure, deformation, and slip into electrical signals, which are then processed by AI for real-time closed-loop control.(Integrates NVIDIA Isaac Sim) With this skin,humanoid robots start to behave more naturally: Touch sensing is no longer limited to dexterous hands,the entire body can feel, allowing the robot to stop or adjust posture instantly during collisions. It can also detect hugs, taps on the shoulder, or gentle touches, and respond in a softer, more human-like way. This matters especially in elder care and medical rehabilitation. A humanoid robot could gently help someone stand up, or control force precisely during assisted massage without harming the skin. Rigid mechanical systems deliver superhuman physical strength, while flexible sensing systems enable nuanced emotions. Electronic skin bridges high intelligence and high emotional intelligence.
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No one could turn down a humanoid robot with human-like tactile sensitivity. JQ Industries equipped the Unitree G1 humanoid robot with a fabric-based electronic skin (piezoresistive flexible tactile sensors). A light touch can convert pressure, deformation, and slip into electrical signals, which are then processed by AI for real-time closed-loop control.(Integrates NVIDIA Isaac Sim) With this skin,humanoid robots start to behave more naturally: Touch sensing is no longer limited to dexterous hands,the entire body can feel, allowing the robot to stop or adjust posture instantly during collisions. It can also detect hugs, taps on the shoulder, or gentle touches, and respond in a softer, more human-like way. This matters especially in elder care and medical rehabilitation. A humanoid robot could gently help someone stand up, or control force precisely during assisted massage without harming the skin. Rigid mechanical systems deliver superhuman physical strength, while flexible sensing systems enable nuanced emotions. Electronic skin bridges high intelligence and high emotional intelligence.

CyberRobo

22,118 views • 4 months ago

Big news from the TeleAI embodied intelligence team! They unveiled TextOp, a general cerebellar framework for real-time, text-driven humanoid control. TextOp lets humans control the robot via natural language, dynamically modifying instructions during runtime to instantly generate smooth, whole-body actions. This enables precise and highly versatile control. The framework uses a two-layer architecture: an action diffusion model (High-Level) and a general motion tracking policy (Low-Level). It’s a new paradigm that eliminates the need for pre-recorded scripts or manual programming.
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Big news from the TeleAI embodied intelligence team! They unveiled TextOp, a general cerebellar framework for real-time, text-driven humanoid control. TextOp lets humans control the robot via natural language, dynamically modifying instructions during runtime to instantly generate smooth, whole-body actions. This enables precise and highly versatile control. The framework uses a two-layer architecture: an action diffusion model (High-Level) and a general motion tracking policy (Low-Level). It’s a new paradigm that eliminates the need for pre-recorded scripts or manual programming.

