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While Figure and 1X chase bipedal walking, UniX AI shipped a humanoid that just rolls. Panther, the Suzhou startup’s third-gen service robot, went into global delivery on April 8 — the one humanoid story robotics Twitter hasn’t shut up about this week.

The hardware

160cm tall, 80kg, four-wheel steering plus four-wheel drive chassis. Two 8-DoF bionic arms — UniX claims the first mass-produced ones — with 12kg payload each and adaptive grippers. The torso lifts 80cm vertically, so it reaches the floor without crouching. 34 DoF in total, 2070 TOPS of onboard edge compute, RGBD cameras, a 6-mic circular array, IMU, gyro, force-torque and ultrasonic sensors. Battery runs 8 to 16 hours on a new 48V power platform.

Why people are talking

UniX says Panther ran end-to-end tasks in real, unmodified homes: waking the user, making the bed, cooking breakfast, cleaning rooms, putting things away. No taped-off lab, no choreographed demo. That claim got picked up by PR Newswire, Globenewswire, RoboticsTomorrow and Humanoids Daily in the same week. Whether wheels are a shortcut or the actual answer for home robotics is now an open question — and UniX is the first Chinese name after Figure and 1X being taken seriously on it.

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