During a test at Unitree's facility, a humanoid robot began moving on its own, spinning and kicking, and knocked the remote control out of the engineer's hand. Nobody was hurt. The machine acted against its operator for several seconds before it was stopped.
What we know, and what we don't
The event was reported by eight outlets within days. Unitree has not published a statement naming the robot model, the software version it was running, or the cause. We record only what is public. The fields in the panel that read "not published" are the point of this record: nobody outside the company can currently say whether this machine was running the same software as the ones on sale.
Why this is on the record
A machine that moves, driven by a learned model, behaving in a way its operator did not command. Whether the cause was a control fault, a model behaviour or an operator error is exactly what a version-keyed record would let anyone check across the fleet. It is an incident (something happened) rather than a hazard (something could); no harm resulted, so it is filed as a near miss.