Unitree R1

Name: Unitree R1
Brand: Unitree
Price: 5900 USD
Availability: InStock

Shipping 2025

Ultra-light 1.23 m developer humanoid from $5,900 that runs, cartwheels and kickboxes, sold directly on Unitree's online store.

Overview

Unveiled in July 2025, the Unitree R1 broke the price floor for full humanoids at $5,900 (R1 AIR from $4,900), undercutting Unitree's own G1. It is an ultra-lightweight ~29 kg platform with 26 degrees of freedom, binocular vision, a 4-microphone array and voice/image recognition, capable of dynamic feats like cartwheels and spin-kicks. It ships worldwide from shop.unitree.com with a quick-swap battery and open SDK, and a quote-only R1 EDU adds NVIDIA Orin compute for research. The R1 cemented Unitree's low-cost leadership as the company moved toward its 2026 IPO and an NVIDIA humanoid platform partnership.

Use cases

Research & education Developer platform Entertainment & demos

Capability evidence

Cartwheels and handstands

Launch videos showed the 25 kg R1 running, cartwheeling, doing handstands and spin-kicks as an agile sub-$6,000 humanoid. The Robot Report ↗ · 2025-07
Voice-AI interaction

Demonstrated onboard multimodal voice and image recognition (UnifoLM model) with binocular vision and a 4-microphone array. Unitree (official) ↗ · 2025-07