aid: unitree name: Unitree Robotics description: >- Unitree Robotics is a Hangzhou, China-based high-performance robot manufacturer founded in 2016 by Wang Xingxing. The company is a global pioneer in the commercial quadruped (robot dog) market and has expanded into bipedal humanoid robots. Its product line includes the Go1, Go2, and Go2-W quadrupeds for consumers, education, and research; the industrial-grade B1 and B2 quadrupeds for inspection, patrol, and logistics; the H1 full-size humanoid; the G1 humanoid for research and developer experimentation; the R1 humanoid; and the Z1 robotic arm. Unitree also produces in-house components including the L1/L2 LiDAR, hand-grade actuators, and dexterous hands (Dex1-1). Unitree's developer surface is SDK-centric — there is no public REST or gRPC cloud API. Robot control happens on-device over DDS (Data Distribution Service) via the unitree_sdk2 (C++) and unitree_sdk2_python libraries, with high-level message bindings published as unitree_ros and unitree_ros2. The company maintains an active GitHub presence at github.com/unitreerobotics with 46+ public repositories covering SDKs, ROS packages, MuJoCo and Isaac Lab simulation environments, reinforcement learning frameworks (unitree_rl_gym, unitree_rl_lab), teleoperation tooling (xr_teleoperate, kinect_teleoperate, televuer), imitation learning (unitree_lerobot), a vision-language-action model (unifolm-vla), and a Unitree App Store template repo. Documentation lives at support.unitree.com/home/en/developer. Unitree's revenue model is direct robot hardware sales via shop.unitree.com and partner distribution; there is no metered API service tier. tags: - Robotics - Quadruped Robots - Humanoid Robots - Robot Dog - Embodied AI - Reinforcement Learning - ROS - Teleoperation - Simulation - SDK - DDS - LiDAR - Dexterous Manipulation - Vision Language Action - Hardware - Industrial Inspection - Education - Research url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unitree/refs/heads/main/apis.yml image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg type: Index position: Provider access: 3rd-Party kind: contract x-tier: 2 x-tier-reason: >- Tier 2 — SDK-only developer surface. Unitree publishes mature, BSD/MIT licensed C++ and Python SDKs (unitree_sdk2, unitree_sdk2_python, unitree_legged_sdk, z1_sdk, unilidar_sdk2), full ROS/ROS2 bindings, simulation environments (MuJoCo, Isaac Lab, PyBullet), and RL/IL/VLA reference stacks. There is no public REST, GraphQL, or gRPC cloud API — developers communicate with robots locally over DDS. Documentation portal exists at support.unitree.com/home/en/developer. 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Go2-W — wheeled-leg variant of Go2 - B2 — industrial-grade quadruped for inspection, patrol, and payload carry - H1 — full-size bipedal humanoid robot - G1 — research/developer humanoid with dexterous hands - R1 — humanoid robot platform - Z1 — six-DOF robotic arm - L1/L2 LiDAR — Unitree-designed solid-state and rotating LiDAR sensors - Dex1-1 — Unitree dexterous hand - unitree_sdk2 — C++ SDK for current-generation robots over DDS - unitree_sdk2_python — Python bindings for unitree_sdk2 - unitree_legged_sdk — legacy SDK for Go1/B1/AlienGo/A1 quadrupeds - unitree_ros and unitree_ros2 — official ROS1/ROS2 message and launch packages - unitree_mujoco — MuJoCo simulation environment - unitree_sim_isaaclab — Isaac Lab simulation environment - unitree_rl_gym, unitree_rl_lab, unitree_rl_mjlab — RL training stacks - unitree_lerobot — LeRobot fork for G1 dual-arm imitation learning - unifolm-vla — Vision-Language-Action model for Unitree robots - xr_teleoperate, kinect_teleoperate, televuer — teleoperation pipelines - Unitree App Store + unitree-app-templates for on-robot app distribution - DDS-based on-device communication (no public cloud API) - 46+ public repositories under github.com/unitreerobotics with active commits sources: - https://www.unitree.com - https://github.com/unitreerobotics - https://support.unitree.com/home/en/developer updated: '2026-05-24' - url: https://www.unitree.com/news type: Blog created: '2026-05-24' modified: '2026-05-24' specificationVersion: '0.20' maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: info@apievangelist.com X: apievangelist url: https://apievangelist.com