His robotics company IPO’d this week. He still thinks a humanoid breakthrough will take years.

Even one of robotics’ biggest names says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade.

During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing said that the industry’s breakthrough will come only when a robot can perform most tasks without being specifically trained for them.

“If one day a robot is brought into a completely unfamiliar environment, such as a home it has never seen before, and it can complete about 80% of the tasks just through voice or language commands, then I think we will have roughly reached the ‘ChatGPT moment’ for embodied intelligence,”…

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