Hands-On with Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot – Video

At CES 2025, get hands-on with Unitree’s G1 Humanoid and Go2 Canine robots, learn how to control them, and take them for a spin.

We are here with a very special edition of What the Future. It’s not every day that you get to be hands with a robot that you’ve seen so many times before from afar. This is the Unit Tree G1, and as you can tell, it’s a little shorter than the other humanoid robots out there, but I think that’s what makes it special. So let’s get into some of the details now. The Unitree G1, you can actually buy now via Looking Glass XR. You will notice that the price is a little higher. Unitree announced that it starts at $16,000 but via Looking Glass XR, the starting price is actually $28,000. It is because via these retailers are available in the US market, while the starting cost of $ 160 is for the Chinese market. The basic model. You can only operate via a remote control, which you see me doing. There are many ways you can customize it. You can add different attachments and parts and hands. The first units of these are aimed at developers who will help build the capabilities of this humanoid robot. So this is the control unit for the G1 Tree Unit. This is my first time to walk and see how it goes. So this is uh forward and we can take it back here, we can turn right and walk, and then we have some pre-programmed movements that we can do here. So I think select A is the handshake. These hands are for show, but there are different add-on hands that you can get to perform different functions. We have seen her dancing in some videos. Won’t be dancing here because I think it’s a bit too crowded. You can preprogram those moves if you want. This is the closest I’m going to get to, uh, dancing with the G1 while we’re here at CES. Some quick facts about Unitree G1. You have a built-in microphone. They are working on some GBT chat integration so you can talk to him. As it perceives the world, you have a depth camera and LIDAR integrated into the facial area here. So you see in a lot of robot videos, uh, companies like to make sure their stuff is a little bit robust. So they push them a little, making sure they can take any kind of bumps they might take in the real world. I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you, you know, I was just trying to tell you. OK. One of the things about the 3G1 Unit is that it can fold up even smaller for transport and storage, and I think there’s even a more folded version that we’ve seen in some of the videos where the legs cross over and fit. even narrower and more compact. This is the Unitree Go2. It’s one of their four-legged robots. They also have the Go to WW which means wheels, and that’s the controls for it. So we’ll have some fun. It is now in AI walking mode. The AI ​​is sort of trying to plan the moves, but I control where it actually goes. So now the robot is in free dodge mode, so it’s a bit of a joke. Uh, you know, he’s trying not to bump into anyone. The thing and I’m in the face, so it’s like a backup so that you can see on the screen a map of how the robot perceives the environment with the liar and make sure that it doesn’t hit things when it’s in free avoid the way. So this is the hand way on uh back and forth. face You can also control it while in handstand mode. It moves a little slower, but it’s pretty cool. So, as you can see, it’s a robot party here at CES. Thanks to these Unit Tree friends for showing us some of their moves. Subscribe so you don’t miss out on the latest and greatest. But do a kick flip. I still haven’t found the kick flip button.