Unitree founder now expects humanoid robots to nail 80% of tasks by 2028, crediting GPT-6
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-23
Unitree founder Wang Xingxing has sharply pulled forward his humanoid robot timeline in a Bloomberg interview:
- He previously predicted mass deployment could take 10 years; now he expects humanoids to complete assigned verbal tasks with 80% success by 2028
- He credits recent models like OpenAI's GPT-6: Unitree humanoids can now paint, rinse a palette between colors, and place Go stones precisely
- Photo shows the Unitree G1 humanoid on display ahead of the World Robot Conference in Beijing
A notable signal that frontier-model capability spillover is compressing embodied AI timelines from a decade to two years.
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