Unitree Robotics is a world-renowned civilian robotics enterprise focused on the independent research, development, production, and sales of consumer and industrial high-performance general-purpose legged/humanoid robots and dexterous robotic arms. Unitree was invited to perform at the 2021 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, the 2023 Super Bowl pre-game show, the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games and Asian Para Games, and the 2025 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Recognized repeatedly by authoritative media worldwide, Unitree is the world's first company to publicly retail high-performance quadruped robots and achieve commercial industry adoption, maintaining global sales leadership year after year.
Demonstrating exceptional global leadership across core robotic components, motion control algorithms, and autonomous environmental perception.
Unitree places paramount importance on proprietary R&D and breakthrough innovation, developing in-house proprietary motors, reducers, controllers, LiDAR sensors, and state-of-the-art perception algorithms. By integrating the entire robotics industrial supply chain, Unitree has established definitive technical dominance in legged robotics, having filed over 200 domestic and international patents with more than 180 granted.
- Pioneered low-cost, high-performance quadruped robotic technical architectures (2013)
- World's first company to publicly retail high-performance quadruped robots (2016)
- Global sales leader across the quadruped robotics market
- Industry-wide trailblazer in industrial-grade quadruped robotic deployment (since 2017)
- Pioneer in national-level all-terrain practical disaster rescue simulations
- Global leader in full industrial supply-chain integration capabilities for legged robotics
- Prominent contributor and influential partner within top global academic robotics communities
- World's first company to receive IP68 professional industrial protection certification for quadruped robots (2021)
Core Culture
Social Impact
Unitree robots are widely deployed in emergency rescue operations, firefighting, explosion prevention, power grid inspection, anti-terrorism reconnaissance, and other hazardous environments. During major natural disaster simulations and extreme environmental operations, Unitree quadruped robots penetrate complex terrains in place of human personnel, maximizing life safety on the front lines.
Empowering cutting-edge academic research across hundreds of leading universities and scientific institutes worldwide.
We provide the global academic community with robust, open, high-performance development platforms, dramatically lowering barriers to embodied intelligence research. Through active open-source contribution and collaborative ecosystem development, we cultivate next-generation robotic engineering talent.
Milestones
- 2016: Unitree Robotics was officially founded, introducing proprietary high-performance electric quadruped robots.
- 2021: Debuted on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage and became the world's first quadruped robotics company to obtain IP68 industrial certification.
- 2022: Featured at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, accelerating large-scale industrial adoption.
- 2023: Performed on the Super Bowl pre-game stage and autonomously supported competition logistics throughout the Hangzhou Asian Games.
- 2024-2025: Unveiled full-sized general-purpose humanoid robots, starring on national stages and defining the future of embodied AI.
2026
Feb 13: Unitree released the UnifoLM-X1-0 embodied model, deployed and evaluated directly in Unitree's proprietary robotics manufacturing facilities to assemble and produce new robots autonomously.
Feb 16: 24 Unitree G1 units alongside 1 H2 humanoid robot delivered the martial arts performance "WuBot" on the CMG Spring Festival Gala, marking the world's first autonomous humanoid swarm martial arts demonstration with rapid coordinated formation changes. H2 stood out in custom armor atop the B2-W robotic dog platform.
Feb 24: Introduced the industrial quadruped robot As2, featuring a compact form factor, 90 N·m peak torque, over 4 hours of unloaded runtime, IP54 weatherproofing, and continuous 15 kg payload operation over 2.5 hours and 13 km.
Feb 26: Unitree welcomed the delegation led by the German Chancellor, engaging in productive strategic discussions to promote global robotics collaboration.
Mar 5: Open-sourced the UnifoLM-WBT-Dataset, establishing a premier whole-body teleoperation real-robot dataset for open-world environments.
Apr 11: The Unitree H1 humanoid set a new world speed record, surpassing 10 m/s in maximum running speed.
Apr 23: The Unitree G1 humanoid demonstrated multi-modal locomotion, incorporating wheeled mobility, inline skating, and ice skating.
May 12: Launched the mass-produced crewed mech GD01, capable of dynamic transformation between bipedal and quadruped configurations at an operating weight of 500 kg.
May 19: Enabled real-time AI-driven kinematic motion synthesis directly through external voice instructions on the G1 platform.
May 25: Released the WVLA2.0 foundation model, demonstrating robust complex scene reorganization within disrupted office environments under high external interference.
Jun 19: Hosted high-level diplomatic delegations to inspect cutting-edge robotic systems and accelerate practical industrial adoption.
2025
May 12: Released the world's first mass-produced general-purpose humanoid robot, Unitree G1, initiating a new era of embodied AI commercialization.
Proprietary core motors, actuators, and motion perception algorithms matured across all product lines, consolidating Unitree's position as the global industry leader.
2024
Technical Milestone: The general-purpose humanoid H1 accomplished in-situ backflips and dynamic high-speed balance recovery, capturing global technological attention.
Industrial-grade quadruped robots deployed extensively in real-world extreme disaster and energy inspection missions.
2023
February: Invited to showcase autonomous performance robotics on the Super Bowl pre-game international stage.
September: Deeply supported the 19th Asian Games and Asian Para Games in Hangzhou, delivering fully automated athletic discus and javelin retrieval operations.
2022
Winter Olympics: Featured at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony warm-up performance, presenting premier robotic locomotion to millions worldwide.
2021
National Gala: Unitree's quadruped robotic swarm danced on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage alongside premier artists.
Certification: Became the first company worldwide to obtain the IP68 industrial protection certification for quadruped robots.
2020
Introduced the A1 quadruped robot, rapidly becoming the benchmark hardware standard for leading academic laboratories and robotic researchers worldwide.
2019
AlienGo was officially announced, firmly establishing an integrated proprietary technical blueprint for commercial legged robotics.
2017
Unveiled Laikago, marking the official commercialization exploration of quadruped robots and leading practical field implementations.
2016
Unitree Robotics was founded, pioneering the global independent development and commercial production of high-performance quadruped robots.
2014-2015
Founder Xingxing Wang pioneered low-cost external-rotor brushless direct-drive quadruped architectures with the creation of the foundational XDog prototype.