From drones to self-driving cars, most robots today aren’t the humanoid versions imagined in science fiction. One exception is the R1 from China-based Unitree Robotics. Introduced in July with a ...

Unitree just dropped its latest creation, the R1 humanoid robot, and people are talking. At only $5,900, it's the most affordable bipedal robot we've seen so far. The low price has taken the tech ...

The Unitree R1 costs as much as a high-end e-bike, and you can make it fight for you. Reading time 3 minutes “Dance for me, robot,” you scream at your mechanical servant from your gilded throne. “Now ...

For less than the price of a fully decked-out MacBook Pro, you can buy Unitree's latest humanoid robot called the R1. You only have to shell out $5,900 for a robot that weighs around 55 lbs, stands ...

What if the future of robotics wasn’t confined to industrial labs or sci-fi movies but could be held in your hands, ready to teach, learn, and innovate alongside you? Enter the Unitree R1, a humanoid ...

The price tag is orders of magnitude cheaper than most robots in its class, which can run into tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now China’s Unitree Robotics, best known for its nimble ...

*At Shanghai’s World AI Conference on July 25, Unitree Robotics unveiled the R1, a 4-foot-tall humanoid robot priced at just 39,900 yuan ($5,900). According to Hype Fresh, this sleek, 55-pound marvel ...

R1 is the latest contraption to join the steadily expanding field of humanoid robots. Officially unveiled this week at a tech conference in Shanghai, China, R1 is from Robbyant, a unit of Ant Group, ...

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