Unitree Technology's Wang Xingxing: The Biggest Bottleneck for Humanoid Robots Is Alignment with the Physical World, Not Model Understanding

At the Hongqiao sub-forum of the China International Import Expo, Unitree Technology's Wang Xingxing judged that humanoid robots already possess strong understanding and planning capabilities; what is truly holding back large-scale deployment is the "last few millimeters" alignment error between multimodal models and the physical world's inputs and outputs, and he expects this link to be solved within the next 1–2 years. In the first half of this year, China's humanoid robot shipments already exceeded 40,000 units, accounting for 97% globally, and are expected to surpass 100,000 units for the full year. Unitree's G1 has become the world's best-selling humanoid robot; in 2024 it was already deployed in automobile factories, with a success rate approaching 100% for fixed-station processes.