Buying guide
Digit vs Unitree G1 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Digit has more verified real-world deployments (8 vs 2).
- Digit is at the commercial stage; Unitree G1 at the research stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Agility Robotics | Unitree Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | commercial | research |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | waitlistwaitlist |
| Price | Not announced | $13,500 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
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| Verified deployments | 8 | 2Japan Airlines, Japan Airlines |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 38 | 17 |
Editorial summaries
Digit
Digit is the cohort's commercial verification anchor: the most-verified-hours humanoid in the registry, with Agility's GXO Flowery Branch deployment doing the load-bearing work. The maker-facility rule applies in reverse here. GXO operates Digit on customer-paid freight inside GXO's own warehouses, which is the commercial-deployment shape that internal-facility pilots from Tesla, 1X, and others do not yet have. Agility describes Digit's operational envelope as autonomous mobile manipulation in structured logistics; the verification anchor is what operators document at the customer site, not Agility's spec sheet.
Unitree G1
The Unitree G1 is a research and developer humanoid platform at a sub-enterprise price point, sold into university labs, hardware-research groups, and individual developers rather than enterprise integration contracts. The category distinction matters: a G1 at a research bench is in its intended environment; treating G1 in active research use as commercial deployment overstates Unitree's commercial position relative to Apollo, Digit, or Atlas. Unitree describes G1's autonomy as developer-platform capability for capability research, with the published specs (degrees of freedom, payload, runtime) as the verifiable substance; commercial deployment hours at named customer sites are not yet part of G1's record.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Digit and Unitree G1?
- Digit and Unitree G1 are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
- Which has more verified deployments, Digit or Unitree G1?
- Digit has more verified deployments (8) on the DEPLOY registry than Unitree G1 (2). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
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