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Unitree Founder Wang Xingxing Is China’s A.I. Rising Star Taking on Boston Dynamics

Unitree founder Wang Xingxing used China’s biggest TV stage to cement his rise as a global robotics force.

On the eve of the Lunar New Year earlier this month, millions of families across China tuned into the Spring Festival Gala, a long-running state-run variety show that this year delivered what once would have seemed like science fiction: Humanoid robots flipped and spun across the stage, performing synchronized martial arts routines with crisp precision. Four-legged robotic “dogs” trotted beside human dancers, moving so fluidly they seemed less like props and more like cast members. The machines were made by Hangzhou-based startup Unitree Robotics, founded and led by Wang Xingxing, a rising star on the global A.I. stage.

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