{"id":28330,"date":"2026-02-25T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/?p=28330"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:33:36","slug":"a-chinese-humanoid-robot-has-just-made-history-at-47-4-c-taking-more-than-130000-steps-on-the-ice-in-xinjiang-and-even-drawing-an-olympic-emblem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/a-chinese-humanoid-robot-has-just-made-history-at-47-4-c-taking-more-than-130000-steps-on-the-ice-in-xinjiang-and-even-drawing-an-olympic-emblem\/28330\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese humanoid robot has just made history at -47.4 \u00b0C, taking more than 130,000 steps on the ice in Xinjiang and even \u201cdrawing\u201d an Olympic emblem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In northern China, a humanoid robot just did something that would stop most phones and electric cars cold. The Unitree G1<\/a> walked more than 130,000 steps on a frozen snowfield in the Altay region of Xinjiang while temperatures dropped to minus 47.4 degrees Celsius, tracing a Winter Olympics emblem on the ice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That long walk makes the G1 the first humanoid robot reported to complete autonomous<\/a> walking in such extreme cold. After all, what good is a humanoid helper if it shuts down whenever the weather turns brutal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long walk in deep cold<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During the trial, the G1 followed a pre-planned path across the snow, drawing a Winter Olympics emblem about 186 meters long and 100 meters wide. All the while, it took more than 130,000 steps without direct human control, adjusting its balance on ice and uneven snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Altay is often promoted as a birthplace of skiing, and winter temperatures there regularly sink far below what most commercial machines are built to handle. In practical terms, that means testing robots<\/a> in cold that can make phone screens sluggish and car batteries weak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tech behind a robot winter test<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To survive the cold, engineers from Unitree Robotics tweaked the robot’s hardware in simple but important ways. They wrapped its torso in a bright orange winter jacket and put plastic sleeves around its legs and feet, extra layers meant to shield motors, joints, and battery packs from ice and wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inside, the robot relied on China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System for centimeter level positioning, while its adaptive path planning software helped it pick each step across the frozen terrain. Sensors including 3D lidar and depth cameras fed constant data about the surroundings to keep the robot upright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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