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Unitree Robotics G1 (plus R1 / H1)
The flagship of the buyable humanoids — for developers, not dishes.
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
- G1 from ~$16,000
- Form factor
- Bipedal humanoid
- AI brain
- UnifoLM (in-house)
- Maker
- Unitree Robotics (China)
- Backing
- Profitable; IPO in registration (targeting ~$610–618M raise)
While Western startups burn billions getting to a product, Hangzhou-based Unitree simply sells robots. The G1 humanoid starts around $16,000 — five to ten times cheaper than Western rivals — ships today, and helped drive 2025 revenue to ¥1.71bn (~$248M), up 335% year-on-year with net profit up roughly 674%. The company filed for a ~$610M Shanghai STAR Market IPO in March 2026. In an industry of demos, Unitree has an income statement.
What the G1 is not: a home companion. It's a developer and research platform — brilliant for labs, universities, and serious tinkerers, but there is no chore autonomy out of the box; making it do anything useful is your job. Security is a live question too: researchers found a Bluetooth vulnerability that could chain G1s into a self-spreading 'robot botnet.' Buy it to build on, not to help around the house.
What's real
- • Actually shipping at ~$16,000 — the reference machine among the handful of buyable developer humanoids
- • A profitable maker at real scale (2025 revenue ~$248M, +335% YoY), with IPO-filing-grade numbers rather than press-release claims
- • Vertical integration (in-house actuators, LiDAR, control stack) is what makes the price possible
Know before you watch (or buy)
- • A developer platform, not a household helper — no useful home autonomy out of the box
- • Researchers demonstrated a Bluetooth vulnerability that could compromise fleets of G1s ('robot botnet')
- • Support, documentation, and ecosystem are geared to robotics developers, and buying/servicing outside China takes legwork
The evidence
2025 revenue ¥1.71bn (~$248M), up 335% YoY, with net profit up ~674%; filed for a ~$610M Shanghai STAR Market IPO in Mar 2026.
Sources: Reuters · Caixin Global · robotics.press · The New Yorker
Bottom line
If you're a developer, researcher, or serious hobbyist, the G1 is the default buy — of the small class of purchasable developer humanoids (see also EngineAI's PM01 and Booster's T1), nothing else combines its price, ecosystem, and a profitable, IPO-grade company behind it. If you want a robot that helps at home, this isn't that, and pretending otherwise is how you waste $16,000.
FAQ
Can a regular person buy a Unitree G1?
Yes — it ships today from about $16,000, making it the best-known of the handful of humanoids an individual can actually order (EngineAI's PM01 and Booster Robotics' T1 are the others). But it's a developer/research platform: it arrives with no useful household autonomy, and getting value from it means programming it yourself or using community tooling.
Is the Unitree G1 secure?
Treat security as a real concern. Security researchers disclosed a Bluetooth vulnerability that could let an attacker take control of a G1 and spread between robots ('a robot botnet'). If you deploy one, isolate it on your network, keep firmware current, and follow the disclosure literature.