Unitree's founder says GPT-6 runs his robots very well and leaves the rest to GPT-7

Unitree's founder: GPT-6 works "very well" on robots, and the tipping point may be a year or two away

At the China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, Wang Xingxing said Unitree put GPT-6 on various robots across a range of tasks and "the results have actually been very good". In a fast scenario he sees embodied AI's tipping point in one or two years (two to three, he said in August), and thinks GPT-7 could solve the rest (Humanoids Daily). "The biggest mistake I've made over the past decade or so has been not believing in AI enough."

Read as the bitter lesson, with doubts about the missing numbers. r/singularity: "Bitter lesson strikes again." @fourweekmba: "No test data was published", and if he's right, "a robot maker's edge shifts from hardware to how well it integrates frontier models."

1. Tesla's Robotaxi now runs 6am to 11pm, with more cars

Tesla says waits are shorter thanks to more supply and better orchestration, and the trunk now opens itself at the end of a ride. Tesla also expanded its Dallas fleet, and Musk reposted the update as "Robotaxi improvements" (1.2M).

Riders want more of it. @p1ckst3r: "Had my first @robotaxi ride today in Dallas and it was quite the experience". @mindfullmoods24 can't get a ride because "demand has been so high", and asks for trip sharing so others can follow a blind passenger.

Heat: high · 2.2M views, 8 posts (1.2M on Musk's repost) · quiet on Reddit

2. Google DeepMind is building a new robotics lab near Cambridge

Aaron Saunders, Boston Dynamics' former CTO, who joined DeepMind in 2025, posted on LinkedIn: "We're building a new Google DeepMind robotics lab in the Cambridge area!" It's for the hardware team he has built since, still hiring machinists, engineers and researchers, with "more news to come in 2027".

None yet beyond the post.

Heat: low · no X traction yet

3. Nature Will's Natura-1 learns dexterous hands from a million hours of human video

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Its first foundation model, a 50B mixture-of-experts pretrained on one million hours of first-person human experience, then post-trained on a little robot data. It follows instructions zero-shot and runs long tasks, shown in a nearly 30-minute uncut video.

Launched overnight, so few takes yet. @hasantoxr: "Each of these has been shown before in isolation. Getting all three in one model is the real advance."

Heat: medium · 281K views, 22 posts (239K on the launch)

4. Cologne police seize a robot that groped a 16-year-old

Police believe it was remote-controlled when it touched the girl's bottom and made thrusting moves outside a fast-food restaurant, livestreamed by its 16-year-old owner and a 19-year-old (@IntCyberDigest). Officers found it hidden in a Volkswagen's boot and are investigating the pair for sexual insult (@ExxAlerts).

Mostly disgust, and few takes beyond the reports. @MarioNawfal: "That's supposed to be FUNNY?! What's going on with people?"

Heat: medium · 498K views, 13 posts (198K on one report)

Frontier models still can't label robot-training video

With Mecka, five frontier models captioned 200 first-person clips under human grading; the best, GPT-6 Astra, got 43.5% fully correct, against 79.5% acceptance for Mecka's own model, and 71.5% vs 94% on actions alone. It matters because human video is the cheapest robot data there is, and turning it into training labels still takes a specialist model (which Mecka sells).