China held a massive robotics demonstration at the country's biggest TV event of the year. Spring Festival Gala gathered 79% of the country's TV viewers (like the Super Bowl, only bigger), to show how Unitree G1 and H2 do backflips, wall flips, and spins at 4 m/s.
This was the first fully autonomous group performance of humanoids doing martial arts. They were joined by robots from Noetix (in a comedy skit) and MagicLab, dancing to "We Are Made in China."
China leads this market:
According to Omdia, China produced 90% of the 13,000 humanoid robots shipped worldwide in 2025. Morgan Stanley forecasts sales growth in China to 28,000+ units in 2026 — doubling the market in one year.
All major Chinese AI companies launched releases during the holidays (Chinese New Year):
- Alibaba Cloud launched Qwen 3.5 (397B parameters) with a focus on agency and complex tasks. You can try it from anywhere without a VPN on the official site.
- ByteDance introduced the Doubao 2.0 chatbot and Seedance 2.0 video model with native audio sync.
Elon Musk said in January: "People underestimate China, but it's a next level ass-kicker." And where is he wrong? Industry leaders AgiBot and Unitree are already preparing for IPOs this year. Progress compared to 2025 is simply insane.
Watch the robot performance (YouTube): Unitree Kung Fu Performance 2026