This Humanoid Robot Can Do Cartwheels, Handstands And Roundhouse Kicks At Less Than $6,000

For little than nan value of a afloat decked-out MacBook Pro, you tin bargain Unitree's latest humanoid robot called nan R1. You only person to ammunition retired $5,900 for a robot that weighs astir 55 lbs, stands astir 4 feet tall, and is built pinch a Large Multimodal Model to grip analyzable tasks.

If you're wondering what nan R1 will beryllium utilized for, your conjecture is arsenic bully arsenic ours. Unitree said its robot is "fully customizable" and demoed its capabilities successful a video showing disconnected cartwheels, handstands, boxing, roundhouse kicks and moving downhill, but didn't connection examples pinch immoderate applicable usage yet. The lightweight robot has an ultra-wide position and a four-microphone array to thief it admit voices and images, but was besides built pinch Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity. It's not difficult to envision a world wherever group programme nan R1 arsenic a robot butler to grip regular chores, overmuch for illustration what Meta is reportedly moving on. However, you mightiness moreover beryllium capable to quadrate up 2 R1s to conflict each other, arsenic evidenced by Unitree promoting a unique fighting tournament that felt for illustration a little aesthetically polished type of 2011's Real Steel.

The latest R1 is simply a overmuch little introduction constituent than Unitree's erstwhile humanoid robot, nan G1, which starts astatine $16,000 and was demoed astatine CES 2025 pinch somewhat disastrous results. Even though nan R1's sub-$6,000 value tag is arguably high, it's still overmuch cheaper compared to different akin options, for illustration Tesla's Optimus bot that's expected to spell for astatine slightest $20,000.