THIS $13,500 ROBOT JUST OUT-EARNED YOUR $46,680 LABORER WITHOUT MOVING ONE SHOVEL OF DIRT.
a Unitree G1 carries 2-3kg per arm. a shovelful of wet clay is 7.
everyone is watching the ballet. watch the shovel.
one robot stands in the trench with the shovel raised over its head. a second turns it from behind like the key of a music box. the third spins the dancer. nobody digs.
if you've ever cut footings by hand you know the number that matters isn't 7kg. it's 400 - the swings before lunch. by hour four your grip quits before your back does.
the honest catch: the crew is fictional. staged site, staged profit, no Jake in Texas.
that's not the weak part. the $13,500 G1 ships with no SDK - you cannot program it at all. the one you can starts at $43,900. three of those is $131,700 before anyone breaks ground.
so the $20,000 was never coming out of the trench. it came out of the camera.
your competition isn't the robot that digs. it's the robot that films.