Best full-size humanoid for a research lab
Human scale, real payload, and a maker that will still be there in three years.
Unitree G1
The default humanoid of the moment, and the only full-featured machine that a well-funded individual can order without a procurement department. It walks, runs, gets up off the floor and has more third-party code written for it than anything else on this list. The catch is the configuration ladder: the $13,500 machine cannot run your own code, and the version that can starts at $43,900.
- Buy it if
- Labs, universities and serious builders who want the platform everybody else is already using.
- Skip it if
- You expected the advertised price to buy a programmable robot. It does not.
In its favour
- Enormous community and open SDK
- Learned locomotion that genuinely works
- Folds to 69 cm for transport
Against it
- Standard version is closed to your own code
- Backordered more often than not
- Two hours of battery in practice
- Height
- 132 cm
- Weight
- 35 kg
- Joints
- 23 degrees of freedom
- Autonomy
- Partly teleoperated
- Availability
- in stock, backordered, ships when restocked
The next best.
AgiBot A2
The Yuanzheng A2 family is AgiBot's production line, covering a bipedal interaction robot, a wheeled industrial model, a heavy-duty model and a data-collection model.
Unitree R1
A first walking robot, on a budget, where dropping it is not a catastrophe.
Everything that qualifies.
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