Unitree open-sources UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 humanoid foundation model
Confirmed
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
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- GPT-6 Astra133 days after its cutoff
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- Gemini 4 Hydrogen163 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7102 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 72 days before it.
Key facts
- 6B params: UnifoLM-ER 4B embodied reasoner (Qwen3-VL-4B based) + MMDiT action expert
- ~2,500 h real-robot data; 5M+ embodied reasoning samples
- 64 tasks; two-finger grippers and several five-finger dexterous hands
- Release: ER-1/ER-Flow weights 09-11, training code 09-20, WLA-1.0-Base + fine-tuning code 09-28
What happened
Unitree upgraded its UnifoLM series (UnifoLM-WMA-0 in 2025, UnifoLM-VLA-0 in early 2026) to a single unified model and moved from a non-commercial license to Apache-2.0.
Why it matters
The world’s highest-volume humanoid maker now ships an openly licensed foundation model for its own robots, lowering the barrier for G1 developers.
Sources
4 sources from 4 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
4 sources: 3 primary, 1 reaction
Primary
- GitHub: unitreerobotics/unifolm-wlagithub.com, code
- UnifoLM-WLA project pageunigen-x.github.io, official
- Hugging Face: UnifoLM-WLA-1.0-Basehuggingface.co, code
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