Buying guide
Ameca vs Unitree G1 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Unitree G1 has the lower recorded price.
- Ameca is at the commercial stage; Unitree G1 at the research stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Engineered Arts | Unitree Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | commercial | research |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | shipping-nowshipping | waitlistwaitlist |
| Price | $250,000 (actual sale price) | $13,500 (actual sale price) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain | — |
|
| Verified deployments | 2Computer History Museum, Museum of the Future | 2Japan Airlines, Japan Airlines |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 11 | 17 |
Editorial summaries
Ameca
Ameca, from UK-based Engineered Arts, is the famous expressive humanoid: 61 actuated movements (27 DoF head/face plus 34 DoF upper body), 50+ facial expressions, and conversational AI via the Tritium software with LLM and speech integration (Generation 3 shown at ICRA 2025). It is a stationary communication and showpiece robot, not a mobile general-purpose worker. It is commercially offered for purchase and rental at about $250,000. The expressiveness and conversation are real; what it is not is a walking, working humanoid.
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 Ameca and Unitree G1?
- Ameca 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 is cheaper, Ameca or Unitree G1?
- Unitree G1 has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Ameca. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.
- Which has more verified deployments, Ameca or Unitree G1?
- Ameca and Unitree G1 each have 2 verified deployments on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).
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