Five Unitree humanoid models. $4,290 to $90,000-plus. A 21-fold price spread inside a single company's lineup.

No Western humanoid is sold this way. Boston Dynamics Atlas is internally allocated to Hyundai factories and Google DeepMind. Tesla Optimus has no commercial product. Agility Digit ships under Robots-as-a-Service contracts. A grad student cannot buy any of these.

A grad student can buy a Unitree G1 for $13,500. The university procurement officer does not even need a meeting.

Unitree is not competing on price against Western humanoid makers. It is operating in a category none of them serves. The "price destroyer" framing is real. The deeper question is what the price destroyer becomes next.

Full Unitree analysis in my latest piece.