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HumanoidUnitree Robotics2025CN

Unitree R1

Low-cost, lightweight 1.23 m humanoid with 20-26 DOF, sold in AIR, standard and EDU trims.

activeBuyL1 Compilednot buildable

Difficulty index

10.4/13
10.4
Index breakdown
Classhumanoid+5
Cost$5,900 list+1.8
DOF26 DOF+2.6
Partsunknown · midpoint+1
How the index works

Top of the ladder. This robot lives on the humanoid domains.

Specimen photographs

4 items
  • Unitree R1 studio render, three-quarter front view
    Studio render of the published URDF, the model's zero pose. Geometry only; colours are the model's own materials.Rendered by Hyperspawn from unitreerobotics/unitree_ros (BSD-3-Clause) · Hyperspawn render · source
  • Unitree R1 studio render, side view
    Side view of the same URDF render, the model's zero pose.Rendered by Hyperspawn from unitreerobotics/unitree_ros (BSD-3-Clause) · Hyperspawn render · source
  • 4 s turntable of the URDF studio render.Rendered by Hyperspawn from unitreerobotics/unitree_ros (BSD-3-Clause) · Hyperspawn render · source
  • Unitree Introducing | Unitree R1 Intelligent Companion Price from $5900Unitree Robotics · official video, embedded · source

Spec card

8/13 known
Degrees of freedom
26
Height
123 cm
Mass
29 kg
Runtime
60 min
Price
$5,900 · unitree.com: R1 AIR (20 DOF) US$4,900, R1 US$5,900; R1 EDU contact-sales. Mass is about 27-29 kg depending on model.
Actuators
Unitree in-house electric joint motors
Compute
8-core CPU; optional Jetson Orin (40-100 TOPS)
Sensors
4-mic array, monocular or binocular camera, joint encoders

Not in the registry: payload, speed, battery, bom total, part count. Left blank rather than guessed.

What you learn building it

  • +Whole-body control
  • +Dozens of actuators on one bus
  • +Balance and fall handling
  • +Safe bring-up of a full-size machine
  • +Testing in simulation (URDF/MJCF) before touching hardware

Openness

30/100
  • not publicCAD
  • not publicBOM
  • not publicFirmware
  • publicSim model
  • publicSoftware
  • not publicPolicies

Score 30/100 computed from what is public: CAD 25, BOM 20, sim 20, firmware 15, software 10, policies 10. Hardware license: Proprietary. Software license: BSD-3-Clause.

Repos & models

URDF ↗
SiteBuy

Build it

Closed hardware. Buy link only.

humanoidrobot.build/unitree/r1 · Closed hardware. Buy link only.

Simulate

Load it in the browser simulator and train a policy before building.

Open on humanoidrobots.training ↗

Next rung

None. This is the top. Find people building it on humanoidrobots.team.

This is the top of the ladder.

NoteYear 2025 is from launch coverage, not the maker page. unitree_ros also includes r1_air, r1_a5 and r1_a7 description variants.

Sources

  1. [1]Unitree R1 product pagechecked 2026-09-24
  2. [2]unitree_ros URDFschecked 2026-09-24