Unitree unveils H2-X 'Kung Fu' guardian robot in stunt-filled video
The Chinese robot maker's one-minute clip shows the humanoid smashing cars and fending off an intruder, but no price, release date or full specs have been given.
Watch Unitree's video:
Unitree Introducing: H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian🤖 Powerful performance to serve and guard you, with a maximum endurance of approximately 8 hours. Please use the robot safely and in a friendly manner.
— Unitree (@UnitreeRobotics) October 21, 2026
Chinese robot maker Unitree Robotics has introduced the H2-X, a humanoid it calls the "Kung Fu Legend Guardian", in a 61-second promotional video posted on X and YouTube on Wednesday. The company says the robot offers "powerful performance to serve and guard you" and a maximum endurance of about eight hours, and asks owners to use it "safely and in a friendly manner".
The clip opens in a scrapyard at night, where the robot jumps onto a car roof, flips back down and kicks and punches the bodywork, shattering glass. It then leaps from a platform labelled as four metres high and performs flying kicks and backflips in a shower of sparks. A caption says the footage is real throughout and has not been sped up.
The second half turns to the "guardian" theme. In staged scenes, the H2-X steps in to protect a woman from a hooded intruder armed with a knife, lifts the front of a car so a trapped dummy can be pulled out, and pushes a child-sized mannequin out of the path of a car before being run over itself. On-screen notes say the rescue scenes use props.
Unitree has not said whether the robot acted on its own, was remote-controlled or followed a choreographed routine, the South China Morning Post reported. The eight-hour figure shown in the video refers to standing time, not continuous activity, and no price, full specifications or release date have been announced. The video ends with a safety notice asking users not to modify the robot or use it in a hazardous way, and to keep people at least two to three metres away from it.
The H2-X belongs to Unitree's H2 line. The standard H2, listed on the company's website at $29,900 before tax and shipping, is about 1.8 metres tall, weighs around 70 kg, has 31 joints and runs for about three hours on one battery.
The Hangzhou-based company became famous for viral videos of its robots dancing, fighting and doing somersaults, and listed its shares in Shanghai in August. The SCMP notes that China's robotics industry is now under growing pressure to turn such demonstrations into products that make money.