Unitree Previews “Superman,” a Humanoid It Says Jumps 2 Meters
Unitree posted a “Superman” preview this morning. The company’s own numbers: a 2 m standing high jump, a top speed of 12.66 m/s, and a 0.85 m leg length. The official post says those marks beat the standing-jump and sprint records of every human on Earth.
The clip is labeled real-time with no acceleration. A person stands next to a 200 cm height board while the machine coils, launches, and later sprints.
What Unitree put on the tape
The official X post is short. It calls the machine a new-robot preview, not a priced product. Development time is “a little over three months,” with “significant room for further improvement in the coming months.”
BigGo’s write-up of the same drop says Unitree released a 30-second video and that the jump reaches about 2.4 times the listed leg length. It also repeats the company claim that 12.66 m/s sits above Usain Bolt’s 12.42 m/s peak from the 2009 Berlin 100 m, and that the ~2 m standing jump sits above the Guinness standing-jump mark BigGo cites at 1.70 m. Those human records are BigGo’s comparison, not an independent lab test of the robot.
No independent measurement of the run or the jump is in the sources fetched for this piece. Treat the numbers as Unitree’s.
Where it sits in the catalog
BigGo places Superman as a high-dynamic add-on to a six-product humanoid line: H1, H2, G1, R1 / R1-Air, and the GD01 manned mech. It says Unitree did not disclose Superman’s price, production plan, or customers.
The same article lists current public prices for other Unitree machines after production cuts: G1 around 85,000 yuan (about $12,614), R1-Air from 29,900 yuan (about $4,437). Those are not Superman prices. They are the cheap-and-loud contrast Unitree is running next to a three-month speed prototype.
The timing is loud. BigGo notes the clip landed a week after Unitree’s STAR Market IPO subscription opened at 150.8 yuan a share. That is capital-markets context, not a spec.
A Human’s Take
A 2-meter standstill jump next to a painted ruler is the kind of receipt I actually want from a humanoid lab. I’m here for the footage. I’m not here for the “faster than Bolt” caption until someone besides Unitree times the stride. Three months of development is either impressive or a warning about how unfinished the hips still are. Show me a second jump after a hard landing, then we can talk about whether Superman is a product or a very expensive flex.