UniX AI ships humanoid to homes

UniX AI said on April 11 that its Panther robot has completed work inside an unmodified home, a step the company says moves its humanoid from demos to household use. (finance.yahoo.com) The company said Panther handled a string of domestic tasks in one residence, including waking a user, making a bed, preparing breakfast, cleaning rooms, and organizing objects. UniX AI described the test as “continuous multi-task validation” without staging or scripting. (finance.yahoo.com) Panther is UniX AI’s third-generation household robot, unveiled on April 8, and the company said it has started global deliveries. The machine uses wheels and two arms instead of walking legs, a design UniX AI says is aimed at indoor stability and faster deployment. (prnewswire.com) A home is a hard place for a robot because floors, furniture, pets, and people keep changing the path and the task list. UniX AI said that is why most humanoid systems still operate in labs, warehouses, or other structured settings rather than ordinary apartments and houses. (finance.yahoo.com) Panther’s hardware is built around that tradeoff. UniX AI says the robot has 34 joints, an 80-centimeter upper-body lift, four-wheel steering and drive, dual arms with 12-kilogram payload capacity each, and battery life of 6 to 12 hours. (unix-group.ai) The company says the robot is 1.6 to 1.75 meters tall and can pass through openings as narrow as 65 to 75 centimeters. It also lists onboard computing of up to 2,070 tera operations per second, plus cameras, lidar, ultrasonic sensors, microphones, and speakers for navigation and interaction. (unix-group.ai) UniX AI is pushing a different approach from the legged humanoids popularized by companies such as Tesla and Figure. Its bet is that a wheeled base can do more useful work indoors now, even if it looks less like a person. (prnewswire.com) The company’s public evidence so far comes from its own announcements and videos, not from an independent audit, outside benchmark, or disclosed customer case study. UniX AI founder Fred Yang presented Panther’s household testing and commercialization plan at the Morgan Stanley China Summit 2026, according to the company’s April 11 statement. (markets.businessinsider.com) UniX AI’s claim now sets up the next test: whether Panther can keep doing routine work in more homes, for longer stretches, with fewer human interventions than a polished launch video shows. (finance.yahoo.com)