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24 alternatives to Unitree R1

Ultra-lightweight humanoid robot starting at $5900

The Unitree R1 is an ultra-lightweight humanoid robot designed for education, research, and industrial applications. It features advanced power systems, flexible joints, and a modular design that allows customization.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Asimov 1▲123

    The most customizable humanoid robot you can buy

    2d ago · menlo.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hello, we're Max and Byran from MUREX Robotics, a high school robotics team from Exeter, New Hampshire. We are super proud to have made this open source piece of technology! It is only 6.9 dollars (actually!) from JLCPCB :) I hope you like it. You can find us at [email protected] and [email protected] as well if you have any questions. We will be putting a small run of these boards for sale somewhere (we have <25 units of stock), probably for $10+shipping. Let us know if you're interested in more! Board files for everything we make is here:…

    2024 · docs.murexrobotics.com · its alternatives →

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    NEO Gamma▲291

    Your humanoid assistant and companion for home.

    2025 · 1x.tech · its alternatives →

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    The $5 computer

    2015 · raspberrypi.com · its alternatives →

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    A cost-effective robot arm for your automation

    2021 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Some early results and next steps in adapting DeepMind's Genie world model for creating the music player of my dreams.

    2025 · matthieulc.com · its alternatives →

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    Build Your Own Humanoid Robot

    2025 · toddlerbot.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Sowbot is an open-hardware agricultural robot designed to close the "prototype gap" that kills most agri-robotics startups and research projects — the 18+ months spent on drivers, networking, safety watchdogs, and UI before you can even start on the thing you actually care about. The hardware is built around a stackable 10×10cm compute module with two ARM Cortex-A55 SBCs — one for ROS 2 navigation&#x2F;EKF localisation, one dedicated to vision&#x2F;YOLO inference — connected via a single ethernet cable. Centimetre-level positioning via dual RTK GNSS, CAN bus for field comms, and real-time…

    Feb 2026 · sowbot.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    Smaller, better, and cheaper: $20

    2014 · raspberrypi.org · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m Ben, founder of K-Scale Labs (YC W24). Last year, I wanted to buy a humanoid robot that I could hack on, but the few options for sale were either too expensive, proprietary, or had a limited SDK. We set out to build an affordable humanoid robot using off-the-shelf components that can be built and shipped today, capable of running modern machine learning models, and make it completely open-source for developers like me. Today, we’re releasing our reinforcement learning library and sim2real pipeline for people who want to train policies for humanoid robots. If you have a computer,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An robot to teach kids how to code by DJI

    2019 · dji.com · its alternatives →

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    Alexa-powered humanoid robot

    2017 · ubtrobot.com · its alternatives →

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    An emotionally aware, humanoid robot

    2015 · maxtronics.com · its alternatives →

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    A nimble robot that can handle objects & climbs stairs

    2019 · bostondynamics.com · its alternatives →

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    Introducing Stack-chan, an open-source hardware robot designed with Fusion360 and Kicad that is easy to assemble and customize. With just 6 screws, you can easily put together the robot and add your own features using JavaScript with the Moddable SDK. Stack-chan is completely open-source and the design files, firmware and software are all available on GitHub repository (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;meganetaaan&#x2F;stack-chan) . Give it a try and customize it to your needs. We'd love to see what you create and hear your feedback on this open-source project.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This project will show you how to build the BricKuber, a Raspberry Pi Rubiks Cube Solving Robot with with BrickPi and the Raspberry Pi.

    2017 · dexterindustries.com · its alternatives →

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    Cascadeur▲285

    Animate with autoposing, autophysics and secondary motion

    2023 · cascadeur.com · its alternatives →

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    Helix▲140

    Bring humanoid robots to life with language and vision

    2025 · figure.ai · its alternatives →

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    A galactic realm for robotics and coding

    2025 · nextaisense.com · its alternatives →

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    A new open-source robot for your desk

    2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →

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    From the post: Blossom is an open-source robot platform for human-robot interaction (HRI) research that I developed during my PhD. I’ve used Blossom for research in design, machine learning, and telepresence; others have made Blossoms for their own research purposes. I have continued working on “rebuilding” the entire platform: I redesigned the inner frame as a model kit, complete with Gunpla-inspired runners and instructions, and refactored the codebase as r0b0, a Python library for communicating between hardware peripherals and software applications. In preparation to present Blossom at…

    2024 · msgtn.xyz · its alternatives →

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    BotBot▲77

    The open-source brain for any legged robot

    Feb 2026 · botbot.bot · its alternatives →

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    Powers faster, efficient reasoning for long-running agents

    Jun 2026 · developer.nvidia.com · its alternatives →

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    A robot that grows with your child.

    2016 · meetphoton.com · its alternatives →

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