Unitree R1
🇨🇳 Unitree Robotics · China
A small, lightweight humanoid: 1.23 m tall, 26 DoF (20 DoF on the Air), official price from USD 4,900 — Unitree's cheapest entry point for research, teaching and demos
Photo: Sayanesy · Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · stand-in photo of the Unitree G1, not an R1
Key specs
- Weight
- 29 kg
- Height
- 1,230 mm
- Battery
- 1 h
Common use cases
- ▸ Locomotion / control research platform
- ▸ University teaching
- ▸ Demos and events
- ▸ Custom development via open joint/sensor interfaces
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The R1 is the entry point of Unitree’s humanoid line
Unitree launched the R1 in late July 2025 at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. Its selling point is a price clearly below the rest of the brand’s line-up while still being a full bipedal humanoid.
Specs from the official unitree.com product page:
| R1 AIR | R1 (Standard) | |
|---|---|---|
| Total DoF | 20 | 26 |
| Weight | ~27 kg | ~29 kg |
| Arms | 4 DoF each | 5 DoF each |
| Waist / head | None | Waist 2 DoF · head 2 DoF |
| Camera | Monocular | Binocular |
| Official price | USD 4,900 | USD 5,900 |
- Standing dimensions 1230 × 357 × 190 mm · 6 DoF per leg
- Lithium battery, about 1 hour of runtime per charge (figure from the official page)
- 8-core processor · 4-mic array · Wi-Fi 6 · Bluetooth 5.2
- Ships with a Large Multimodal Model for voice and images, and fully open control interfaces for joints and sensors
- There is also an R1 EDU variant, listed as “Contact Sales” with no published price
Outlets covering the launch reported that the R1 can perform agile moves such as cartwheels and kung-fu-style kicks.
Pricing for Thai buyers
USD 4,900 / 5,900 is the price on Unitree’s own store. There is no official Thai retail price from a local distributor, so the baht price field on this page is left empty — buyers must add shipping, import duties and the importer’s service costs for whichever channel they use.
Compare with the bigger models in this catalog: Unitree G1 and Unitree H2 Plus, or see the Humanoid overview.
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