Unitree just unveiled the H2-X, a humanoid robot dubbed the Kung Fu Legend Guardian designed for service and security. The robot boasts up to 8 hours of battery life and can perform martial arts movements. Unitree also reminded users to operate the machine safely and responsibly.
Unitree just teased a new humanoid robot nicknamed "Superman" that can hit a top speed of 12.66 m/s and jump 2 meters high from a standing start. With 0.85-meter legs and just over three months in development, the company claims it already beats all human records, with more performance gains expected soon.
NVIDIA just unveiled MotionBricks, a unified motion generation framework that hits 15,000 FPS with just 2ms latency on a single neural backbone. It handles over 350,000 motion skills, animating Unreal Engine 5 characters and directly controlling physical Unitree G1 humanoid robots without task retraining. Why it matters: It bridges the long-standing gap between game animation and real-world robotics with one shared brain, and early preview code is already on GitHub.
NVIDIA just unveiled the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei, an open blueprint that pairs a Unitree H2 Plus chassis and Sharpa tactile hands with its new Jetson Thor AI computer. It covers the full stack from simulation to real-world deployment, aiming to save researchers from cobbling together fragmented hardware and software. Stanford, ETH Zurich, and Ai2 are already on board, with hardware shipping late 2026.
Unitree just unveiled the GD01, a transformable manned mecha starting at $650,000. Billed as the world's first production-ready manned mecha, the civilian vehicle weighs roughly 500 kilograms with an operator inside and is capable of transforming. Unitree urged future pilots to operate the machine in a "friendly and safe manner."
Chinese researchers just taught a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to play tennis using only five hours of imperfect motion-capture data. Through a framework called LATENT, the robot can track footwork, return balls traveling over 15 m/s with 90% accuracy, and sustain multi-shot rallies against human players.
Unitree just revealed behind-the-scenes details of its Lunar New Year showcase, where dozens of G1 humanoids performed the world's first fully autonomous cluster kung fu routine with zero teleoperation. The demo also featured an H2 robot dressed as the Monkey King riding quadruped "clouds," proving multi-humanoid physical coordination is advancing rapidly.
Researchers just introduced ASAP, a two-stage framework that bridges the sim-to-real physics gap for humanoid robots. By pairing simulated pre-training with a real-world residual action model, the team demonstrated agile whole-body skills on a Unitree G1 robot with significantly reduced tracking errors. Why it matters: It offers a practical path to dynamic robot agility without manual parameter tuning.
Unitree just achieved a standing backflip with its H1 humanoid, making it the first bipedal robot to land the trick using electric joint motors instead of heavy hydraulics. Trained via reinforcement learning simulation, the bot relies on custom M107 motors pushing 360 Nm of torque. It is a major proof point for electric dynamic agility.
