Chinese robotics firm Unitree Robotics unveiled the GD01, which it described as
the world’s first “production-ready” transformable manned mecha for civilian
use, with a starting price of $650,000. The company said the roughly
500-kilogram vehicle can carry a human operator and switch between different
forms. The launch drew attention from Elon Musk, who responded to the
announcement on X with: “Cool.”