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Unitree Says This Giant Mecha Robot Can Be Yours For $650,000

China's Unitree has unveiled the GD01, a massive transforming mecha shown spider-walking, bending backwards, and tearing through cinder blocks in a dramatic promo video. While its popular G1 humanoids are limited to performing relatively simple actions autonomously, the GD01 seems to be built more for destruction, publicity, and aura farming than practical use. Unitree confirmed to WIRED this was not a publicity stunt but a real product you can buy—for $650,000.

Released on 05/13/2026

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[Narrator] Always wanted your own Mecha?

Got $650,000 to spare?

Hangzhou-based robotics company Unitree,

best known for its G1 Humanoids just revealed

its latest products.

A giant walking, crawling,

transforming, wall-smashing Mecha called the GDO1.

A promotional video set to thunderous rock

music shows founder and CEO Xingxing Wang with the Mecha

before climbing into its open air belly.

The video then cuts to the GDO1 smashing through a wall

of cinder blocks, seemingly without a pilot on board.

The red-limbed robot is also shown contorting itself

by bending backwards

and doing the spider walk from the exorcist.

Unitree confirmed to WIRED

that this is is not an elaborate prank,

but an actual product it's selling.

The company already makes the world's most

popular quadruped and humanoid robots,

and it's G1 humanoids frequently star

in social media clips dancing,

performing acrobatics, and doing kung fu.

Unitree's success partly comes down to its price.

Its cheapest humanoid robot costs around $15,000,

while some US made models can cost 10 times more.

Experts say the company's access

to China's huge hardware supply chain gives it a major cost

advantage and its robots are also easy for researchers

to train with AI.

The GDO1 seems built less for practical use

and more for destruction and publicity.

So forget a Ferrari or a Patek Philippe.

Next time you're in need of some street cred,

just smash your away into the office in a GDO1.