Wubot

《武BOT》Advanced

A 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala segment featuring a Unitree humanoid robot martial-arts performance.

Wubot (《武BOT》) was a robot martial-arts segment on China Media Group's 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Humanoid robots from Unitree Robotics took part in the performance, reportedly appearing alongside martial-arts performers to complete fist forms, weapons routines, and other movements. It was Unitree's second appearance on the Spring Festival Gala, following the 2025 segment Yangbot, in which Unitree's H1 performed the yangge folk dance. As with that earlier segment, the movements here were pre-choreographed, trained into a motion-tracking policy using motion-capture data and then executed on the robot; the performance showcases whole-body motor control and balance, and doesn't mean the robot can autonomously understand or respond to arbitrary situations. It has also become another important window through which the Chinese public has come to know humanoid robots.

Also called: Unitree Kung Fu Performance (2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala)
Related: Yangbot · Unitree Robotics · Pre-Programmed (Choreographed) Motion · Motion Tracking · Whole-Body Control · Commercial Robot Performances
Sources: 宇树科技官网 (Chinese)
As of: 2026-02