Wang Xingxing makes his first public speech after Unitree’s listing
Unitree founder Wang Xingxing spoke publicly for the first time after the company went public, using the 2026 World Robot Conference to lay out his latest view on where the robot industry is headed. He said the sector’s inflection point will arrive when robots can complete 80% of tasks in 80% of unfamiliar scenarios through voice commands. In his view, that could happen in as little as 2 to 3 years, or take 5 to 10 years.
Wang said the biggest bottleneck today is the lack of precision in aligning AI model input and output with the physical world. Robots can carry out tasks in broad terms, but errors of just a few centimeters or even millimeters cannot be corrected, which drags down success rates. He contrasted that with language models, which he described as lossless, while noting that robots accumulate deviations every time they take in and send out information.
Unitree wants large models to run the development loop
To address that problem, Unitree is pushing a new direction: having large AI models write code, run simulations, test on real machines and score the results on their own. Wang said that would create a self-improving cycle, and that development efficiency would rise exponentially as foundational model capabilities improve.
A look back at Unitree’s 10-year milestones
Wang also revisited several milestones in Unitree’s 10-year history, including its Spring Festival Gala performance, the 49-robot formation at the Temple of Heaven, and a 12.65 m/s speed breakthrough.