China’s Robot Juggernaut Unitree Debuts a $650,000 Personal Gundam

Screenshot from the video: Unitree Unveils: GD01, A Manned Transformable Mecha, from $650,000 – Unitree Robotics. Article by Tom Hawking. Gizmodo – May 12, 2026.

While the West continues its love affair with the money to be made from getting generative AI to do things for which it is manifestly unsuited, on the other side of the Pacific, it’s all robot everything. Not to be put in the shade by Honor and their marathon robot, Chinese robot company Unitree—you may remember them from such other automatons as the Lunar New Year kung fu dervishes and, um, the Jackass robot—have upped the ante with their latest creation, which is a freaking giant half-ton transforming mech suit. […]

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Video: Unitree Unveils: GD01, A Manned Transformable Mecha, from $650,000 – Unitree Robotics

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