At CES 2025, we get hands-on with the Unitree's G1 Humanoid and Go2 Canine robots, learn how to control them, and take them for a spin.
We're here with a very special edition of What the Future. It's not every day you get to be hands on 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 some of the other humanoid robots out there, but I think that's what makes it special. So let's get into some of the details right now. The Unitree G1, you can actually buy it right now via Looking Glass XR. You'll notice that the price is a little bit higher. Unitree's been advertising it is starting at $16,000 but via Looking Glass XR, the starting price is actually $28,000. That's because via these resellers are available in the US market, whereas the $160 starting cost is for the Chinese market. The base model. You can only operate via remote control, which you'll see me do. There's a lot of ways you can customize them. You can add on different attachments and parts and hands. The early units of these are aimed at developers who are going to help build out the capabilities of this humanoid robot. So this is the control unit for the Unit Tree G1. This is my first time getting to walking around and see how it goes. So this is uh forward and we can take it backwards here can turn it to the right and walk it and then it's got some uh pre-programmed moves we can do here. So I think select A is the handshake. These hands are for show, but there's different add-on hands that you can get to do different functions. We've seen it dancing in some videos. It's not gonna be dancing here because I think it's a little too crowded. You can preprogram those movements if you want to. This is the closest I'm gonna get to, uh, dancing with the G1 while we're here at CES. Some fast facts about the Unitree G1. You got a built-in microphone. They're working on some chat GBT integration so that you'll be able to talk to it. As for how it perceives the world, you've got a depth camera and LIDAR built into the facial zone here. So you see in a lot of robot videos, uh, companies like to make sure their things are kind of robust. So they kind of push them around a little bit, making sure that they can take any kind of bumps they might take in the real world. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, you know, I was just testing you out. OK. One of the things about the Unit3G1 is it can fold down to even smaller for like shipping and storage, and I think there's even a more folded up version that we've seen in some of the videos where the legs kind of cross and it gets even tighter and more compact. This is the Unitree Go2. It's one of their four-legged robots. They've also got the Go to WW meaning wheels, and this is the controls for it. So let's have a little fun. Right now it's in AI walking mode. The AI is sort of uh trying to plan the movements, but I'm controlling where it actually goes. So now the robot is in free avoid mode, so it's a little skittish. Uh, you know, it's trying not to bump into any. Thing and I'm getting in its face, so it's like backing up so you can see on the screen a map of how the robot is perceiving the environment with the liar and uh making sure it doesn't hit hit stuff when it's in free avoid mode. So this is the handstand mode on uh on the go to and uh. It does. You can still control it while it's 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 uh Unit Tree homies for showing us some of their moves. Subscribe so you don't miss more of the latest and greatest. But Do a kick flip. I haven't found the kick flip button yet.
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