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One particular humanoid robot really shone at the World Humanoid Robot Games over the weekend.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox
Tesla talks potential, Boston Dynamics’s videos wow, but it is a Chinese company, Unitree, that just put a real, capable humanoid robot on sale for less than $6,000, finds Satyen K. Bordoloi as he heralds the age of accessible robotics. On January 1 this ...
Unitree just dropped its latest creation, the R1 humanoid robot, and people are talking. At only $5,900, it's the most affordable bipedal robot we've seen so far. The low price has taken the tech world by surprise and kicked off a wave of excitement. It's a big step toward making humanoid robots more affordable for people.
Discover Unitree R1, a modular humanoid robot with 24 DOF and AI ready power—built to make robotics affordable for education and research.
For one thing, it’s a humanoid robot priced at under US$6,000 (£4,400). That’s not pocket change, but it’s orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The World Humanoid Robot Games delivered three days of robotic competition in events like running, boxing and soccer.
Chinese robot maker Unitree has shown off its next quadripedal robot dog, which is strong enough to hold a 220-pound adult on its back.
A Chinese-made Unitree R1 robot walked Manhattan streets and shopped for shoes as part of KraneShares' $28 million AI robotics fund promotion campaign.