China's robotics company prices new humanoid robot at Ksh.719K
Passersby film a Unitree G1 humanoid robot operated by a staff member, in between Unitree's demonstrations to Reuters, at a park in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China March 21, 2025. REUTERS
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China's homegrown robotics company Unitree Robotics on Friday launched a new bipedal humanoid robot at a starting price of Ksh.719,000 ($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 popular bipedal that Unitree launched in 2024 at a starting price of Ksh.1.7 million. The latest R1 model is also lighter than the 35-kg G1.
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