Unitree Robotics founder and CEO Wang Xingxing said humanoid robots could still be years from a defining "ChatGPT moment," estimating two to three years at the fastest and five to 10 years at the slowest. Speaking Thursday at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, he said the milestone would come when a robot can enter an unfamiliar environment or home and complete about 80% of tasks from voice or text alone. The outlook is more cautious than his forecast a year earlier of a breakthrough within five years at the latest. Unitree listed on Shanghai’s STAR Market this week, raising $900 million at a $9 billion valuation before the stock surged as much as 460% and the company’s market value reached about $66 billion, above Figure AI’s last private valuation of $39 billion. Shares then fell about 19% on Thursday and another 2% on Friday. Wang said Unitree’s robots remain less efficient than human workers, still need retraining for new tasks, and can lose precision in the final centimeters or millimeters, even as the firm builds a self-evolving AI loop to refine control code.