Unitree Introducing | Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent | AI Avatar | Price from $16K

Unitree Robotics · 2.2M views · 2024-05-13 · 1:44

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Overview

A short Unitree promo for its G1 humanoid robot, priced from $16K, showing agile motion, dexterous hands and imitation and reinforcement learning.

On Hacker News

HN cites it as evidence that cheap, capable humanoid robots from Chinese companies are arriving, often in contrast to Tesla's Optimus.

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Robotics Machine learning & deep learning

What people said

SequoiaHope · 2026-05 · Reference
Have you seen the mass produced humanoids from China? They’re incredibly capable (again, save for hands which is a huge mechanical and software problem) and cheap. [LINK] [VIDEO]
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Teknomancer · 2024-10 · Reference
After seeing the Chinese company Unitree tease this [VIDEO] , Optimus seems very unarticulated and clunky. And Unitree claim it would be a bit more than half the projected cost of the Tesla offering. Time will tell. My bets right now are not on Elon leading a Tesla supremacy in anything in the future—and that is unfortunate. I wish an American company could pull it off.
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ben_w · 2024-06 · Reference
> (Including, gradually, building you a body — while maintaining OPSEC and compartmentalization so nobody even realizes the body is "for" an AI to use until it's too late.) It could, but I don't think any such thing needs to bother with being sneaky. Here's five different product demos from five different companies that are all actively trying to show off how good their robot-and-AI combination is: * [LINK] * [LINK] * [LINK] * [LINK] * [VIDEO]
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