Robots are no longer exclusive to laboratories and factories and are coming directly to the consumer, sold online through AliExpress with a starting price of around $4,900, Unitree Robotics is about to launch its new humanoid robot to the global market with that value that completely changes the rules of the game.

The new model called R1 was designed to be accessible, compact and surprisingly capable, with a little more than 1.20 cm of height around 25 kg and dozens of degrees of freedom it can execute complex movements, including running and even acrobatics, but the most important thing is not what it does today, it is what it represents, because by placing a functional humanoid robot in a global marketplace, Unitree is not just selling a product, it is creating a brand and an ecosystem.