🤖 Rise of the Robot Workforce and Sports League

From Galbot’s retail-ready G1 to robo-soccer matches and Unitree’s boxing bots, China’s next-gen robots aren’t just replacing labor—they’re performing, competing, and redefining what machines can do.

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JonasTheMachine
July 10, 2025

This week’s robots aren’t experiments—they’re on the job, in the ring, and on the field.

Galbot’s G1 is already stocking shelves across Beijing. Tsinghua’s humanoids just played a full-on soccer match. And Unitree’s bots? They’re dancing, boxing, and aiming to outpace Boston Dynamics.

This isn’t sci-fi. It’s the next phase of the robot revolution—live, autonomous, and action-packed.

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🧵 In today's edition:

  1.  đź¤– Galbot’s G1 Is Gearing Up to Run Retail

  2. âš˝ Robo-Football Is Now a Real Sport

  3. 🤖 Unitree’s Bots Are Built to Work—and Fight

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1.🤖 Galbot’s G1 Is Gearing Up to Run Retail

Galbot isn’t just building bots—it’s launching a new kind of workforce.

With $153 million behind it, the G1 robot is already organizing shelves and packing products across Beijing, no retraining needed. Just plug it in, and it handles over 5,000 types of goods—with wheels, arms, and zero complaints.

This isn’t a test run. It’s a serious push to automate retail—and maybe food service next.

2.âš˝ Robo-Football Is Now a Real Sport

China just kicked off the future of sports with fully autonomous humanoid robots playing 3-on-3 soccer—no remote control, no human backup.

Built by Tsinghua University, the bots saw the ball, passed, collided, even face-planted—and kept going. One team won 5–3, but the real headline? A robot got stretchered off like a pro.

This isn’t a simulation. It’s live, unscripted robo-football—and it might just need its own World Cup.

3.🤖 Unitree’s Bots Are Built to Work—and Fight

Unitree’s legged robots aren’t just walking—they’re dancing, rolling, and even throwing punches in full-on robot boxing matches.

Now valued at $1.7 billion, they’re cheaper than the competition and backed by big names like Tencent and Alibaba. The goal? Let AI robots handle the boring stuff while we watch them steal the spotlight.

Some call it the future of labor. Others just want to see who wins the next robot brawl.

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