A Chinese Robot Just Went Viral in Europe. It Was Chasing Boars.

A humanoid robot jogging across a Warsaw parking lot at night, helmet lights blinking, as a group of wild boars scatters out of its path — the clip lasted a few seconds and quickly went global. The machine, a Unitree G1 operating under the persona Edward Warchocki, posted the  footage to X  with the caption "I'm herding the wild boars into the forest." Reuters picked it up; the internet did the rest.

Behind the name is a  Unitree G1 — a compact humanoid platform standing 127 centimetres tall and weighing about 35 kilograms. The robot is equipped with 3D LiDAR, an Intel RealSense depth camera and a noise-cancelling microphone array, and can walk at up to two metres per second. It runs on UnifoLM, Unitree's proprietary large-scale robotics model, and uses reinforcement learning to refine movement. At launch in May 2024 the G1 was priced at approximately RMB 99,000 (about US$14,240) — positioning it as an entry-level humanoid aimed at research and commercial pilots.

The Edward Warchocki project was launched by Polish entrepreneur Radosław Grzelaczyk, with AI developer Bartosz Idzik building the system behind the robot's conversational capabilities. Rather than scripted responses, the robot is designed to generate adaptive replies during live interactions — a distinction its creators emphasise when pitching it to brands. Previous public appearances focused on handshakes, Q&A sessions and street encounters with curious passersby. The boar incident was unscripted.

The project has already attracted commercial interest. Its first paid collaboration promoted a luxury watch valued at around 80,000 złoty (roughly US$20,000), marking Edward's entry into influencer marketing. Proponents argue that humanoid influencers offer brands a level of message consistency that human creators cannot: they generate no personal controversies, require no rest days and remain precisely on-brand at all times.

Wild boars wandering into Warsaw neighbourhoods are not an unusual sight. Poland's capital, like several other Central European cities, has dealt for years with boars venturing into residential streets and car parks in search of food. The Polish government has run annual culling programmes since 2019, partly in response to the threat of African swine fever — a disease that poses a serious risk to the country's pork industry. Against that backdrop, human-boar encounters are a recognised urban issue; a humanoid robot joining the equation is rather newer.

Analysts and observers were quick to frame the video as more than a curiosity. Humanoid robots have been steadily leaving the laboratory: machines are already assisting travellers in airports, and multiple manufacturers — including Unitree's domestic rivals in China — are racing toward mass-market production of AI-integrated humanoid platforms for industrial use. The Warsaw footage, unplanned and unpolished, offered something that controlled demonstrations rarely provide: a robot navigating a genuinely unpredictable real-world situation.

Not everyone found the moment purely celebratory. Several commenters noted that startling wild boars carries real risk — while the animals rarely attack humans without provocation, a frightened boar can behave unpredictably. The debate that followed the clip touched on questions likely to recur as robots become more common in shared public spaces: who is responsible when an AI system triggers an unintended reaction in the environment around it?

For now, Edward Warchocki has returned to its usual schedule of public appearances and social media updates. The boars, according to the video, made it to the treeline.

Sources:

• Poland street sees humanoid robot chasing boars in unusual AI showcase 
•  Viral video shows humanoid robot chasing wild boars off street in bizarre encounter 
• Robot Chases Wild Boars Through Warsaw Streets in Viral Video 
• Edward Warchocki — Official Website — warchocki.pl
•  "zaganiam dziki do lasu" [original video post] — @edwardwarchocki on X, Apr. 12, 2026
•  Edward Warchocki: Poland's humanoid robot influencer — Robots Beat

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