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FILE: A visitor reaches out to shake hands with a Unitree G1 robot at the Zhongguancun Forum at the Zhongguancun International

Video. China’s Unitree unveils transformable humanoid ‘mecha’ robot with cockpit

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Chinese robotics company Unitree Robotics unveiled a transformable humanoid “mecha” robot featuring a cockpit for a human pilot.

Unitree Society has unveiled the GD01, a piloted, transformable 'mecha' that carries a human in a dedicated cockpit and switches between bipedal and four-legged modes depending on the terrain.

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Footage released by the company showed founder Wang Xingxing climbing into the robot’s cockpit before the machine walked, transformed and performed movement demonstrations.

The piloted robot suit can switch from a humanoid form into a quadrupedal walking mode. Unitree said the GD01 is its first manned transformable robot platform.

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