Rohotic
Humanoid Robotics
Robots you can talk to, shaped like people, at a price ordinary people can pay. From Hyderabad.
Nobody wins this from the top
The companies chasing the most capable humanoid are all building adult sized, and their prices show it. The flagship models cost a hundred thousand dollars. Even the more sensible ones cost around thirty thousand.
We think power is not the hard part any more. Price is. A robot that does most of the everyday work, at a price a normal business or family can actually pay, will end up in far more buildings than a perfect robot nobody can afford.
So the cost comes out of how the robot is made and where the parts come from. It does not come out of how well it is built, and it does not come out of how it looks.
Work people would rather not do
Lifting, fetching, sorting and tidying. Jobs that are dull, repetitive, sometimes unsafe, and increasingly hard to hire for.
Warehouses
Picking and sorting stock that changes every week. The kind of work that defeats normal machines because nothing stays in the same place.
Factories
Loading machines and moving parts on short production runs, where reprogramming a fixed robot costs more than doing it by hand.
Homes
Everyday jobs nobody wants to do. This is where we are going, and it is the reason the price matters so much.
Say it, and it gets done
Almost every robot working today follows a fixed routine. Move the object two inches and it fails. The bar we have set is a machine that copes with things it has never seen, in rooms it has never been in, with nobody going back to change the program.
It is shaped like a person on purpose. Doors, shelves, stairs, tools and handles were all designed around human bodies, and people instinctively know how to stand next to something that moves like they do.
Plain speech in, action out
No training mode. No code written per object. If you have to teach it, we have failed at the only thing that matters.
Objects it has never seen
Look at a table, find an apple and an orange nobody showed it, work out what to do. Anything less is a machine following a script.
Five fingers, both hands
Not industrial claws. Every tool, handle and door in the world is shaped for fingers, so the hands are shaped for the world.
Two legs. Not wheels.
Wheels are cheaper, stronger and far easier to balance. We said no. If it is called a humanoid it walks like one.
Nothing ships that can hurt a person
Safety is a design rule from the first drawing, not a layer added before launch. A robot that needs supervision is not finished.
All the thinking is onboard
No network in the control loop. Seeing, deciding and moving happen on the machine, so losing the internet changes nothing.
- Height
- 1.40 m
- Weight
- 45 kg
- Knee and hip
- 222 Nm
- Lift per arm
- 11.7 kg
- Moving joints
- 29
- Battery
- 600 Wh
These are targets
Not results from a finished machine. Strength figures come from the published specifications of the parts we have chosen. Weight, lift and running time are worked out from those parts and the robot's proportions, and still need proving on real hardware. The price is a target too: under $20,000 is what a robot costs to build once we are building them in numbers. The first few cost us more than that, the way first units always do.
What the numbers mean
1.40 m is about the height of a ten year old. 11.7 kg in one hand is a filled cabin suitcase. The proportions follow standard human body ratios, so the arms, legs and torso relate to each other the way yours do. It is designed to walk and to carry, not to run or jump, and we would rather tell you that than let you find out.
| What it means | Rohotic in design | Unitree G1 on sale | Unitree H2 on sale | 1X NEO pre-order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price What you would pay to own one | Under $20,000 | $13,500 | $29,900 | $20,000 |
| Lift per arm Weight one arm holds straight out in front | 11.7 kg all day | 2 kg, or 3 kg upgraded | 7 kg all day, 15 kg briefly | 8.2 kg |
| Arm length Shoulder to wrist. Shorter arms lift more, longer arms reach further | 465 mm | About 450 mm | 690 mm | Not published |
| Leg joint strength Peak push available at the knee | 222 Nm | 90 Nm, or 120 Nm upgraded | 360 Nm | Not published |
| Height How tall it stands | 1.40 m | 1.32 m | 1.82 m | 1.68 m |
| Weight What the robot itself weighs | 45 kg | 35 kg | 70 kg | 29.9 kg |
| Time on one charge How long it works before recharging | 2.2 h | 2 h | 3 h | 4 h |
| Hands as standard What it grips with, out of the box | Five fingers, both | None, hands cost extra | None, hands cost extra | Five fingers, both |
| Built for Who it is sold to | Industrial work, then homes | Developers | Industrial work | Homes in the US |
| Sold in Where you can buy one | Not on sale | Worldwide | Worldwide | United States |
Three machines, three jobs
The G1 is a research platform sold to developers and you can order one today. The H2 is a full-size industrial robot with a published price, ordered through the maker or its regional partners. NEO is the first humanoid really sold for the home, taken as a pre-order with deliveries starting in the United States. Every figure in their columns is the maker's own published number. Ours are targets. The robot is in design.
