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China’s Unitree prices new humanoid robot at deep discount to 2024 model

HANGZHOU, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE, CHINA, JUL 25 – Unitree Robotics' R1 robot weighs 25kg, performs athletic moves, and costs $5,900, making humanoid AI more affordable for developers and consumers, company said.

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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s homegrown robotics company Unitree Robotics on Friday launched a new bipedal humanoid robot at a starting price of 39,900 yuan ($5,566), a deep discount to the 2024 price of a previous model as manufacturing costs declined. R1, weighing about 25 kilograms, uses a multimodal large language model integrating speech and image modalities, according to a post on its RedNote account. The new model costs a fraction of G1, a p…

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WTVB broke the news in on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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