Yangbot

《秧BOT》Common

A 2025 CCTV Spring Festival Gala segment in which Unitree H1 humanoid robots performed a traditional yangge dance.

Yangbot (《秧BOT》) was a segment on China Media Group's 2025 CCTV Spring Festival Gala — China's most-watched annual TV broadcast — in which Unitree Robotics' H1 humanoid robots performed the yangge, a traditional folk dance, spinning handkerchiefs alongside dancers from the Xinjiang Arts Institute. The segment was the first time humanoid robots appeared as a group on China's biggest television broadcast, and it's widely seen as the moment humanoid robots entered mainstream public awareness; public attention to Unitree, and to the humanoid-robot sector as a whole, rose sharply afterward. The dance moves were pre-choreographed, and the performance doesn't represent the robots having general autonomous ability.

Also called: Unitree H1 Yangge Dance (2025 CCTV Spring Festival Gala)
Related: Wubot · Unitree H1 · Unitree Robotics · Pre-Programmed (Choreographed) Motion · Commercial Robot Performances
Sources: Unitree Robotics - Wikipedia
As of: 2025-01