Humanoid robots may be a decade away from their “ChatGPT moment,” Unitree Robotics founder Wang Xingxing has said, following his company’s soaring market debut. Unitree debuted in Shanghai on Wednesday and soared to close 460% above its 150.80 yuan offer price, more than five times the price at which the company priced its $905 million initial public offering, amid huge interest in humanoid robotics as an emerging sector. But speaking Thursday at the World Robot Conference in Beijing, Wang said a true breakthrough for robotics — its “ChatGPT moment” — will be when a robot can be placed in an unfamiliar home and complete about 80% of tasks through text or voice commands alone. That could “arrive in two to three years if things move fast, or five to 10 years if they move slowly,” he said, according to CNBC’s translation of his speech in Mandarin.

Full report : Humanoid robots’ ‘ChatGPT moment’ could be 10 years away, Unitree founder says.