The 2026 World Robot Congress Forum took place in Beijing from August 19 to 22. Wang Xingxing, founder of Unitree Robotics, emphasized that the primary hurdle to the broad deployment of general-purpose robots is the limited generalization capacity of embodied AI. Presently, while most AI models excel with remarkable success rates in predefined scenarios, their performance plummets when faced with changes in the environment or objects. Wang projected that the sector is likely to achieve significant milestones within either 2–3 years or, more cautiously, 5–10 years. Once robots can independently accomplish roughly 80% of daily tasks in unfamiliar domestic settings through voice commands alone, the general-purpose robotics industry is poised for explosive expansion.