Robots set for ChatGPT moment in 10 years, says Unitree CEO
Humanoid robots could hit a “ChatGPT moment” within two to three years under ideal conditions, and five to ten if progress stalls, Unitree founder Wang Xingxing stated at the World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday. His statements come just one day after his company’s Shanghai listing saw the stock surge more than 460% before it dipped.
Unitree CEO describes tipping point
Wang mentioned his targets for the industry’s ambitions, stating he wants a robot that can walk into a home or workplace it has never seen and finish about 80% of tasks using only spoken or typed instructions. He described the same benchmark as about 80% of tasks across 80% of unfamiliar settings, and called it “an important tipping point for the robot industry to usher in explosive growth.”
When OpenAI’s chatbot launched in late 2022, it moved LLMs from being just a lab novelty to a product that was marketed en-masse in a matter of weeks. Models that let machines read and navigate physical space have had nothing of such, and the Unitree CEO believes the robot industry is still waiting for its own version of that leap.
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