Unitree G1-D
The Unitree G1-D is Unitree's first wheeled humanoid, launched in November 2025 with dual 7 degree of freedom arms on a millimeter precise lifting column spanning 1,260 to 1,680 millimeters, offered as a fixed base Standard and a LiDAR navigating Flagship that runs up to six hours, built for AI data collection, model training and real world task execution.
Unitree G1-D
Bipedal humanoids pay a permanent tax that nobody itemizes: balance. Every second on two legs spends energy, computation and control bandwidth just staying upright, before a single useful task begins. In November 2025, Unitree shipped the machine that stops paying it: the Unitree G1-D, the company's first wheeled humanoid, a dual 7 degree of freedom arm upper body on a stable base, and the dividend the design collects is exactly what the embodied AI era is short of, working hours. The Flagship version operates up to six hours per charge, triple the endurance of its bipedal siblings, hours spent entirely on manipulation, and on recording it.
Recording is the mission. The G1-D was purpose built for large scale data collection and AI model training: vision language action models and imitation learning policies consume millions of demonstration episodes, and generating them efficiently rewards a platform that is stable, tireless and instrumented, which the G1-D is to an unusual degree, a high definition stereo head camera plus a camera on each wrist watching every grasp from the angles that matter, feeding Unitree's end to end software pipeline for capture, annotation, training and deployment. It executes real tasks in industrial, warehouse, service and retail settings with the same hardware, the working robot and the teaching robot in one chassis.
Within Unitree's range, the G1-D carries the G1 generation into the wheeled humanoid format, between the compact R1-D family and the industrial H2-D. The Unitree G1-D for sale, with full specifications, can be explored through this page.
Background
Why Unitree built its first wheeled humanoid
By late 2025, the field's constraint had shifted from robot capability to training data supply: the models that would make humanoids general needed demonstration episodes at a scale bipedal platforms collect inefficiently, their battery hours short, their balance overhead constant, their camera coverage incomplete. The G1-D answered as a specialized instrument, wheels for stability and endurance, a lifting column for workspace range, cameras placed for episode quality, and software integration through the full annotation, training and deployment cycle, including GR00T era workflows, hardware designed backward from the dataset it exists to produce.
Two versions, one upper body
The line's fundamental split is the base. The G1-D Standard mounts the upper body on a fixed foundation, roughly 50 kilograms of stationary capture and manipulation station, powered by battery or continuously by direct connection for unlimited sessions. The G1-D Flagship replaces the foundation with a differential drive wheeled base carrying LiDAR, depth cameras and collision detection, moving at up to 1.5 meters per second through up to six hour shifts at up to 80 kilograms, the version whose episodes include navigation, approach and the mobile manipulation the hardest datasets demand.
Technical Specifications
| Specification | G1-D Standard | G1-D Flagship |
|---|---|---|
| Base | Fixed | Wheeled, differential drive, 1.5 m/s |
| Height (column range) | 1260–1680 mm | 1260–1680 mm |
| Lifting Stroke | 500 mm at 1 mm precision | 500 mm at 1 mm precision |
| Maximum Operating Height | ~2 m | ~2 m |
| Weight | ~50 kg | Up to ~80 kg |
| Core DOF (excl. end effectors) | 17 | 19 |
| Arms | Dual 7 DOF, 3 kg payload, 450 mm reach | Dual 7 DOF, 3 kg payload, 450 mm reach |
| End Effectors | Gripper, 3 finger (± tactile), 5 finger hands | Same |
| Head Camera | Stereo HD, 3840×1200, FOV 115°×80°×125° | Same |
| Wrist Cameras | 1920×1080 each, FOV 130°×60°×160° | Same |
| Base Sensing | — | LiDAR, depth cameras, collision detection |
| Compute | NVIDIA Jetson Orin class, 100 TOPS + 8 core CPU | Same |
| Battery | 9,000 mAh quick release, ~2 h, or direct power | Up to 6 h |
| Connectivity | WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, OTA; 4 mic array, 5 W speaker | Same |
| Included | Handheld controller, visualization computer, full secondary development | Same |
| Warranty | 12 months | 12 months |
Figures follow the platform's published specifications; configurations follow Unitree's U series trim structure, with composition confirmed at quotation.
How does the G1-D differ from the bipedal G1?
They divide the G1 generation by physics. The bipedal G1 owns terrain: stairs, thresholds, outdoor ground and the locomotion research two legs exist for, at roughly two hours per battery. The G1-D owns throughput: six hour Flagship shifts or unlimited direct powered Standard sessions, no balance overhead, wrist level episode capture and a column that sweeps floor bins to two meter shelves with millimeter repeatability, the arithmetic that decides data operations. Programs increasingly run both, the biped for what only legs reach, the G1-D for the hours and episodes that train what both will become.
Technology
Cameras where the data lives
The G1-D's sensing is arranged like a film set for grasping: the wide stereo head camera establishes the scene while a high definition camera on each wrist records every manipulation from inside the action, the close perspective that separates training grade episodes from surveillance footage, synchronized into the capture pipeline the platform ships with.
