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Unitree’s G1 robot now handles chores and hospital beds
Unitree showed its G1 humanoid doing household tasks after a UnifoLM-OminiA-0.3 update, though the demo was filmed in a test environment.
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Unitree has posted a new video showing its G1 humanoid taking on everyday chores after an update to UnifoLM-OminiA-0.3. According to the company, the robot not only recognized nearby objects but also planned its own path to reach the right items and carry out spoken requests.
In the video, G1 picks pillows up from the floor and places them on a sofa, gathers clothes into a laundry basket, and loads plates into a dishwasher. At the end, it also adjusts the height of a hospital bed at a person’s request.
For Unitree, that marks a move toward home-use scenarios, which remain one of the hardest tests for humanoid robots. Tesla with Optimus, Figure AI, and Boston Dynamics are chasing the same goal, but these robots still are not on the market.
The obstacle is not just hardware. Reliable object recognition, precise motion planning, and safe operation around people are still major technical hurdles.
Unitree also stressed that the footage was shot in a test environment, and that not all production G1 robots can do the same things. To repeat these actions consistently, the robot still needs software tuning and training for specific tasks.
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