RoboHub🤖

24,297 views • 8 months ago

Unitree Robotics just filed to go public on March 20th targeting a $7 billion valuation. Most people have no idea what this company actually is. Here is why this might be the most important robotics IPO of the decade. Unitree shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025. Figure AI shipped roughly 150. Agility Robotics shipped roughly 150. Unitree did $246 million in revenue last year, up 335% year over year, and they are actually profitable. Figure AI is valued at $39 billion with near zero revenue and is still private. Unitree wants $7 billion with real numbers. The price point is what separates them from everyone else. Their G1 humanoid sells for $13,500. Competitors charge $50,000 to $130,000. Their newest R1 humanoid launching in April starts at $4,900. Nothing comparable exists at that price anywhere in the world. They hold roughly 32% of the global humanoid market and 70% of the quadruped market. The moat is vertical integration. They self develop over 90% of core components including motors, reducers, controllers, sensors, and all software. Real clients include PetroChina, Sinopec, State Grid, and China Mobile. This is not a research project. Product is shipping at scale. This is listing on China's STAR Market, not Hong Kong, not the US, which makes access extremely difficult for international investors. The risks are real. The US House Select Committee on the CCP has formally requested Unitree be blacklisted. Their robots appeared in PLA military exercises in 2024. Tariffs have already nearly tripled the US price of the G1. $TSLA Optimus is targeting sub $20,000 pricing with automotive scale manufacturing backed by $NVDA compute. If they execute, the price advantage shrinks fast. But this is still the only profitable pure play humanoid robotics company in the world growing at 335% a year, valued at a fraction of its loss making peers. Goldman projects the humanoid market at $38 billion by 2035. Morgan Stanley goes to $5 trillion by 2050. Unitree currently holds the largest market share of any humanoid manufacturer on the planet. Full breakdown coming soon. $TSLA $NVDA
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Unitree Robotics just filed to go public on March 20th targeting a $7 billion valuation. Most people have no idea what this company actually is. Here is why this might be the most important robotics IPO of the decade. Unitree shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025. Figure AI shipped roughly 150. Agility Robotics shipped roughly 150. Unitree did $246 million in revenue last year, up 335% year over year, and they are actually profitable. Figure AI is valued at $39 billion with near zero revenue and is still private. Unitree wants $7 billion with real numbers. The price point is what separates them from everyone else. Their G1 humanoid sells for $13,500. Competitors charge $50,000 to $130,000. Their newest R1 humanoid launching in April starts at $4,900. Nothing comparable exists at that price anywhere in the world. They hold roughly 32% of the global humanoid market and 70% of the quadruped market. The moat is vertical integration. They self develop over 90% of core components including motors, reducers, controllers, sensors, and all software. Real clients include PetroChina, Sinopec, State Grid, and China Mobile. This is not a research project. Product is shipping at scale. This is listing on China's STAR Market, not Hong Kong, not the US, which makes access extremely difficult for international investors. The risks are real. The US House Select Committee on the CCP has formally requested Unitree be blacklisted. Their robots appeared in PLA military exercises in 2024. Tariffs have already nearly tripled the US price of the G1. $TSLA Optimus is targeting sub $20,000 pricing with automotive scale manufacturing backed by $NVDA compute. If they execute, the price advantage shrinks fast. But this is still the only profitable pure play humanoid robotics company in the world growing at 335% a year, valued at a fraction of its loss making peers. Goldman projects the humanoid market at $38 billion by 2035. Morgan Stanley goes to $5 trillion by 2050. Unitree currently holds the largest market share of any humanoid manufacturer on the planet. Full breakdown coming soon. $TSLA $NVDA

KawzInvests

74,078 views • 4 months ago

Not a preplanned motion sequence. A robot deciding mid-jump what to do next. [📍 paper + demo] Researchers just showed a humanoid doing real parkour using only onboard perception. No motion script, no fixed obstacle layout. The system is called Perceptive Humanoid Parkour (PHP). Instead of memorizing a path, the robot reads depth from its cameras and continuously chooses actions. Step, vault, climb, or roll depending on what geometry appears in front of it. To make that possible, they combine three ideas: First, they stitch together human motion clips into long movement references so the robot learns fluid transitions instead of isolated tricks. Second, they train tracking policies with reinforcement learning so contacts land at the right time and the robot keeps balance during dynamic moves. Finally, everything is distilled into one perception policy that runs directly from depth input to action selection. The result on a Unitree G1: about 3 m/s vaults wall climbs up to 1.25 m nearly one minute continuous obstacle traversal adapting when obstacles move What matters is not the tricks. It is the shift in capability. Earlier humanoids executed motions. This one navigates situations. Once robots react to geometry instead of replaying trajectories, environments stop needing to be predictable. Warehouses, homes, and outdoors suddenly become the same problem. Thanks for sharing, Zhen Wu! Paper + demo: ——— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:
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Not a preplanned motion sequence. A robot deciding mid-jump what to do next. [📍 paper + demo] Researchers just showed a humanoid doing real parkour using only onboard perception. No motion script, no fixed obstacle layout. The system is called Perceptive Humanoid Parkour (PHP). Instead of memorizing a path, the robot reads depth from its cameras and continuously chooses actions. Step, vault, climb, or roll depending on what geometry appears in front of it. To make that possible, they combine three ideas: First, they stitch together human motion clips into long movement references so the robot learns fluid transitions instead of isolated tricks. Second, they train tracking policies with reinforcement learning so contacts land at the right time and the robot keeps balance during dynamic moves. Finally, everything is distilled into one perception policy that runs directly from depth input to action selection. The result on a Unitree G1: about 3 m/s vaults wall climbs up to 1.25 m nearly one minute continuous obstacle traversal adapting when obstacles move What matters is not the tricks. It is the shift in capability. Earlier humanoids executed motions. This one navigates situations. Once robots react to geometry instead of replaying trajectories, environments stop needing to be predictable. Warehouses, homes, and outdoors suddenly become the same problem. Thanks for sharing, Zhen Wu! Paper + demo: ——— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

