A 123 cm, 27 kg humanoid robot. On AliExpress. Starting at $4,900. Unitree just turned consumer humanoid robotics from science fiction into an add-to-cart moment. The R1 packs 24–26 degrees of freedom depending on variant, an NVIDIA Jetson Orin (up to 100 TOPS on EDU models), binocular vision, a 4-mic array, and 3D depth sensing.… Continue reading

SwitchBot — the company behind those $30 smart curtain motors — showed up at CES 2026 with a wheeled humanoid robot. The Onero H1 stands 1.3m tall, has 22 degrees of freedom in its dual arms, and runs OmniSense VLA on-device — fusing visual, depth, and tactile data from Intel RealSense cameras. It folds laundry,… Continue reading