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EngineAI PM01
The viral-gait humanoid you can actually order — open source and shipping.
We haven't tested this machine hands-on, so this profile carries no rating — every fact below traces to the sources at the end, and the judgments are clearly ours. Full methodology on the Robot Tracker.
At a glance
- Status
- ShippingReal units delivered to paying customers
- Can you buy it?
- Yes
- Price
- ~$19,000–26,000 via Western distributors (editions vary); SE01 ~$54,000
- Form factor
- Bipedal humanoid (compact)
- AI brain
- End-to-end neural-network gait; open source, ROS support
- Maker
- EngineAI (China)
- Backing
- Private (Shenzhen startup)
Shenzhen's EngineAI went viral for solving the thing that makes most humanoids look wrong: walking. The PM01's end-to-end neural gait produces a natural, human-like stride (and the first front-flipping humanoid demos) instead of the industry's bent-knee shuffle. More importantly for buyers: it's genuinely purchasable — Western distributors list the 138 cm, ~40 kg robot at roughly $19,000–26,000 depending on edition, shipping in about a week, with the larger SE01 around $54,000.
It's open source with full ROS support, a dual-chip Intel + Nvidia Jetson architecture, and 24 degrees of freedom including a party-trick 320° waist. Like every buyable humanoid, it's a development platform — the customer is researchers, universities, and commercial demo teams, not households. Within that class it's the G1's most credible rival, and often the more expressive machine.
What's real
- • Actually orderable and shipping via distributors — one of only three buyable humanoids
- • The most natural walking gait in the industry (end-to-end neural network), plus genuine acrobatic capability
- • Open source with ROS and cross-platform support — built to be developed on
Know before you watch (or buy)
- • A developer platform: 2 kg payload, ~2-hour battery, decorative hands — nothing here does useful work out of the box
- • A young startup without Unitree's revenue, ecosystem, or IPO-grade transparency
- • Distributor-market pricing varies widely (~$19k–40k across editions and regions) — compare configurations carefully
The evidence
Shipping to buyers through international distributors; known for the industry's most natural neural-network walking gait and viral acrobatics demos.
Sources: Robots International · Sonny Robotics
Bottom line
The most charismatic of the buyable developer humanoids. Pick the PM01 over a G1 if expressive, natural motion is your research interest; pick the G1 if you want the bigger ecosystem and the safer corporate bet.
FAQ
Can you buy an EngineAI PM01?
Yes — it's one of the few humanoids an individual or lab can actually order. Western distributors list the PM01 at roughly $19,000–26,000 depending on edition (education vs commercial), often shipping within a week or two; the larger SE01 runs around $54,000. It's a research and development platform, not a home robot.