{"id":185663,"date":"2024-03-21T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/video-unitree-h1-is-first-humanoid-to-nail-a-backflip-without-hydraulics"},"modified":"2024-03-21T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:33:01","slug":"video-unitree-h1-is-first-humanoid-to-nail-a-backflip-without-hydraulics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/video-unitree-h1-is-first-humanoid-to-nail-a-backflip-without-hydraulics","title":{"rendered":"Video: Unitree H1 is first humanoid to nail a backflip without hydraulics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V1LyWsiTgms?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After setting a new <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/robotics\/unitree-h1-humanoid-robot-walking-speed-record\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">world speed record<\/a> for humanoid robots earlier this month, China\u2019s Unitree is now claiming another. Its latest H1 bipedal takes the title for first to perform a standing backflip without the use of hydraulics.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, humanoids like Boston Dynamics\u2019 Atlas have been <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/atlas-robot-backflip\/52234\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">nailing backflips<\/a> for a few years now but they make use of heavy, potentially leaky hydraulics to launch into the air, somersault backwards and then land on both feet.<\/p>\n<p>Impressively, Unitree\u2019s H1 relies on in-house M107 electric joint motors only, each of which boasts 360 Nm (265.5 lb.ft) of peak torque and can also be found on the company\u2019s <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/robotics\/unitree-b2-quadruped-robot\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">B2 quadruped<\/a>. Each leg has three degrees of freedom at the hip plus one at the knee and another at the ankle, and all cabling is routed internally for snag-free clean lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After setting a new world speed record for humanoid robots earlier this month, China\u2019s Unitree is now claiming another. Its latest H1 bipedal takes the title for first to perform a standing backflip without the use of hydraulics. Yes, humanoids like Boston Dynamics\u2019 Atlas have been nailing backflips for a few years now but they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}