Unitree’s CEO says GPT-6 already works “very well” across multiple robots, with factory pilots underway—and GPT-7 could clear the remaining bottlenecks to mass deployment

[u/141_1337]

[u/DoubleGG123]

Bitter lesson strikes again.

[u/brett_baty_is_him → u/DoubleGG123]

It’s kind of crazy how often the bitter lesson proves true. It feels very much like moores law in its a very early call in a fast progressing industry that people continuously doubt until it’s just claimed to be the ultimate truth.

I still think LLMs are not the single solution for AGI but they are certainly proving to be a big piece of the puzzle.

[u/ShAfTsWoLo → u/brett_baty_is_him]

general intelligence is not something special, it just emerge through scaling, we are lucky to live in such reality where the bitter lesson keeps being proven right

[u/141_1337 → u/DoubleGG123]

Yan LeCun punching the air right now

[u/chlebseby]

[u/Szadbaverem69 → u/chlebseby]

Wdym I'm unemployed since GPT-2 🥀

[u/Charming_Cucumber_15 → u/Szadbaverem69]

GPT 2 took all the jobs 💔

[u/chlebseby → u/Szadbaverem69]

bro is living off inheritance😭

[u/Aydrianic → u/chlebseby]

https://giphy.com/gifs/2S3Aj8OeKtf0c

[u/space_monster → u/Aydrianic]

Jaerbs

[u/Knever → u/Aydrianic]

AYTUKURDOOBS

[u/crusoe]

Opus and Fable can also control robot arms via just a webcam which is freaking wild for a model not trained in that way.

[u/nsshing]

AGI concept is real. It’s really trending towards one model/ system can do everything

[u/cultureicon]

Man, its going to be creepy as fuck interacting with robots embodied with frontier models. People aren't going to be able to handle it. Already indistinguishable from a human if that's how they set its system prompt.

[u/Dredgefort]

Hang on, they can't beat the laws of physics. I assume they don't literally mean they have access to the GPT -6 weights and put it in a robot, since they're a Chinese firm, which means they're doing everything over the air. Maybe they're using a local model and GPT6 for higher level planning? If they're using GPT6 for movement that sounds terrifying, I don't want a robot with physical responsibilities carry that much latency (we're probably talking seconds rather than milliseconds, and what if the Wifi starts to chug?)

[u/FateOfMuffins → u/Dredgefort]

It's more like proof of concept. We've already even seen Haiku 5.5 do decently at robotic tasks and that thing is almost for sure smaller than GLM 5.3 Flash.

The point is that if just regular general LLMs can do this and the densing law of LLMs continues, then this will be solved in short order by LLMs rather than other robotic models.

[u/Stunning-Verb-9865 → u/Dredgefort]

Yes I have to imagine it’s calling other policies for navigation and manipulation, no way it’s outputting tokens that directly control movement. This is what the Stanford Homebody paper did that people here were freaking out about.

[u/IronPheasant → u/Dredgefort]

Some domains are less time sensitive than others. For a janitor or stockboy, they don't have to tussle with moving objects so it's perfect.

As always trusting something to drive a car or perform abdominal surgery will be the final threshold for when humanity has a fork in it. I assume the NPU will be necessary, but as always that's a post AGI thing.

[u/Boring-Foundation708 → u/Dredgefort]

For first version, I think this is reasonable and rapid improvement after that.

People always find gaps in this and the gaps are closed rapidly within 1 or 2 years

[u/space_monster → u/Dredgefort]

Hybrid - a local VLA model for locomotion etc. and remote over webRTC for reasoning

https://arxiv.org/html/2601.14921v1

[u/elmgarden → u/Dredgefort]

GPT is for the slower, high-level reasonings, not motion control. The embodied ability refers to the model mentally simulating a more complex/unfamiliar physical scenario before acting on it.

[u/BreadwheatInc]

Bullish on robot intelligence being solved late 2027. After that it's rounding the edges, efficiency and speed which the last two can arguably be easily solved with specialized hardware.

