So Atlas can lift 7x the capacity. Even Digit, the tote-consolidating robot, can do 35lbs.

Unitree's demos are a lot of fun, and the antics of releasing the G1 to the public has certainly captured people's attention, but a "working" robot won't look, act, or develop from the G1 or even H2.

Unitree has plenty other industrial robots. https://www.unitree.com/ -> Click Robots

I wasn't trying to say that Unitree is somehow deficient. I'm sure they could build Atlas if they wanted.

My point was that BD could probably build a robot with the shown acrobatic capabilities, but they choose not to because their goal is to build robots that carry heavy loads for industrial applications.

They also wouldn't be getting any funding for doing such fun demos, even if they wanted to.

I don't need a robot to lift more than 15lbs in order to do all my maid work

Focussing on load capacity is missing the forest for the trees

The point is that a robot with higher load capacity is necessarily less agile. BD's target market is industrial so their robots are necessarily larger and less agile.

The fact that Unitree's robots appear so acrobatic reflects that they are likely on par with BD in terms of capabilities but have a different target market.