Rise of the KUNG FU robots! Watch as China’s humanoids perform kicks, flips, and nunchuck moves – while standing metres away from children
By SHIVALI BEST, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
Four humanoid robot startups – Unitree Robotics, Galbot, Noetix and MagicLab – demonstrated their products at the gala, which was held on Monday in Beijing.
During Unitree’s segment, dozens of its G1 robots took to the stage, clad in what Unitree calls the ‘Monkey King’s heavy armor’.
The fight sequences included a technically ambitious one that imitated the wobbly moves and backward falls of China’s ‘drunken boxing’ martial arts style.
This particular sequence allowed Unitree to show off its innovations in multi–robot coordination and fault recovery – where a robot can get up after falling down.
‘Dozens of G1 robots achieved the world’s first fully autonomous humanoid robot cluster Kung Fu performance (with quick movement), pushing motion limits and setting multiple world firsts!’ Unitree explained in the description of its YouTube video.