Robot profile
R1 Robot Profile, Specs, Status
R1 robot profile: Unitree Robotics, announced status, specs, pricing notes, use cases, AI platform, and related Biped.News coverage.
Current status: Announced
Added under the 2025+ biped-only discovery rule. R1 appears to be a small bipedal humanoid for education, research, and consumer/demo use. It should remain hidden by default until support, programmability, safety, and customer evidence are clearer.
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Canonical robot facts
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| Field | Evidence in the database |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Unitree Robotics |
| Country | China |
| Commercial status | Announced |
| Category | Humanoid |
| Height | 123 cm |
| Weight | 25 kg |
| Payload | Not publicly documented |
| Battery runtime | Not publicly documented |
| Top speed | Not publicly documented |
| Degrees of freedom | Not publicly documented |
| Actuation | electric |
| AI platform | Unitree humanoid control stack |
| Pricing | R1 Air $4,900; R1 $5,900; R1 EDU requires a quote (disclosed) |
| Availability | contact-sales |
| Price verified | 2026-08-02 |
| Deployment evidence | Consumer/education humanoid launch; no named deployment evidence found |
| Use cases | Research & education, Developer platform, Consumer service |
| Last source verification | 2026-08-02 |
Deployment evidence
Canonical deployment summary: Consumer/education humanoid launch; no named deployment evidence found
Evidence timeline
Dated profile, specification, funding, deployment, safety, article and data changes from the public entity-update feed.
- Normalized humanoid robot pricing and availabilitydata-change · high confidence
- R1 profile and specifications reviewedspecifications · low confidence
- Unitree's Low-Cost Humanoids Put the Industry on a Teardown Clockarticle · high confidence
- Unitree R1 Goes Global: A $4,900 Humanoid Robot Now on AliExpressarticle · high confidence
Primary sources
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