Unitree Robotics says its humanoid robots achieved fully autonomous combat

Unitree says its humanoid robots can fight autonomously

Unitree Robotics released a video on September 7 claiming its UnifoLM-X2-1.0 model had overcome obstacles in instant planning, decision-making and dynamic interaction, enabling humanoid robots to fight fully autonomously. The company said the system supports real-time prediction and planning in high-dynamic, interactive situations.

The report said Unitree founder and chairman Wang Xingxing described the company’s current work as including factory collaborations and simple task tests at its own factory, but not large-scale deployment. Wang identified robots’ limited ability to generalize across unfamiliar environments as a major industry bottleneck, and said robots completing about 80% of daily tasks from language or text instructions could be two to three years away, or five to 10 years away.

Economic Information Daily names URKL sponsors and revenue plans

Economic Information Daily, a Xinhua-run newspaper, reported that the Shenzhen branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China was the first season’s “core financial partner” for EngineAI’s humanoid robot fighting league, URKL. It listed Baidu AI Cloud, Tuozhu Technology, Fiyta, Tianhong Group, Tongshifu and C Yinli as event sponsor partners. The paper did not disclose contract values, terms or sponsor benefits, and the sponsor list rests on that report alone.

The newspaper listed five commercial directions for URKL: event operation, brand sponsorship, media rights, intellectual property licensing and derivative content. It also reported plans to expand into tourism venues, brand partnerships and technology incubation, with signings under way involving multiple cities, brands and industry partners, without naming a city beyond Shenzhen.

Reports differ on whether EngineAI’s URKL robots fight autonomously

Jiemian News’ launch profile of URKL listed remote control or autonomous operation as the control modes, and quoted EngineAI chief executive Zhao Tongyang saying fully autonomous free fighting would be the future. The profile described a planned 16-team competition and a prize of up to 10 million yuan, details that later reporting said had changed.

Science and Technology Daily’s report on URKL’s September 19 Shanghai stop described EngineAI T800 robots as fully autonomous, citing perception, tracking, tactical decision-making and motion planning systems. It also described robots entering the cage on their own and quoted a technical staff member calling the crowd a test of autonomous competition. The report did not provide a scoring method or round structure, while other coverage described hybrid control in which an operator gives commands and a robot executes them.