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It's cheaper than I would have expected. Are there other humanoid robots out there at this price?

by awongh 1y ago

throwaway7783 1y ago
There is Unitree, runs on Ros. I saw a demo a few days back and looked capable. Hands need to be bought separately though
- codekansas 1y ago
  Yes, our goal is to be Unitree-level but US-based so we don't have tariff issues
- alex1115alex 1y ago
  The Unitree robots look great in videos, kind of suck in reality. The motors in the humanoid (G1) overheat after shaking hands a few times, and the wheeled dog (GO2W) drifts like a broken RC car and constantly topples over in motion. They also patched the known jailbreak methods early this year, so all newer models lack sensor access unless you pay Unitree massive $$$ for SDK access. The base Go2 is a fun toy, though. There’s a high level web SDK you can use for free.
  - codekansas 1y ago
    Yeah, Unitree SDK being such a marked-up price is frankly kind of antagonistic towards developers
codekansas 1y ago
Yea, we built everything ourselves and tried to stay as low-cost as possible. In my opinion, humanoid robots are not very capable right now, so we sell it for a bit above cost for the time being. As the software capabilities improve we will increase the price.
Animats 1y ago
There are at least 18 humanoid robots far enough along to have YouTube videos.[1] That's from February 2024. As far as I can tell, none have an order page where you jut enter a credit card number and get the product. It's all "pre-order", "contact sales", or just plain vagueness. There are a lot of "really great, real soon now" humanoid robot startups.[2][3] As far as I can tell, nobody has yet deployed one in a production environment. On the mechanical engineering side, it's likely that a drone company will have the first big low-cost product. Drone companies have people who understand sensors, balance, navigation, reliability, and weight/cost/strength tradeoffs. [1] https://james.darpinian.com/blog/you-havent-seen-these-real-humanoid-robot-demos https://james.darpinian.com/blog/you-havent-seen-these-real-... [2] https://personainc.ai/ https://personainc.ai/ [3] https://gotokepler.com/ https://gotokepler.com/
Geee 1y ago
Agibot X1 is around $15k fully assembled. https://agibotmall.com https://agibotmall.com

It's cheaper than I would have expected. Are there other humanoid robots out there at this price?

by awongh 1y ago

It's cheaper than I would have expected. Are there other humanoid robots out there at this price?

There is Unitree, runs on Ros. I saw a demo a few days back and looked capable. Hands need to be bought separately though

codekansas 1y ago
Yes, our goal is to be Unitree-level but US-based so we don't have tariff issues
alex1115alex 1y ago
The Unitree robots look great in videos, kind of suck in reality. The motors in the humanoid (G1) overheat after shaking hands a few times, and the wheeled dog (GO2W) drifts like a broken RC car and constantly topples over in motion. They also patched the known jailbreak methods early this year, so all newer models lack sensor access unless you pay Unitree massive $$$ for SDK access. The base Go2 is a fun toy, though. There’s a high level web SDK you can use for free.
- codekansas 1y ago
  Yeah, Unitree SDK being such a marked-up price is frankly kind of antagonistic towards developers

codekansas 1y ago

Yea, we built everything ourselves and tried to stay as low-cost as possible. In my opinion, humanoid robots are not very capable right now, so we sell it for a bit above cost for the time being. As the software capabilities improve we will increase the price.

Animats 1y ago

There are at least 18 humanoid robots far enough along to have YouTube videos.[1] That's from February 2024. As far as I can tell, none have an order page where you jut enter a credit card number and get the product. It's all "pre-order", "contact sales", or just plain vagueness. There are a lot of "really great, real soon now" humanoid robot startups.[2][3] As far as I can tell, nobody has yet deployed one in a production environment. On the mechanical engineering side, it's likely that a drone company will have the first big low-cost product. Drone companies have people who understand sensors, balance, navigation, reliability, and weight/cost/strength tradeoffs. [1] https://james.darpinian.com/blog/you-havent-seen-these-real-humanoid-robot-demos https://james.darpinian.com/blog/you-havent-seen-these-real-... [2] https://personainc.ai/ https://personainc.ai/ [3] https://gotokepler.com/ https://gotokepler.com/

Geee 1y ago

Agibot X1 is around $15k fully assembled. https://agibotmall.com https://agibotmall.com