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# Unitree open-sources UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 humanoid foundation model

Full title: Unitree open-sources UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 humanoid foundation model (Apache-2.0)

Three weeks after its IPO, Unitree announced UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 on 2026-09-10, a 6B humanoid foundation model that runs 64 tabletop and whole-body manipulation tasks on the G1 from one set of weights; reasoner weights, training code and the base model were released under Apache-2.0 between 2026-09-11 and 2026-09-28.

## 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.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 133 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 72 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): 163 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 102 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [GitHub: unitreerobotics/unifolm-wla](https://github.com/unitreerobotics/unifolm-wla) (github.com, code)
2. [UnifoLM-WLA project page](https://unigen-x.github.io/unifolm-wla.github.io/) (unigen-x.github.io, official)
3. [Hugging Face: UnifoLM-WLA-1.0-Base](https://huggingface.co/unitreerobotics/UnifoLM-WLA-1.0-Base) (huggingface.co, code)
4. [YouTube (Unitree): General-Purpose Humanoid Foundation Model upgrade, open source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHySQMMrIa4) (youtube.com, video)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-08-19: [Unitree Robotics IPO soars ~460% on Shanghai STAR Market debut](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-19-unitree-ipo-star-market/index.md)
- 2026-07-16: [Xiaomi open-sources Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a VLA trained on 100K+ hours of real trajectories](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-16-xiaomi-robotics-1/index.md)
- Models: [UnifoLM-WLA-1.0](https://postcutoff.com/m/unifolm-wla-1-0/) (`unifolm-wla-1-0`)
- Archived: 1 video, listed in https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-10-unitree-unifolm-wla-1-0/index.json