en.Wedoany.com Reported - On the June 2 episode of *America's Got Talent*, 26-year-old Chinese dancer Wu Yufei from Sichuan took the stage with eight Unitree humanoid robots, delivering a synchronized dance performance that earned unanimous approval from all four judges, advancing him to the next round. According to NBC's program information, this season of *America's Got Talent* returned on June 2, featuring a humanoid robot dance performance produced by Chinese robotics company Unitree.
The highlight of this performance was not just "robots on stage," but the fully choreographed integration of eight robots with a human dancer in terms of stage rhythm, movement amplitude, positioning transitions, and group synchronization. Public footage shows Wu Yufei dancing alongside the robots to the music, with the robots executing formations, arm swings, fixed-point movements, and synchronized backflips, demonstrating strong mechanical stability and performance consistency. For traditional talent shows, this act combines street dance, robot control, motion algorithms, and stage entertainment, bringing humanoid robots from laboratory demonstrations to mainstream variety stages, and giving international audiences a direct view of China's progress in robot hardware motion control, structural stability, and batch coordination. Multiple public reports noted that Wu Yufei ultimately received unanimous approval from the judges to advance to the next round.
Behind this appearance lies an external showcase of China's humanoid robot industry moving from "being able to walk, run, and flip" to "being able to coordinate, perform, and enter real-world scenarios." While stage performances do not equate to commercial deployment, they impose high demands on robot balance control, rhythm response, formation stability, multi-unit consistency, and fault tolerance. Eight robots performing synchronized actions on the same stage indicates that underlying motion control, formation coordination, and action presets have achieved a strong level of engineering presentation. Particularly when humanoid robots perform backflips, fixed-point actions, and continuous dance moves, they must maintain a balance between motor control, center-of-gravity adjustment, posture recovery, and structural strength—this is also what creates a strong visual impact for the audience.
From a communication perspective, *America's Got Talent* is a globally renowned variety stage, featuring contestants including singers, dancers, magicians, acrobats, comedians, and special talent performers. Wu Yufei's entry with his robot team allowed Chinese humanoid robots to be seen by international audiences in a more popular and entertaining way for the first time. In the past, international dissemination of robot technology mostly occurred at exhibitions, lab videos, industry conferences, or corporate launches, primarily reaching engineers, investors, and tech industry professionals. This entry into an entertainment program transformed robot capabilities into a stage language understandable to ordinary viewers. It required no complex parameter explanations—audiences could form intuitive judgments simply by seeing whether the robots could keep up with the beat, maintain formation, and perform actions stably.
For Chinese robotics companies, this kind of overseas exposure also carries brand and supply chain significance. Unitree has gained global attention in recent years for its quadruped and humanoid robots, with its products showing strong recognition in motion control, cost control, and mass production capabilities. For humanoid robots to truly enter factories, warehousing, security, home services, and commercial service scenarios, challenges such as battery life, reliability, operational capability, safety boundaries, task generalization, and cost recovery still need to be addressed. However, from stage performances to public tours and pilot programs in specific industries, each time robots enter real human environments, it prompts a reassessment of their usability and acceptance. Wu Yufei's unanimous advancement this time highlights the showcase value of Chinese robot hardware and stage control capabilities, while also opening higher public awareness for subsequent commercial applications.
This performance also points to a new direction in the humanoid robot industry competition: robots are no longer just about the capabilities of a single unit, but about the ability for systematic expression. A single robot performing actions is no longer enough to create sustained impact; multi-unit coordination, formation performances, scene interaction, human-robot collaboration, and real-time control are becoming more compelling forms of display. In the future, similar technology could be further extended into cultural tourism performances, brand events, sports competitions, technology exhibitions, educational outreach, and robot competitions, creating new application scenarios of "robot hardware + choreography + live control + content dissemination." What truly determines industrial value will still be whether these stage capabilities can be further transferred into stable task execution in industrial, service, and public scenarios.
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