# Unitree G1

> Unitree G1 is a compact, battery-powered humanoid robot that turns a formerly lab-scale machine into something buyers can order online from $13,500. Its balance, joint range, sensors and active developer ecosystem make the EDU model a credible platform for robotics teams, but the base price excludes secondary development, dexterous hands and higher-end compute. The smart purchase is for a funded lab, university, integrator or media team with a defined experiment, a safe operating space and enough budget for the configuration that can actually do the work.

- **Created by:** Unitree Robotics
- **Launched:** 2024
- **Platforms:** hardware, linux, ros-2, ios-companion-app, android-companion-app
- **Pricing:** Paid. Unitree's global online store listed the non-developer G1 at US$13,500 on 2026-08-18, plus US$300 to US$1,200 shipping, customs duties, taxes and import clearance. The base product does not support secondary development. G1 EDU pricing is quote-based and rises with additional joints, compute, dexterous hands and tactile options.
- **Key features:** Compact humanoid body, 23 to 43 joint motors, Perception and audio, Optional dexterous manipulation, Developer tooling

## Features

- **Compact humanoid body** — The G1 stands 1,320 × 450 × 200 mm, weighs about 35 kg with battery and folds to 690 × 450 × 300 mm for transport and storage.
- **23 to 43 joint motors** — The base model has 23 joint motors; G1 EDU configurations can add waist, arm, wrist and hand articulation for as many as 43.
- **Perception and audio** — A depth camera, 3D LiDAR, four-microphone array and 5 W speaker provide the onboard sensing and audio interfaces used by robot applications.
- **Optional dexterous manipulation** — EDU configurations can add force-controlled three-finger Dex3-1 hands with seven active degrees of freedom per hand and optional multi-point tactile arrays.
- **Developer tooling** — EDU buyers can use Unitree SDK2, C++ and Python interfaces, ROS 2 over Cyclone DDS, official MuJoCo assets and Unitree's Isaac Lab-based reinforcement-learning repository.
- **Quick-release battery** — The 13-series 9,000 mAh lithium battery is removable and Unitree lists about two hours of runtime, with actual duration dependent on movement and workload.

## Achievements

- Moved from a May 2024 unveiling to a mass-production announcement in August 2024.
- Unitree demonstrated what it described as the first standing side flip by a humanoid robot in March 2025.
- Became a widely used physical test platform in published research on locomotion, motion tracking, teleoperation and manipulation.
- Helped move advanced humanoid hardware into a direct-purchase price band, with the global base price later reduced from the launch-era US$16,000 to US$13,500.
- Supported official open-source robot descriptions, SDK interfaces, MuJoCo simulation and reinforcement-learning deployment tools.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Unitree showed voice-driven, real-time generation of whole-body G1 actions and disclosed that the recorded demonstration could have slight latency because actions were generated in real time.
- **2026-04** — Unitree demonstrated experimental G1 mobility variants using wheels, roller skates and ice skates.
- **2025-12** — Unitree opened UniStore, its application-sharing platform for robot tasks and actions, initially with an international version still forthcoming.
- **2025-03** — Unitree published a G1 standing side-flip demonstration.
- **2024-11** — Unitree released an open G1 robot-operation dataset intended for embodied-AI research and adaptation to open-source training solutions.
- **2024-08** — Unitree announced the production-ready G1 at about US$16,000 after first unveiling the model in May.

## Links

- Website: https://www.unitree.com/g1/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unitreerobotics
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/UnitreeRobotics
- GitHub: https://github.com/unitreerobotics
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unitreerobotics
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unitreerobot

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Last updated: 2026-08-18