This post isn't about the typical tech showcase seen at a robotics expo; instead, it focuses on the *America's Got Talent* finale in September 2026, where Chinese dancer Yufei Wu featured Unitree humanoids in a performance blending traditional movements, dance, and human-machine coordination. The group had already garnered attention in earlier rounds of the show with acrobatics, leaps, and martial arts-inspired moves.

There is a crucial detail behind all that synchrony: to teach the choreography to the robots, engineers captured human movements, processed the data in simulations, and fine-tuned the sequences until the machines could replicate them. Once prepared, multiple humanoids can execute the same movements in unison; however, this does not mean they are improvising or making every decision on their own.

The performance relies on carefully planned choreography, and that is precisely where the next challenge arises. It is one thing to have eight robots dance on stage where every movement has been pre-planned, but it is something else entirely to have a humanoid operate in an environment where no one is following a script—yet that is exactly what many Chinese tech companies are attempting to achieve.