Unitree

On Sept. 22, 2026, four Unitree humanoid robots walked the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II runway during Act IV "The Age of Intelligence" at Vogue World 2026: Milano.

Unitree said on Sept. 21, 2026, that it is selling the Dex5-S, a five-finger robot hand the size of a human hand with 22 motor-driven joints, from $6,500 before tax and shipping. According to news reports in China, touch sensing comes only on a Pro version. An industry newsletter noted that Unitree had not yet published force, speed or durability data for the hand.

Chinese regulators are quietly slowing humanoid-robot companies' plans to go public after Unitree's volatile stock market debut, according to a news report on Sept. 21, 2026. The report's sources describe informal guidance from regulators, not a published ban, and they disagree on whether it amounts to a freeze. It is not yet clear whether the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) will publish a rule for the sector.

Unitree says its UnifoLM-X2-1.0 AI drove a G1 humanoid robot through a sparring match with a person, with no one steering it remotely and no scripted moves. The company released no test results, and a news report says the footage hints that some of the computing may happen on a separate computer rather than on the robot.