The column as a workspace multiplier
The 500 millimeter lifting stroke, positioned to 1 millimeter, runs the machine's height from 1,260 to 1,680 millimeters and its reach to roughly 2 meters of working height, one station covering floor totes, bench tops and shelf faces, and one dataset covering the vertical diversity real deployments contain.
Hands for every episode type
Quick change ends span the two finger gripper, three finger dexterous hands with and without tactile sensing and a five finger dexterous hand from the ecosystem behind the robot hands field, so the same platform collects gripper era pick data and fingertip era manipulation data as research advances, with 3 kilogram per arm payloads carrying the working half of its double life.
A pipeline, not just a platform
The 100 TOPS Jetson Orin class module hosts onboard perception and deployed policies, while Unitree's software framework closes the loop the hardware was designed for: teleoperated capture, annotation, training management and policy deployment back to the machine, supported by the included controller and visualization computer, full secondary development, OTA updates and Unitree's accessories surround.
What is the Unitree G1-D used for?
- AI training data generation: sustained demonstration capture for VLA and imitation learning pipelines across research robotics, the platform's founding mission.
- Repetitive industrial and service tasks: real manipulation work across industrial and service environments, the six hour shifts wheels make economical.
- Warehouse automation: tote, sorting and station work at the warehouse humanoid frontier, floor to shelf reach from the column.
- Retail and consumer settings: vision guided assistance and stocking adjacent tasks across retail robotics, the public facing half of its deployment range.
- Education and development: educational programs teaching the collect, train, deploy cycle on the instrument built for it, with the commercial tier's demonstrations beside them.
Pricing and Availability
The Unitree G1-D is available for purchase worldwide in Standard and Flagship versions across their configuration trims, from single stations to capture fleet programs, alongside the G1 family, the wheeled humanoid category and the full Unitree lineup on Robots International. Unitree G1-D price and cost vary by version, end effector selection and destination, so buyers seeking the G1-D for sale should request a current quotation for their requirements. Purchasing inquiries, specification sheets and availability details for those looking to buy the Unitree G1-D can be found on this page.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Unitree G1-D?
The G1-D is Unitree's first wheeled humanoid, launched in November 2025: dual 7 degree of freedom arms with 3 kilogram payloads on a millimeter precise lifting column spanning 1,260 to 1,680 millimeters, offered as a fixed base Standard and a LiDAR navigating Flagship, purpose built for AI data collection, model training and real world task execution.
How does the Unitree G1-D work?
The G1-D captures its own work through a stereo head camera and wrist cameras on both arms, manipulates through quick change ends from grippers to five finger hands, positions its workspace through the 500 millimeter column, computes on a 100 TOPS Jetson Orin class module and, in Flagship form, navigates by LiDAR through six hour shifts, feeding Unitree's capture, annotation, training and deployment pipeline.
Why is the Unitree G1-D important?
It is the volume leader's answer to the field's binding constraint: training data. By removing bipedal balance overhead, tripling endurance and instrumenting every grasp, it industrializes demonstration collection while remaining a working robot, the specialized instrument the imitation learning era's dataset economics called for.
What are the benefits of the Unitree G1-D?
Key benefits include up to six hour Flagship endurance or unlimited direct powered Standard sessions, training grade episode capture from head and wrist cameras, a floor to two meter workspace at millimeter column precision, hands from grippers to tactile five finger configurations, onboard 100 TOPS computing and an integrated end to end data pipeline.
What is the difference between the G1-D Standard and Flagship?
The base: the Standard is stationary at roughly 50 kilograms with 17 core degrees of freedom, powered by battery or continuous direct connection, while the Flagship adds the differential drive wheeled base with LiDAR, depth and collision sensing, 19 core degrees of freedom, 1.5 meter per second movement and up to six hours of mobile operation at up to 80 kilograms.
How does the G1-D compare to the bipedal G1?
By mission: the bipedal G1 serves locomotion research, terrain and the field's standard research work at about two hours per battery, while the G1-D trades legs for endurance, stability and instrumented capture, the superior platform for data generation and sustained station work, with many programs deploying both.
Where can I buy the Unitree G1-D and what does it cost?
The G1-D is for sale through Robots International, serving markets worldwide with delivery, customs clearance and support. Because cost varies by version and configuration, buyers should request a tailored quotation. Full purchasing details are available on this page.
Summary
The Unitree G1-D is what happens when a humanoid stops paying the balance tax: six hour shifts instead of two, computation spent on grasping instead of standing, and a camera at every wrist turning each working hour into training data for the machines that come next. Fixed or rolling, gripper handed or five fingered, floor bin to top shelf on a millimeter column, it is Unitree's first wheeled humanoid and its clearest statement about where embodied AI's bottleneck lies, in the episodes, and in the hours that produce them. As the purpose built engine of the data era, the Unitree G1-D stands as the definitive reference point of its category.
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