Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production

dragonelite

Dam china making gundams, before GTA 6.

tw1984

looks ugly.

KronisLV

What would you use it for that other machines are unsuitable for? Carrying stuff? Helping with somewhat heavy construction tasks? The torso seems a bit too in the way of the hands to be useful for anything. I mean, it looks cool but might be kinda useless.

msuniverse2026

Neat, I wonder just how far these things can be scaled.

kasperni

I want to watch Cybertruck vs GD01

toasty228

Wow it can even break a mortarless brick wall, impressive!

micromacrofoot

so when it's on all fours you're just on your back looking skyward?

joe_mamba

The design is very human

tedcrilly

Wonder if the security posture is as good as the robot dog Benn Jordan tested.

vessenes

Think of this like a car company having a racing program — building stuff like this will pay dividends elsewhere in the company; from product design to production chain. Example - boy, does that gait look uncomfortable to sit through. I can imagine wanting to spend more time on smoothness, careful foot planting, gait variations, etc. after having my R&D guys ride around in it. And with that done, I can imagine better wear cycles and faster, better looking small robots benefiting. I’ll also note that cockpit has been padded. I’d love to see the crash outtake videos.

NooneAtAll3

I remember years ago there was giant robot duel looong youtube video, a lot of unnecessary hyping - all to end in 5 second after one robot drove into the other and it just fell looks like someone made a supercut of all the fights, and it is still too long and has uncomfortable hyping from narrator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTkVrRkziDI

4ggr0

highly recommend watching the Benn Jordan video which interestingly enough dropped yesterday, "Robot Dogs Are A Security Nightmare"[0]. potential backdoors, weak security and other concerns. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI

fidotron

That we're all looking at a bipedal walking robot you can sit in and ride around and no one here seems remotely impressed by this is a sure sign we're in the future.

90d

We got the first real-life Spiderman villain before GTA VI

denvrede

Is there a video where the CEO is riding the robot? Because the video that is embedded in the X post doesn't show that at all. He is taking a seat there but it's clear that there is a puppet sitting in it (with a helmet on) when it's moving.

ksec

I have said it numerous times in the past 3-4 years. I believe robotics ( not just humanoids ) will be a bigger thing / threat than AI. And currently China is at least 5 years ahead of rest of the world.

maxglute

I like the almost lego arm attachment, I enjoy the thought that in future, some kid is bolting 4 junk yard arms to a scrap roll cage to build a quadruped menace.

AndrewKemendo

I’ve bought at least three Unitree products and they are great I just wish they would to hire people from the US cause I’d love to work there If anybody knows how to get a job there, I’ve talked with a bunch of people from the company, and they basically say “yeah we’re not hiring ever”

Theodores

Everything get heavy when machines get this big. I wonder what the optimal height is for a bipedal robot? With humans there are limits to height as the heart has more work to do in order to reach a brain that is higher up than it needs to be, plus things like backs give out. A lot of these humanoid robots are a tad diminutive, it will be interesting to see if that is the size that is settled on. Clearly there are constraints such as door sizes and what humans will accept, however, it will be a lot less clutter if the typical home has smaller rather than larger humanoid robots. I have every confidence I will have Optimus by next year, running with neuralink and able to tidy my sock drawer for me. But what size will he/she be?