Leaked Footage of China's New AI Robot Has the World Alarmed

In May 2025 a clip got out of a test hall in China: a humanoid robot on a crane, every limb flailing, an engineer grabbing its stand. No statement from Unitree, which built it, explains what happened in that hall. This video follows that clip to where it leads. An American humanoid that hit at twenty times the threshold of pain in its maker's own impact test. A festival crowd, a robot that led twelve others out of a showroom, a woman in Macau and a boy at an amusement park in Urumqi. A share listing worth about fifty billion dollars on its first day, a robot that kicked the remote out of an engineer's hand and then bowed, and a letter to the Pentagon two days after the clip went up. Then the part almost nobody covered: what security researchers had been telling Unitree since December 2023, what one of its robots sends home every five minutes, and what the United States decided about these machines on the 28th of July 2026. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcMOgmkKMJ4U6pQSB6-TffQ?sub_confirmation=1 SOURCES Heise, Malfunction: Humanoid robot lashes out during tests, 7 May 2025: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Malfunction-Humanoid-robot-lashes-out-during-tests-10374403.html Robotics & Automation News, 8 May 2025: https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/05/08/ai-robot-attacks-worker-viral-video-shows-unitree-humanoid-going-berserk/90524/ Mike Kalil, Chinese robot goes berserk: https://mikekalil.com/blog/chinese-robot-goes-berserk/ Gruendel v. Figure AI, complaint, N.D. Cal. 5:25-cv-10094, 21 Nov 2025: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.460223/gov.uscourts.cand.460223.1.0.pdf Figure AI, counterclaims, 16 Jan 2026: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.460223/gov.uscourts.cand.460223.22.0.pdf Black Dot Research, fact-check of the festival video: https://blackdotresearch.sg/does-this-video-show-an-ai-humanoid-robot-attacking-and-headbutting-a-woman/ Oddity Central, humanoid robot at a Chinese festival: https://www.odditycentral.com/news/humanoid-robot-appears-to-attack-crowd-at-popular-chinese-festival.html Interesting Engineering, Erbai: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ai-robot-kidnaps-12-robots-in-shanghai Snopes on the Erbai video (via Yahoo): https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/meta-ai/articles/know-video-ai-robot-manipulating-140000667.html Macau Business, woman hospitalised after robot incident: https://macaubusiness.com/woman-hospitalised-in-macau-after-incident-involving-humanoid-robot/ Yahoo Tech, Macau: https://tech.yahoo.com/articles/first-humanoid-robot-arrested-frightening-144135993.html Kotaku, Urumqi: https://kotaku.com/robot-kicks-small-child-in-stomach-during-event-2000703013 Security Affairs, Unitree G1 flaws (Laflamme): https://securityaffairs.com/198085/hacking/hack-one-robot-reach-the-next-unitree-g1-security-flaws.html BusinessDay, Unitree's Shanghai debut: https://www.businessday.co.za/world/international-companies/2026-08-19-unitree-soars-fivefold-in-shanghai-debut-as-chinas-robot-sector-takes-centre-stage/ The Next Web, Unitree shares slump: https://thenextweb.com/news/unitree-shares-45-percent-slump-bubble-fears Newsweek, World Humanoid Robot Games 2026: https://www.newsweek.com/china-humanoid-robot-olympics-descends-into-fiery-chaos-12375680 Organiser, Shaoxing: https://organiser.org/2026/09/15/380918/international/humanoid-robot-attacks-its-own-engineer-in-china-unleashes-kung-fu-style-kicks-raising-fresh-ai-security-concerns/ House China Select Committee, letter on Unitree, 6 May 2025: https://chinaselectcommittee.house.gov/media/letters/letter-secretary-hegseth-secretary-lutnick-and-chairman-carr CVE-2025-2894 (CloudSail): https://takeonme.org/cves/cve-2025-2894 InsideAI's Max, Interesting Engineering: https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/robot-fires-at-youtuber-sparking-safety-fears House Homeland Security hearing, 17 Mar 2026: https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/deepseek-and-unitree-robotics-examining-the-national-security-risks-of-prc-artificial-intelligence-robotics-and-autonomous-technologies-and-building-a-secure-u-s-technology-base/ Taipei Times, American Security Robotics Act: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2026/03/28/2003854590 SESEC, China's humanoid standards system: https://sesec.eu/chinas-first-standards-system-for-humanoid-robots-and-embodied-intelligence/ Alias Robotics, arXiv 2509.14139: https://arxiv.org/html/2509.14139v2 IEEE Spectrum, the UniPwn exploit: https://spectrum.ieee.org/unitree-robot-exploit CVE-2025-35027 (UniPwn): https://takeonme.org/cves/cve-2025-35027 FCC, robots added to the Covered List, 30 Jul 2026: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-424001A1.txt