Are all the videos on the main page CGI? Sure looks like it.
The demo with the walnuts and coke sure looks like CGI.
So this is like a kickstarter where they promise the world using CGI/mockups and then maybe deliver?
The demo with the walnuts and coke sure looks like CGI.
So this is like a kickstarter where they promise the world using CGI/mockups and then maybe deliver?
Unitree already makes a larger humanoid called H1 that has shipped to customers, and they have manufactured cheap robot dogs in volume for many years. They are a legit company. The only thing questionable here is the price, it'll probably be more than quoted. But it'll still be cheap for a humanoid.
The videos of it moving that I have seen, and I did some Twitter searches, are all CGI.
I have no doubt they will sell a robot, but it isn't clear it will move like in robot the CGI videos or have those capabilities.
Last year, I had a chance to see Unitree H1 in action, in person. It's their previous model, a bigger one. Still, it was very real, very capable and very scary. I suppose, the choice to make a smaller G1 is in part to make it less dangerous, both perceptually and because it's less mass and energy.
https://www.unitree.com/images/Unitree%20G1%20EN%201080p%20%...