How lift is measured
With the arm straight out and held there, which is the hardest case. Every machine here carries more held close to the body. Unitree publish an all-day figure and a brief-burst figure for the H2, so both are shown. For the G1 and NEO the makers publish a single number without saying which, so it is quoted as printed. Ours is an all-day rating.
The G1 comes in two grades
The $13,500 price is the base G1. Its arm and knee figures are the lower of the two, and the higher figures you see quoted elsewhere belong to the developer version, which costs several times more. Both are shown here so the price and the strength in that column belong to the same machine. Its degrees of freedom and hands work the same way, which is why hands are listed as an extra.
Why arm length is in the table
Lifting is torque divided by distance, so a shorter arm lifts more and reaches less far. Ours is 225 mm shorter than the H2's, measured the same way, shoulder to wrist. That is most of why the target is higher per arm than a robot weighing half as much again. It is a deliberate trade, not a free win. Unitree label the G1's arm figure differently and give it as about 450 mm, so treat that one as approximate rather than measured to the same line.
Where we do not lead
The H2 has stronger legs, and in a short burst it lifts 15 kg on one arm against our 11.7 kg, so it wins that contest outright. NEO runs almost twice as long on a charge. Both stand taller. Those are real advantages and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we are going after is the most weight held out at arm's length all day, in a smaller machine, at a price that puts it within reach.
What is missing, and why
The famous humanoids you might expect to see here are absent because they are not on sale. Nothing has gone to an outside customer and no price has been announced, so there is no figure we would trust enough to put in a column. Rows are missing too. Walking speed, how much it carries held against the chest, and safety certification are not settled on our side yet. NEO's knee strength and arm length are unpublished, and neither Unitree robot gives a figure for carrying against the body. Where a number is missing here, it is missing rather than estimated.
- Unitree R1
- From $4,900
- Unitree G1
- $13,500
- 1X NEO
- $20,000
- AgiBot X2
- $24,240
- Unitree H2
- $29,900
- Unitree H2 Plus
- $100,000
Every figure is the maker’s own price, from the maker’s own store. Most of these are research, developer or performance machines rather than robots sold to do a day’s work. The ones built for real work start around $20,000 and the flagships reach six figures. Getting genuine working strength to the bottom of that range is a harder and more useful problem than adding another few kilograms of lifting power. Models sold only by quotation are left out, because a price we cannot show you is not a price.
Millions of them. Factories, warehouses, homes.
Homes are the destination. Businesses come first, because they pay sooner and their orders bring the cost of each robot down until a family can afford one.
What we actually want to build is a robot that is good company as well as useful help. Something closer to a person than to a machine.
- First
- Make it work. A walking robot that takes a spoken instruction and puts away ten objects it has never seen before. We will publish the results whether they are good or bad.
- Then
- Sell it to businesses. Warehouses and small factories, first in India and then wherever they will have us. Businesses pay sooner, they can live with an imperfect first product, and their orders bring the cost of building each robot down.
- Finally
- Get it into homes. Full human likeness, gesture and companionship, at a price an ordinary family can pay. Everything before this step exists to pay for this step.
The home robot depends on parts continuing to fall in price, which they have been doing for several years. It is a target measured in years, and we would rather say that plainly than suggest it is around the corner.
Built here for a reason
Machining, printing, assembly and engineering cost a fraction here of what they cost in the United States or Europe. That is the only reason a sub $20,000 humanoid is reachable at all. The saving goes into the price of the robot, not into what the robot is. How well it is made and how it looks are brand decisions, and those are not for trading.
It costs less to build here
An engineer, a machine shop and an assembly bench all cost a fraction here of what they cost in the United States or Europe. Parts and assembly stay in India. This is the whole reason an affordable humanoid comes out of Hyderabad at all.
The market is next door
Warehouses and factories sit a short drive from us, not a shipping container away. Close enough that fixing something is an afternoon rather than a quarter.
Built here, sold everywhere
India is where the robot is made, not where it stops. The cost advantage travels with the product, which is what puts the same machine in a German factory and a Japanese home.
About Rohotic
Rohotic is a humanoid robotics company in Hyderabad, India. The robot is designed to sell worldwide. The specification is settled, the parts are chosen and priced, and the costs are worked out. The mechanical design is the next piece of work.
To be clear, nothing here is on sale yet. We would rather show you hardware moving than talk about what it might do one day, and when there is hardware to show, it will be on this page.
- Founded
- 2026
- HQ
- Hyderabad
- Sector
- Humanoids
- Built for
- Worldwide
- First robot
- In design
- Target price
- Sub $20K
The first hire is a mechanical engineer
Joints, gearboxes, structure, power and wiring, in or near Hyderabad. The software is mine to write. The body is not, and that is the one gap between a specification and a machine that stands up.
Final year students count. If you would rather put your hands on a walking robot than do another course project, write to us. Every message gets read.
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Hyderabad, India