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 is cheaper, Digit or Unitree G1?

Unitree G1 has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Digit. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.

Is Digit or Unitree G1 more autonomous?

Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous on the DEPLOY registry than Unitree G1. DEPLOY counts a capability as autonomous only when verified at a real deployment, not from a demo or a vendor claim.

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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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 capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0).
Unitree G1 has the lower recorded price.
Digit has more verified real-world deployments (8 vs 2).
Digit is at the commercial stage; Unitree G1 at the research stage.

Attribute	Digit View full model page →	Unitree G1 View full model page →
Manufacturer	Agility Robotics	Unitree Robotics
Form factor	humanoid	humanoid
Maturity	commercial	research
Autonomy	✓ 1 verified autonomous	◐ not independently verified
Availability	internal-onlyenterprise	waitlistwaitlist
Price	$100,000-$250,000 (analyst estimate)	$13,500 (actual sale price)
Capability claims	Fetches items (autonomous, verified)	Picks and packs (demo-only, demonstrated-once)
Brain	GR00T N1 (Isaac GR00T) (foundation-model)	UnifoLM (world-model)
Verified deployments	8	2Japan Airlines, Japan Airlines
Privacy practices	—	—
Sources on file	41	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 is cheaper, Digit or Unitree G1?: Unitree G1 has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Digit. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.
Is Digit or Unitree G1 more autonomous?: Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous on the DEPLOY registry than Unitree G1. DEPLOY counts a capability as autonomous only when verified at a real deployment, not from a demo or a vendor claim.
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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