Unitree robots just took the stage at the AGT 2026 finale with a stunning water sleeve dance performance. The performance was so human-like that the judges literally started arguing over whether they were robots or real people.

Unitree Launches A Humanoid Robot Hand for $6,000 Unitree Robotics is attacking the dextrous hand bottleneck with the Dex5-S, a dexterous robotic hand with 22 degrees of freedom, up from 20 in its previous model The new hand weighs 620 grams, supports a maximum payload of 2 kg and a continuous working load of 1 kg. The Pro version adds tactile sensing Prices start at $6,000 per hand

Unitree Introducing: Unitree Dex5-S Dexterous Hand 22 Degrees of Freedom 1:1 Real-Hand Size👋 Precision biomimetic dexterous hand, price from $6.5K (Tax and Shipping cost excluded), with all 22 joints supporting smooth backdrivability, and each joint equipped with limit impact torque protection.

Unitree’s shares soared over 600% at their Shanghai debut. By September 15, they were down 57% from the opening price. Now China’s robot IPO pipeline faces closer scrutiny—but reports of tougher reviews aren’t confirmed postponements.

Unitree General-Purpose Humanoid Foundation Model Fully Upgrade Major Open Source🥳 Unitree majorly fully open-sources the UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 embodied foundation model, achieving new SOTA results across multiple benchmarks among open-source models worldwide. A single model coordinates desktop and whole-body mobile manipulation, supporting cross-task and cross-end-effector generalization, driven by one model, whole-body coordination.

Unitree Breakthrough: The World’s First Real-Time World Model-Driven Fully Autonomous Humanoid Robot Combat🥊 UnifoLM-X2-1.0 breaks through world-action foundation models' bottlenecks in instant planning, decision-making, and dynamic interactive execution, achieve high dynamics, strong interaction, real-time prediction and planning of the future, achieve fully autonomous combat for humanoid robots. This validates the fundamental feasibility of large-scale deployment of world model-driven humanoid robots.

Unitree jumped 460% in its Shanghai debut, but first-day surges of that scale are far less unusual in China than they appear. The average A-share IPO rose 225% on its first trading day last year. Read more: