Unitree Robotics

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A Hangzhou maker of quadruped and humanoid robots, known for low-cost, high-performance hardware.

Unitree Robotics was founded in Hangzhou in August 2016 by Xingxing Wang, who built a quadruped prototype called XDog at Shanghai University during his graduate studies. Unitree drove down the price of legged robots sharply through in-house motors and control software: its quadrupeds include the Go1, Go2, and B2, and its humanoids include the H1, the G1 (released 2024, starting at RMB 99,000), and the H2 (October 2025). Thanks to their low price and open SDK, the G1 and Go2 have become among the most commonly used real robots in university locomotion-control and humanoid-VLA papers; an H1 performing the dance 'Yangbot' at China's 2025 CCTV Spring Festival Gala (China's most-watched TV broadcast) went viral. The company also open-sources its UnifoLM model series. It began IPO coaching in July 2025 and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market in August 2026 (688836).

ExampleMany humanoid reinforcement-learning papers use unitree_rl_gym to train a walking policy in simulation, then deploy it onto a real Unitree G1.

Also called: Unitree, 宇树 (colloquial Chinese short form)
Related: Unitree G1 · Unitree Go2 · Unitree H2 · UnifoLM · Hangzhou's Six Little Dragons · STAR Market
Sources: Unitree Robotics - Wikipedia
Unitree G1
unitreerobotics/unifolm-wla - GitHub
As of: 2026-08