Chinese robotics firm Unitree has unveiled a humanoid robot aimed at security, patrol and rescue work, releasing promotional footage that shows the machine disarming a knife-wielding intruder and lifting a car.
The H2-X — which the company has dubbed “Kung Fu Legend: Guardian” — was presented in a video released on Wednesday. Hiru News reported that the robot is built specifically for security, rescue and patrol operations, and combines agility with physical strength.
The footage shows the H2-X disarming an intruder, smashing a car door, raising the front of a vehicle to free a trapped dummy and pulling a pedestrian away from an oncoming car, according to the South China Morning Post. Earlier Unitree demonstrations have featured backflips, aerial kicks and martial-arts routines.
The H2-X is built on the company’s H2 platform, a full-size humanoid standing 1.8 metres tall and weighing about 70kg. The earlier model’s product description lists 31 degrees of freedom and a maximum leg-joint torque of 360 newton metres, though Unitree has not confirmed whether the H2-X retains those specifications.
The eight-hour figure needs reading carefully
Hiru reported that the robot can operate for close to eight hours at a stretch on tasks such as security and patrol work. The SCMP account is narrower: Unitree said the machine could run for about eight hours while standing — a far lower-power state than patrolling or physically intervening. Nothing published so far establishes endurance under active use.
What Unitree has not said
The company has not disclosed a release date, a price or detailed technical specifications. It has not clarified whether the actions shown in the video were performed autonomously or choreographed, nor whether the robot can identify threats and respond safely in unscripted environments. A company representative contacted on Wednesday declined to add detail, saying “everything is subject to the official announcement video.”
The video closes with a warning against dangerous modifications and unauthorised uses, advising a safety buffer of at least two to three metres.
Unitree rose to prominence on viral stunt videos, which helped it raise substantial capital. China’s robotics industry is now under growing pressure from investors to show commercial returns. Last month the company said its UnifoLM-X2-1.0 artificial-intelligence model allowed humanoid robots to spar autonomously by punching, blocking and dodging.
Not reported
None of the international newsrooms on our verified list had filed on the unveiling at the time of writing, so this report rests on Hiru’s Sinhala filing and the SCMP account. Nothing indicates whether the H2-X will be sold outside China, and no Sri Lankan agency has commented on humanoid security robots.
