Provenance Record

Well structured (Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know / Analysis). Neutral tone, appropriate skepticism toward marketing-style demos. Length appropriate for News (768 words).

{"source-0":{"url":"https://www.wired.com/story/unitree-gd01-mecha-robot/","snapshot":"source-0.html.gz","status":"WIRED. Verifies: $650,000 price, 'Friendly and Safe' quote, 'crabwalk position', pilot 'lying on their back', Xingxing Wang CEO + Hangzhou base, 'product it is selling, not an elaborate prank' direct verification. Does NOT contain 'mechanical horse' or 'dangerous modifications / hazardous manner' quotes — those are in The Verge."},"source-1":{"url":"https://www.theverge.com/tech/929487/unitree-gd01-giant-mech-suit-robot","snapshot":"source-1.html.gz","status":"The Verge. Verifies: $650,000 price, 'It can transform. It's a civilian vehicle. It weighs ~500kg with you inside' quote verbatim, 'mechanical horse' phrasing, 'dangerous modifications' + 'hazardous manner' quotes, Wang Xingxing in cockpit, bipedal↔quadrupedal switching, 'isn't a prank (Wired confirmed with Unitree)'."},"source-2":{"url":"https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/video-unitree-launches-the-worlds-first-production-ready-manned-mecha-robot","snapshot":"source-2.html.gz","status":"Interesting Engineering (citing 36Kr, Omdia, SCMP). Verifies: 1.6× height of average adult, 500 kg / 1102 lb with pilot, high-strength alloy, stack-of-bricks demo, leg-folding + chassis transformation, 5,500 humanoid robots shipped by Unitree in 2025, ~90% Chinese global humanoid share, Tesla/Figure AI/Agility Robotics shipping ~150 units each, STAR Market IPO in March (article writes 'March 2026' which is inferred but consistent with the May 2026 article date). Also contains $650,000 in title and 3.9M yuan (US$573,674) as the official starting price."}}

Substantively accurate — every quantitative claim (1.6x height, 500 kg / 1,102 lb, $650,000 price, 5,500 humanoid robots shipped 2025, ~90% Chinese share of humanoid sales) and every quoted material is verifiable in at least one cited snapshot. CEO name (Xingxing Wang / Wang Xingxing — same person, different name-order conventions across sources), Hangzhou base, STAR Market IPO filing, Omdia + SCMP attribution, comparator company list (Tesla, Figure AI, Agility Robotics) all verified. Two compound source-attribution errors: the 'mechanical horse' framing and the safety-disclaimer quotes ('dangerous modifications', 'hazardous manner') are attributed to WIRED in the article but appear only in The Verge. File a corrections record and merge.