[u/141_1337]

Source:

https://m.sohu.com/a/1086684923_120988576/?pvid=000115_3w_a&scm=10001.325_13-325_13.0.0-0-0-0-0.5_1334

https://x.com/ZilanQian/status/2109581179137429760

[u/141_1337 → u/141_1337]

So I went and read the article and well it gets even better:

“AI is moving incredibly fast globally. Every one or two months, there’s a major update.”

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“After GPT-6 came out, it significantly changed how people in embodied AI think about what’s possible. We put GPT-6 on different robots and tested it across many tasks, and the results were very good.”

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“The inflection point may come relatively quickly — possibly within one or two years. GPT-7 next year could potentially break through the embodied-AI problem altogether.”

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“Unitree and other robotics companies are already running pilots in factories. For large-scale deployment, generalization and efficiency still need to improve, but those problems could be solved within the next few years.”

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“The biggest mistake I’ve made over the past decade-plus was not believing strongly enough in AI.”

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“Commercial-service robots may actually reach deployment faster than industrial robots.”

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“The threshold is when you can put a robot into roughly 80% of unfamiliar environments and, using only spoken or written instructions, it can successfully complete roughly 80% of the tasks.”

[u/AP_in_Indy → u/141_1337]

I wonder if they've tried a large-scale classifier model such as Jev.

Use GPT for broader analysis. Perhaps image / visual analysis as well.

Jev for actions based on instructions from ChatGPT.

[u/Efficient-Opinion-92]

Damn 

[u/ShittyBidet123]

https://giphy.com/gifs/5TD4dseytpaIhYbyWq

[u/getmeoutoftax]

Yeah, it’s over at this point. Jobs won’t be around for much longer.

[u/DukeRedWulf]

Assuming this is true, it's a Very Big Deal, and it will drastically narrow the time-window for an effective "General Strike for UBI"..

Basically, the clock's ticking loudly for those of us who have to work for a living..

[u/Work_Owl]

Does anyone know how these work? Latency is an issue and so does the llm create an instruction set? Surely you need lower latency approaches for reflexes?

[u/spreadlove5683 → u/Work_Owl]

assuming this is for setups that tolerate latency. ie not humanoids that have to balance constantly or fall over.

[u/reasonmonkey]

And distillation makes it possible to run a smaller but nearly equivalent model on smaller cheaper hardware.

2027 going to be the sauce.

[u/spreadlove5683]

how does this work w humanoids that need to balance and not fall over / need ultra low latency? and how is it fed input data / what's the format beside camera feeds?

[u/Novel-Injury3030]

what happens when china has millions of more humanoids than the west? tens of millions more? 

[u/samsteak]

Years of robotic ai research and you end up with a fn generalised model to utilize your hardware.

[u/Ormusn2o]

It makes no sense that the models are trained on datasets like that, which likely means those models actually might be showing up generalized intelligence (I'm not saying it's AGI), and it might explain why computer use on Astra just works on brand new programs that people made. It kind of looks like those models have learned to explore and reason about in the whatever environment they are in, without the need for it to be in the data set.

Chess moves are semi-famously removed from the datasets because of how badly they translate into real world performance, but I saw GothamChess pit some of the new models against each other, and I thought this era is over and now there is chess data in the models, but what if that is not true? What if the models are now just generalized enough to figure out chess in a way where they can just reason about the rules?

[u/KimLikeJ]

A factory pilot shows the model can do the task. It doesn't show what happens on the thousandth run, on a bad input, with no one watching. A CEO quote doesn't tell you anything about that.

What I'd want before believing "works very well" is the intervention rate per shift, what the robot is allowed to touch without a human approving, and what the log looks like when it gets something wrong. Has Unitree published any of that for these pilots, or is it all interview so far?

[u/redditissocoolyoyo]

To mass unemployment he means. Wtf are we doing this to ourselves?

[u/DukeRedWulf → u/redditissocoolyoyo]

We're not doing it to ourselves, it's being done to us..

[u/The_Scout1255]

Yay its over at this point, capitalism can't last through automation, here comes post-scarcity, jobless utopia!