Unitree Robotics is developing a "self-evolving physical AI" system that could allow robots to accelerate their own development, its founder and chairman Wang Xingxing said on Thursday.
Wang's comments came a day after Unitree, one of China's best-known humanoid robot makers, made its debut on Shanghai's STAR Market, drawing fresh investor attention to the commercial prospects of embodied AI.
Speaking at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Wang said the company was working on what it calls a "self-evolving physical AI robot" system designed to automate much of the robot development cycle.
Under the approach, advanced AI models could search research papers, write robot-control code, test it in simulated environments and then deploy it on physical machines. AI systems and human engineers would subsequently evaluate the results and feed the assessments back into the system, creating a closed-loop development process.
"Dramatically improving robot-development efficiency, and even enabling robots to evolve themselves, is something very worthwhile to pursue," Wang said.