Ilir Aliu

22,080 views • 5 months ago

New framework: Kick down your robot, it will get back up every time 🥋 Chinese startup RoboParty is a Beijing startup founded April 2025 by Huang Yi, originally shipping ROBOTO ORIGIN, the world's first full-stack open-source bipedal humanoid. They released UFO: Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Framework for Humanoid Control. DEFINITIONS -> what differs is where the learning signal comes from: - SUPERVISED: humans supply the right answers (labels), the model imitates them. - UNSUPERVISED: no answer key, the model finds structure in raw data on its own. - REINFORCEMENT LEARNING: no answer key either, the model tries things and a reward scores each attempt. → UNSUPERVISED RL: trial and error where the agent invents its own rewards, instead of engineers hand-writing one per task. REPRESENTATION LEARNING: compress raw states into a useful internal map. TEMPORAL DISTANCE: distance on that map is "how many steps from A to B." CONTRASTIVE: trained by pulling together what's close in time, pushing apart what isn't. -> CONTRASTIVE TEMPORAL-DISTANCE REPRESENTATION LEARNING: the model builds an internal map of body states where distance means how many steps it takes to get from one to another. It is trained by contrast: states that occur close together in a movement get pulled together in the map, randomly paired states get pushed apart. UFO is an open-source training framework that teaches humanoid robots skills, like getting up, walking, goal-reaching, teleoperation, without reference motions -> no motion-capture or human-video demonstrations to imitate. Its core is TeCH, a contrastive temporal-distance representation-learning algorithm: the robot explores, builds pseudo-goals by temporal rolling, and learns goal-conditioned policies from a single unified progress reward. One framework trains five different robots (Unitree G1/H1, RoboParty RP0/RP1, AgiBot X2) with automatic config conversion in ~2–3 hours per robot! The real novelty here "no demonstrations at all". No data-collection arms race,the dominant humanoid-locomotion recipe is tracking: imitate mocap/retargeted-human reference trajectories. The robot self-generates goals from its own exploration and learns from a progress reward, needing zero reference motion data. Everybody else is fighting over data acquisition, while this team just teleports out of the race entirely (inb4 "competition is for losers 💀 ). This strategy reminds me of the DeepSeek playbook applied to robots: open-source the whole stack to become the global default and commoditize everyone else. RoboParty is giving away hardware and now control software (UFO) to be the Android of humanoids. Yet another reason for the US to ban Chinese open models perhaps 🥶 ? What I also really like about this approach is the cross-embodiment infrastructure, one framework trains Unitree G1/H1, RoboParty RP0/RP1, and AgiBot X2 with automatic configuration conversion. Just like Physical Intelligence, RoboParty seems to place itself as a neutral hardware agnostic middle man. Also woth mentioning: their ability ot perform stable skill injection, e.g. adding a cartwheel without forgetting how to walk. A common failure of RL humanoid policies is that teaching a new agile skill destabilizes the existing ones (catastrophic forgetting). UFO claims you can inject rare motions (cartwheel) without collapsing learned behavior. If it holds, that's a significant incremental/continual skill-learning! But again, I have to underline it: no arXiv, no external validation, no success-rate numbers. -> robotics badely needs an independent unbiased evaluator imho. Still, look at that cool demo: robot is getting kicked and pushed around (serious disturbance) during teleoperation (controlled the person at the back wearing the VR headset), and still managed to always get back up. This is some serious demonstration of stability and robustness!
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New framework: Kick down your robot, it will get back up every time 🥋 Chinese startup RoboParty is a Beijing startup founded April 2025 by Huang Yi, originally shipping ROBOTO ORIGIN, the world's first full-stack open-source bipedal humanoid. They released UFO: Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning Framework for Humanoid Control. DEFINITIONS -> what differs is where the learning signal comes from: - SUPERVISED: humans supply the right answers (labels), the model imitates them. - UNSUPERVISED: no answer key, the model finds structure in raw data on its own. - REINFORCEMENT LEARNING: no answer key either, the model tries things and a reward scores each attempt. → UNSUPERVISED RL: trial and error where the agent invents its own rewards, instead of engineers hand-writing one per task. REPRESENTATION LEARNING: compress raw states into a useful internal map. TEMPORAL DISTANCE: distance on that map is "how many steps from A to B." CONTRASTIVE: trained by pulling together what's close in time, pushing apart what isn't. -> CONTRASTIVE TEMPORAL-DISTANCE REPRESENTATION LEARNING: the model builds an internal map of body states where distance means how many steps it takes to get from one to another. It is trained by contrast: states that occur close together in a movement get pulled together in the map, randomly paired states get pushed apart. UFO is an open-source training framework that teaches humanoid robots skills, like getting up, walking, goal-reaching, teleoperation, without reference motions -> no motion-capture or human-video demonstrations to imitate. Its core is TeCH, a contrastive temporal-distance representation-learning algorithm: the robot explores, builds pseudo-goals by temporal rolling, and learns goal-conditioned policies from a single unified progress reward. One framework trains five different robots (Unitree G1/H1, RoboParty RP0/RP1, AgiBot X2) with automatic config conversion in ~2–3 hours per robot! The real novelty here "no demonstrations at all". No data-collection arms race,the dominant humanoid-locomotion recipe is tracking: imitate mocap/retargeted-human reference trajectories. The robot self-generates goals from its own exploration and learns from a progress reward, needing zero reference motion data. Everybody else is fighting over data acquisition, while this team just teleports out of the race entirely (inb4 "competition is for losers 💀 ). This strategy reminds me of the DeepSeek playbook applied to robots: open-source the whole stack to become the global default and commoditize everyone else. RoboParty is giving away hardware and now control software (UFO) to be the Android of humanoids. Yet another reason for the US to ban Chinese open models perhaps 🥶 ? What I also really like about this approach is the cross-embodiment infrastructure, one framework trains Unitree G1/H1, RoboParty RP0/RP1, and AgiBot X2 with automatic configuration conversion. Just like Physical Intelligence, RoboParty seems to place itself as a neutral hardware agnostic middle man. Also woth mentioning: their ability ot perform stable skill injection, e.g. adding a cartwheel without forgetting how to walk. A common failure of RL humanoid policies is that teaching a new agile skill destabilizes the existing ones (catastrophic forgetting). UFO claims you can inject rare motions (cartwheel) without collapsing learned behavior. If it holds, that's a significant incremental/continual skill-learning! But again, I have to underline it: no arXiv, no external validation, no success-rate numbers. -> robotics badely needs an independent unbiased evaluator imho. Still, look at that cool demo: robot is getting kicked and pushed around (serious disturbance) during teleoperation (controlled the person at the back wearing the VR headset), and still managed to always get back up. This is some serious demonstration of stability and robustness!

