World's First Side-Flipping Humanoid Robot

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World's First Side-Flipping Humanoid Robot

About this demo

One year after the H1 pioneered the standing backflip, the G1 lands a standing side flip. A lateral rotation is substantially harder to stabilise than a backflip because the recovery base of support collapses sideways.

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Watch the teardown

See the hardware underneath this behaviour — actuator internals, gearing and thermal design.

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