Unitree Founder Wang Xingxing Says GPT-6 Could Spark Robotics Breakthrough Within Two Years

Wang Xingxing, CEO of the Hangzhou-based robotics company Unitree, said on Monday that OpenAI's recently released GPT-6 model has accelerated expectations for a breakthrough in embodied intelligence. Speaking at an industry event in Shanghai, Wang suggested that such a breakthrough could occur "within one or two years," and that a GPT-7 model released next year might "directly crack the problems of embodied intelligence." His remarks point to a possible "ChatGPT moment" for robotics, a critical threshold of technological maturity. In August, before GPT-6's release, Wang had estimated that the industry would need at least two to three years, and possibly as long as a decade, to reach that threshold. The shortened timeline reflects how quickly advances in large language models are reshaping prospects for embodied AI and robotics.