Unitree's Wang: robot stability improved, but fights less dramatic than a year ago

At the Hongqiao International Economic Forum on 5 November, Unitree founder and chairman Wang Xingxing said that robot fighting demonstrations have become less visually engaging than they were a year ago. He attributed the change to improved robot stability: robots that previously fell more often now stay upright through impacts, reducing the number of dramatic knockdown moments that made fights compelling to watch.

Wang said Unitree proposed autonomous robot fighting in 2025, and described the company's recent progress using an end-to-end world model. Two robots now conduct fully autonomous fights in real time, collecting visual input and reasoning directly to decisions. Wang said the robots can currently execute 15 to 20 actions, and theoretically could execute hundreds or thousands of combined actions with further training.

Wang also discussed Unitree's work on AI model self-evolution loops, in which robots automatically collect and label data, train models, generate evaluation metrics and iterate without human intervention. He said deploying 10,000 test robots would be feasible for Unitree and would create a feedback loop that accelerates improvement as more data accumulates.