Léo

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Dodging randomly thrown balls doesn’t seem that difficult… Shanghai-based EmbodyDeep tested their CereBase 3.0, a powerful real-time motion model, on the Unitree G1. The robot dodges incoming soccer balls with lifelike reflexes: instantly detecting the ball, predicting its trajectory, and smoothly stepping, twisting, or crouching while staying perfectly balanced. --- This breakthrough in perceptual-motor control brings us closer to human-like conditioned reflexes in complex, uncertain environments. I have to say, this kind of reactive ability is truly necessary--it will allow humanoid robots to safely navigate crowded factories, assist in homes with unpredictable human movements, and operate reliably in disaster zones full of sudden obstacles.
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Dodging randomly thrown balls doesn’t seem that difficult… Shanghai-based EmbodyDeep tested their CereBase 3.0, a powerful real-time motion model, on the Unitree G1. The robot dodges incoming soccer balls with lifelike reflexes: instantly detecting the ball, predicting its trajectory, and smoothly stepping, twisting, or crouching while staying perfectly balanced. --- This breakthrough in perceptual-motor control brings us closer to human-like conditioned reflexes in complex, uncertain environments. I have to say, this kind of reactive ability is truly necessary--it will allow humanoid robots to safely navigate crowded factories, assist in homes with unpredictable human movements, and operate reliably in disaster zones full of sudden obstacles.

CyberRobo

20,684 views • 2 months ago