Buying guide
Digit vs Unitree R1 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
On DEPLOY's record, Digit has more verified real-world deployments (11 versus 1) than Unitree R1 as of 2026; DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
- Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0).
- Unitree R1 has the lower recorded price.
- Digit has more verified real-world deployments (11 vs 1).
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| Manufacturer | Agility Robotics | Unitree Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | commercial | commercial |
| Autonomy | ✓ 1 verified autonomous | ◐ not independently verified |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | preorder-openpreorder |
| Price | $100,000-$250,000 (analyst estimate) | $4,900-$10,500 (actual sale price) |
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| Verified deployments | 11 | 1Unitree Robotics |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 45 | 9 |
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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 R1
The R1 is Unitree's price-floor entry into the same research-and-developer category as the G1, lowering the cost barrier to humanoid hardware for hobbyists, education, and capability researchers. The three R1 configurations differ in capability rather than presenting a buyer-tier ladder; the EDU variant adds the research-platform extensions a lab would want.
Unitree describes R1 as developer-tool hardware, with the published specs as the verifiable substance and no commercial deployment record on file. The verified-vs-claimed lens applies differently to a developer platform: hardware credibility is the relevant claim, commercial deployment is not yet in scope.
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Recent coverage
- Apple Cuts Jobs in Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming TeamsDigit · Bloomberg Technology · 2026-08-21
- Dino Polska Reports Double-Digit Revenue Growth In First HalfDigit · ESM Magazine · 2026-08-21
- Chinese robot maker Unitree wins approval for 619 million Shanghai IPOUnitree R1 · Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-07-02
- Unitree R1 Offers Humanoid Movement at a Price That Finally Opens the Door for Real-World Buyers - TechEBlog -Unitree R1 · Google News · 2026-06-29
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