Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics began mass production of its G2 humanoid robot on April 30, the company confirmed in a statement issued Friday. The G2 platform, which the company unveiled at the Beijing World Robot Conference last August, will ship to industrial customers at a base unit price of 65,000 yuan (approximately $9,000), making it the lowest-priced commercially available bipedal humanoid in the global market.
The company's Hangzhou facility has a stated initial capacity of 1,200 units per month, scaling to 3,000 units per month by Q4 2026, according to founder and CEO Wang Xingxing. Three Foxconn-operated electronics assembly plants in Henan and Sichuan provinces have been confirmed as launch customers, with deployments expected to begin in July.
Specifications and capability
The G2 stands 132 centimetres tall and weighs 35 kilograms, the company said. It features 27 degrees of freedom across the body, including 6 in each arm and 5 in each leg, with a payload capacity of 5 kilograms per arm. The robot is powered by Unitree's proprietary AI control system and can operate continuously for approximately 4 hours on a single battery charge, with hot-swappable battery packs supporting 24-hour shift work.
Unitree said the G2 supports voice commands in Mandarin and English, vision-based object recognition trained on a 1.2 million image dataset, and a software development kit that allows integration with existing factory automation systems. The robot's gait control system, an evolution of the company's earlier H1 platform, allows it to traverse uneven surfaces and recover from external disturbances such as collisions or stumbles, according to a technical brief released by the company.
Market context
The G2 enters a Chinese humanoid robot market that, according to figures from the China Institute of Electronics, surpassed 8,400 commercial deployments in 2025. The competitive landscape includes Tesla's Optimus, currently in limited production at Tesla's Fremont facility with reported costs of approximately $30,000 per unit; Boston Dynamics' Atlas, which remains in research-only deployment; and Chinese competitors UBTech and Fourier Intelligence, both of which sell humanoid platforms in the $25,000–$40,000 range.
Unitree's pricing represents a 65–75% discount to the nearest competitor. Analysts at Morgan Stanley said in an April 28 client note that the G2 price point "fundamentally changes the unit economics of factory humanoid deployment in China," and forecast that Unitree could capture 35% of the Chinese industrial humanoid market by year-end.
Foxconn deployment plan
Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, confirmed in a separate statement that it will deploy approximately 800 G2 units across three Chinese facilities by the end of Q3 2026. The robots will be initially assigned to repetitive electronics-assembly tasks including cable routing, screw insertion, and component pick-and-place, the company said. Foxconn declined to disclose the total contract value but said the per-unit return-on-investment is expected within 14–16 months at the current Chinese minimum wage levels.
Export markets
Unitree said it has received pre-orders from customers in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Mexico, with the first international shipments scheduled for September. The company has not yet received export licensing for the United States, where U.S. Department of Commerce restrictions on Chinese AI hardware imports could affect commercial availability. Unitree's existing quadruped robot models, including the Go2 and B2 platforms, are sold through U.S. distributors but face elevated import scrutiny under regulations introduced in late 2024.
Wang said in remarks at a Hangzhou press event Friday that Unitree expects 2026 revenue to exceed 1.8 billion yuan, more than double the 2025 figure of 740 million yuan reported in the company's regulatory filings. The company is preparing for an A-share IPO on the Shanghai STAR Market, with the listing expected by Q1 2027 according to people familiar with the process.