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The Humanoid Robot Kicks All of a Sudden: the Engineer Escapes to Avoid the Blow

Summary by La Stampa
A sudden kick a few centimeters from the engineer. During a test on September 7th in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China, a humanoid robot Unitree moves weight on a leg and suddenly kicks to the person who is testing it. The engineer, with a controller in his hand, quickly bends back and gets away avoiding being hit. The security images show the scene at close range, but they do not allow to determine what caused the movement. Unitree is among the leading…

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An engineer in China narrowly escaped serious injury during a test of a robot from technology company Unitree. The android, which appeared to have just begun a movement test, began performing a series of rotational kicks. Some of them grazed the technician’s face, who was standing directly in front of the robot. The engineer’s quick reaction prevented the worst. As soon as he noticed the robot’s sudden movement, he managed to move away in time a…

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A sudden kick a few centimeters from the engineer. During a test on September 7th in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China, a humanoid robot Unitree moves weight on a leg and suddenly kicks to the person who is testing it. The engineer, with a controller in his hand, quickly bends back and gets away avoiding being hit. The security images show the scene at close range, but they do not allow to determine what caused the movement. Unitree is among the leading…

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A Chinese engineer narrowly escaped serious injury when a robot he was testing suddenly started performing rotational kicks very close to his face. The incident occurred at a laboratory in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, where

A routine test went out of control at a factory in China: The robot knocked the phone out of the engineer's hand and then performed a spinning kick | At the end, it even managed to bow to the camera (interesting)

An avalanche of kicks and fists for this engineer who didn't see anything coming.

The video of the incident was then shared on social media and quickly went viral.

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La Stampa broke the news in Turin, Italy on Sunday, September 13, 2026.
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