R1
The cheapest full-body humanoid from a major maker: 1.23 m, 27-29 kg, and under $6,000. It can run, cartwheel and chat through a built-in multimodal model, but runtime is about an hour and arm payload is small. Treat it as a developer toy and demo platform, not a helper.
- Price
- $4,900Shipped R1 AIR $4,900; R1 $5,900; R1 EDU quote-only. Shipping ($300-$1,200) and import duties extra. Launched in China at 39,900 yuan.
- Status
- ShippingShipped Announced July 2025; sold globally via Unitree store and AliExpress since April 2026
- Height
- 1.23 m
- Weight
- 27 kg
- Payload
- 2 kg
- Runtime
- 1 h
- Top speed
- —
- Degrees of freedom
- 26
- Hand DoF
- —
- Compute
- 8-core CPU; optional NVIDIA Jetson Orin (40-100 TOPS) on EDU
- Made in
- China
A dash means the maker has not published it. Values with a label are claims, not measurements.
Trust and legalWhat these mean
Does a remote human drive it?
Partly
Ships with preset motions and voice or vision chat. Useful behaviors need EDU programming.
US FCC
Authorized
FCC ID 2A5PE-YUSHU010, reported granted 2026-06-22, before the July 28 cutoff (per RoboZaps' tracker; not independently checked in the FCC database).
Known security issues
No R1-specific CVE found. It shares Unitree's software stack, which had the 2025 UniPwn BLE flaw.
Status history3 dated events
- Shipping
FCC authorization reported granted (2A5PE-YUSHU010). Humanoid Robots Legal in the US (RoboZaps)
- Shipping
R1 goes on sale globally on AliExpress (North America, Europe, Japan) from $4,900. Unitree R1 Humanoid Hits AliExpress With a $4,900 Price Tag
- Announced
Unitree debuts the R1 at 39,900 yuan (about $5,900). China's Unitree debuts US$5,900 humanoid robot (SCMP)
PromisesLedger
- Unitree1 kept
The R1 humanoid would go on sale worldwide through AliExpress the following week, for North America, Europe, Japan and Singapore
KeptBy 2026-04-13 the R1 was listed on AliExpress through Unitree's Brand+ channel, from about $6,802 (EDU about $8,123). That is well above the roughly $4,370 domestic China price. Source
CoverageAll news
Sources for specs and status
- Unitree R1 product page27 Sep 2026
- Unitree R1 - Unitree store27 Sep 2026
- China's Unitree Offers a Humanoid Robot for Under $6,000 (Bloomberg)25 Jul 2025
Last updated 27 Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Send a correction.