The 2026 World Physical AI Conference and Unitree Partner Ecosystem Conference was held today in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Wang Xingxing, Chairman, General Manager, and Chief Technology Officer of Unitree Technology, took the stage and broke the company's future strategy down into three clear lines.
The first line is production capacity. Wang Xingxing emphasized raising the ability to mass-produce robots at scale, targeting a future market of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. In his vision, robots must move from "being able to build a few units" to "being able to build millions of units," with scale itself serving as the moat. The second line takes a compound route of "in-house development + cooperation," pushing physical AI small models adapted to the company's own hardware toward real-world implementation. The third line bets on infrastructure—laying out ultra-large-scale computing clusters to lay the foundation for technological iteration.
Direction alone is not enough: Unitree is also building a robot self-evolution system, using a closed loop of "AI autonomous R&D—simulation training—real-world testing—feedback iteration" to replace the old path of repeated manual debugging, pushing algorithm iteration efficiency upward.
Spending big to launch the World Physical AI Competition
Even more eye-catching is the competition. Wang Xingxing officially announced the "World Physical AI Competition" on site, pledging to invest tens of millions of RMB in prize money every year, opening the doors to teams and individuals worldwide.
There are eight competition tracks in total: arbitrary mobility, athletics, combat, dexterous manipulation, production, sports events, multimodal interaction, and health care. There are hardcore confrontations like combat and athletics, as well as practical application scenarios like health care and production, balancing showmanship and utility. Breaking the competition down into specific capability dimensions has a clear purpose—gathering the world's smartest minds around physical AI and continuously pushing the boundaries of technology.