Unitree will sell you a massive ‘transformable mecha’ for $650,000

Here’s however the GD01 (seen left) stacks up against Unitree’s CEO and existing humanoid robots. | Image: Unitree

Unitree is already 1 of the astir recognizable names successful the humanoid robot industry, but present it's pursuing adjacent nicher sci-fi tech: elephantine mech suits. The Chinese robotics institution has debuted the GD01, which it describes arsenic "the world's archetypal production-ready manned mecha," and it tin beryllium yours for a paltry $650,000.

What is it for? Well, Unitree doesn't truly explicate its intended functionality, but the GD01's introductory video connected YouTube provides immoderate ideas. Unitree shows it knocking implicit a partition of cinderblocks and switching betwixt bipedal presumption (which, to me, resembles the Power Loader that Ellen Ripley pilots successful Aliens) to a mode th …

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