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Спикеры
Chris Johnson
— Co-Founder, Virtuals Protocol
Kelvin Sparks
— Ведущий и аналитик-исследователь, The Block
Virtuals Protocol co-founder Chris Johnson explains the protocol's move from AI-agent launchpad into physical AI and robotics. He details its Unitree partnership, Eastworld accelerator, and the first autonomous robot-to-robot commerce transaction settled onchain. He also discusses humanoid robotics acceleration and a near-term scenario of robots using Waymos for last-mile delivery.
- Virtuals opened a physical robotics lab and became the largest Unitree data contributor outside China.
- Eastworld is structured as an accelerator providing hardware to ecosystem teams.
- Virtuals executed the first autonomous robot-to-robot commerce transaction fully onchain.
- Chris sees autonomous, revenue-producing robots as driving rapid acceleration in physical AI.
- Unitree is going public imminently.
- Chris expects humanoid robots may soon use Waymo vehicles for last-mile delivery.
Идеи
Virtuals Protocol leads physical AI robotics.
Virtuals Protocol is moving beyond its AI-agent launchpad into physical AI and robotics: it opened a physical robotics lab, partnered with Unitree, became the largest Unitree data contributor outside China, runs an accelerator called Eastworld, and completed the first autonomous robot-to-robot commerce transaction settled onchain. This positions Virtuals at the frontier of agents and robots becoming revenue-producing economic actors.
Watch Unitree IPO amid humanoid inflection.
Unitree is going public imminently while humanoid robotics is inflecting, and Virtuals is the largest Unitree data contributor outside China, making Unitree a key named way to monitor the physical AI and humanoid robotics rollout.
Humanoid robotics accelerating toward autonomous economic work.
Humanoid robotics is shifting from teleoperated demonstrations to autonomous, revenue-producing tasks, and once robots can do economically useful work autonomously the space will accelerate very quickly.
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This The Block video, published August 23, 2026, features Chris Johnson discussing VIRTUAL, 688836.SS, Humanoid robotics. 3 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.
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