You’ll need to teach this $16,000 humanoid robot how to make breakfast

Robots susceptible of performing human-like tasks person truthful acold been relegated to laboratories, factories, and captivating YouTube demos. But Unitree is readying its G1 humanoid robot for wide accumulation with a $16,000 terms tag that someway feels some costly and tenable for a robot that looks this capable, arsenic spotted by New Atlas.

The Unitree G1 is an upgraded and accumulation acceptable version of the H1 humanoid bot the Chinese institution debuted lone a twelvemonth ago. Powered by an unnamed “8-core high-performance CPU,” the G1 features 23 degrees of state done powered joints connected its arms, legs, and torso. The robot tin jump, locomotion astatine a apical velocity of implicit 4.4 mph, and adjacent ascent stairs littered with operation debris. How good it tin grip stairs cluttered with random shoes and kid’s toys remains to beryllium seen.

The stumps connected the ends of the H1’s arms person been replaced with three-fingered hands connected the G1, which person been demonstrated to beryllium dextrous capable to solder wires, grip delicate objects, and adjacent flip foods successful a frying pan. The robot’s LED-adorned caput hides a imaginativeness strategy based connected a Livox Mid-360 LiDAR camera and an Intel RealSense D435 extent camera, allowing the G1 to spot the satellite successful 3D.

Standing astir conscionable 4.3 feet tall, the robot tin fold down adjacent smaller for easier transport and storage. However, astatine a small implicit 77 pounds with its two-hour 9,000mAh artillery battalion attached, Unitree’s G1 decidedly isn’t a lightweight.

Before the debut of its humanoid robots, Unitree was champion known for its quadruped robots designed to beryllium likewise susceptible to Boston Dynamics’ Spot, lone overmuch smaller and cheaper. While Spot tin beryllium purchased for $74,500, the Unitree Go2 starts astatine $1,600. Boston Dynamics hasn’t revealed however overmuch its Atlas humanoid robots cost, and portion Elon Musk has claimed Tesla’s Optimus Gen 2 robot volition outgo “much little than $20,000,” Unitree’s G1 volition perchance beryllium 1 of the archetypal susceptible humanoid robots you tin bring home.

Unitree hasn’t revealed precisely erstwhile the production-ready mentation of the G1 volition really beryllium available, but erstwhile it is, imaginable customers shouldn’t expect it to stroll into the room and navigator meal close retired of the box. The humanoid is designed to larn done imitation utilizing the company’s Unitree Robot Unified Large Model (UnifoLM), and its archetypal entreaty volition beryllium arsenic an affordable humanoid level for conducting robotics probe — not arsenic a existent beingness mentation of Rosey the Robot from The Jetsons.