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Unitree G1

By Unitree Robotics · humanoid

Price
$13,500· actual sale price
Availability
Waitlist.
Maturity
research
Real-world use
Yes, 2 verified deployments

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.

Readiness

Unitree G1 is waitlist at $13,500 (actual sale price), the 1 capability claim on file is all demo-only with demonstrated once, 2 verified deployments are on file, and 3 incidents are on record.

Availability
waitlist

Waitlist.

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Price honesty
actual-sale-price

2 prices on file: $13,500 (actual sale price), $13,500 (actual sale price).

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Capability honesty
demo-only

1 reviewed claim: demo-only, demonstrated once.

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Real-world use
research

Maturity: research. 2 verified deployments in the registry.

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Safety record
incidents-on-file

3 incidents on record across 2 verified deployments.

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What it claims to do

Price

Real-world use

Safety record

Privacy

No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Unitree G1.

Specs

dof
23-43
mass_kg
35
dof_range
23-43
height_cm
130
weight_kg
35
drive_mode
bipedal
payload_kg
3
runtime_hours
2
battery_life_hours
2

What's under the hood

Frequently asked questions

Is the Unitree G1 actually available for purchase?
Waitlist only. No shipping yet.Source: Unitree plans Shanghai STAR Market IPO (Mar 20, 2026)
What does the Unitree G1 cost?
Unitree G1 has 2 prices on file: $13,500 one-time (actual sale price) and $13,500 one-time (actual sale price).Source: Unitree official store (G1 product page)
Does the Unitree G1 really picks and packs?
Demonstrated in a demo; no real-world verification.Source: Unitree G1 -- Unitree Robotics official product page; research-grade humanoid robot with 23-degree-of-freedom dexterous arms; designed for embodied AI research, manipulation, and locomotion tasks; public manipulation demos show object picking, stacking, tool use
Where is the Unitree G1 being used?
Unitree G1 is in use at: Tokyo Haneda Airport operated by Japan Airlines (2026-05-07) and Tokyo operated by Japan Airlines (2026-05-01).Source: Humanoid robot begins work at Japanese airport to tackle labor crisis
What's the Unitree G1 running on?
Unitree G1 runs on UnifoLM (world-model, research maturity).
Is the Unitree G1 safe?
Incidents on record: 3 (3 injury). See Unitree G1 humanoid robot roundhouse-kicked a child in the stomach during a martial arts demo at Urumqi Botanical Garden.Source: Unitree G1 humanoid robot roundhouse-kicked a child in the stomach during a martial arts demo at Urumqi Botanical Garden
How does the Unitree G1 handle privacy?
No privacy practices disclosed or on file for Unitree G1.
Who makes the Unitree G1?
Unitree G1 is made by Unitree Robotics, based in Hangzhou, China.Source: Unitree plans Shanghai STAR Market IPO (Mar 20, 2026)

Video

PRIMARY SOURCE
Courtesy of Unitree

Unitree's 'Kungfu Kid' martial-arts routine performed by its G1 humanoid. The motion is choreographed and reinforcement-learning-trained, not autonomous combat; Unitree's 'autonomous' framing is contested.

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Courtesy of Unitree

Unitree's Embodied Avatar full-body teleoperation platform for the G1: a human operator drives the robot's full-body motion and captures training data. Explicitly a teleoperation system, useful context for reading Unitree's other G1 demos, where much of the motion is human-driven rather than autonomous.

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Courtesy of Unitree

Unitree's product reel for the mass-production version of its G1 humanoid. A marketing reel emphasizing an appearance and performance upgrade; the capability framing is the maker's, not benchmarked.

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Courtesy of Unitree

Unitree's launch reveal of the G1 humanoid robot. Unitree markets G1 as an 'AI avatar'; the agile demo footage is curated and partly teleoperated, not verified autonomous capability.

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Courtesy of Unitree Robotics

Unitree's official demonstration of the G1 performing a pre-programmed standing side flip. Tagged demo-only: a curated capability demo, not a real-world consumer-need use.

Manufacturer

Unitree Robotics (registry record: /companies/unitree-robotics)

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Sources

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  3. Unitree G1 humanoid (canonical specs: 1320 mm, ~35 kg, 23-43 DOF, Dex3-1 hand) · https://www.unitree.com/g1/
  4. Unitree demos new $16k robot (ICRA 2024 reveal/interview) · https://spectrum.ieee.org/unitree-g1
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  6. Unitree G1 ready to leap into mass production (agility demos) · https://newatlas.com/robotics/unitree-g1-humanoid-robot-mass-production/
  7. Unitree gears up for mass production of G1 · https://www.designboom.com/technology/unitree-mass-production-g1-humanoid-robot-08-27-2024/
  8. Unitree humanoid demonstrates kung-fu moves and backflips (KungFu Kid demo) · https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-humanoid-performs-impressive-kungfu
  9. Unitree plans Shanghai STAR Market IPO (Mar 20, 2026) · https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/unitree-plans-shanghai-ipo-testing-interest-in-humanoid-robots.html
  10. Unitree files for about $610M Shanghai IPO (2026) · https://restofworld.org/2026/unitree-china-humanoid-robot-shanghai-ipo/
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  15. Unitree eyes 20,000-robot output in 2026 after the Gala (2026) · https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3343825/kung-fu-somersaults-and-scale-unitree-eyes-20000-robot-output-2026-after-gala
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  17. Unitree GD01 mecha humanoid unveiled amid IPO (2026) · https://thenextweb.com/news/unitree-gd01-mecha-humanoid-robot-ipo
  18. Unitree H1 sets 10 m/s global speed record (2026) · https://thestandard.com.hk/innovation/article/329103/Unitree-H1-sets-10ms-global-speed-record
  19. Unitree official YouTube (@unitreerobotics), embedded under standard YouTube embed terms. oEmbed author_url verified 2026-06-04. Maker demo, not autonomous capability. · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzX1qOIO1bE · 2026-06-04
  20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29xLWhqME2Q · 2025-03-18
  21. Unitree official store (G1 product page) · https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitree-g1 · 2026-07-05
  22. Humanoid robot begins work at Japanese airport to tackle labor crisis · https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/japan-humanoid-robots-haneda-airport · 2026-05-07
  23. Japan Airlines Launches Two-Year Humanoid Robot Trial at Haneda Airport · https://mlq.ai/news/japan-airlines-launches-two-year-humanoid-robot-trial-at-haneda-airport/ · 2026-05-07
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