I’m traveling to Hanover, Germany, on a sunny spring morning to see a robot.
I have been asked to attend the Hannover Messe, one of the biggest industrial trade fairs in the world, to view the G1, a humanoid robot constructed by the Chinese company Unitree.
G1 is smaller and less expensive than other humanoid robots available on the market, standing at around 4’3″ (130 cm). Its agility and range of motion are so fluid that films of it engaging in martial arts and dance routines have gone viral.
Pedro Zheng, the Unitree sales manager, is operating the G1 remotely today.
Customers need to program each G1 for independent operations, he explains.
