A hot potato: Recent efforts by tech companies to develop increasingly human-like autonomous robots have invited endless comparisons to the Terminator films. While the criticisms are usually made in ...

Chinese company Unitree is unleashing robotic dogs to fight fires in all kinds of real-world disaster scenarios.

Pillay is an editorial fellow at TIME. A humanoid robot from Unitree Robotics during the Global Developer Conference in Shanghai on Feb. 21, 2025. At this year’s Spring Festival Gala—China’s ...

Unitree just dropped its latest creation, the R1 humanoid robot, and people are talking. At only $5,900, it's the most affordable bipedal robot we've seen so far. The low price has taken the tech ...

A Unitree humanoid robot performs Thursday, the first day of the Mobile World Conference in Shanghai. Unitree Robotics, a Hangzhou-based maker of humanoid robots whose founder recently met with ...

A robot dances at the stand of Unitree Robotics, at the Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025.

What just happened? Elon Musk has long said he envisions a world where every household has a humanoid robot, but one of several factors preventing this scenario from becoming a reality is the machines ...

What if the future of robotics wasn’t confined to industrial labs or sci-fi movies but could be held in your hands, ready to teach, learn, and innovate alongside you? Enter the Unitree R1, a humanoid ...

Chinese robotics firm Unitree has launched the R1, its most affordable humanoid robot, at a shockingly low asking price of US$5,900. It's hard to fathom that you can now get a walking, command-obeying ...

Chinese startup Unitree Robotics has become a star on the emerging humanoid robot stage over the past two years, after a dancing performance by its products on China's widely watched Lunar New Year's ...

Unitree Robotics recently dazzled us with its R1 humanoid robot, and now it’s unveiled something even more astonishing: a super-robust dog-like robot called the A2 Stellar Explorer. In a video ...