Unitree H1
H1 is Unitree's first full-size humanoid, revealed in August 2023. It set a walking speed of 3.3 m/s and performed the first standing backflip by a full-size electric humanoid in March 2024. Sixteen H1 units danced on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in January 2025.
Unitree Robotics press imageThe verdict
The full-size machine Unitree sells when the G1 is not enough. It is fast, it is strong, and at $90,000 it has moved out of the range where you click a button and into the range where you have a conversation with sales.
- Buy it if
- Labs that need full human scale and have the budget for it.
- Skip it if
- You are buying with a credit card.
In its favour
- Full human scale
- Very fast walking
- Established platform
Against it
- $90,000 and up
- Sales process, not a checkout
- Superseded in attention by the H2
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
Similar money, different machine.
- Status
- Commercial
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- August 2023
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 180 cm
- Weight
- 47 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 19
- Battery
- 0.864 kWh
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- 3.3 m/s
- Actuation
- electric (Unitree M107 joint motors, up to 360 Nm)
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Sold to research labs and developers since late 2023; superseded as Unitree's flagship by H1-2 and H2 but still listed for sale.
What stands out
- 3.3 m/s walking speed claimed as a full-size humanoid record
- Standing backflip without hydraulics, March 2024
- Danced on the 2025 CCTV Spring Festival Gala
Autonomy, observed
Walking, running and a standing backflip shown in Unitree videos (March 2024); locomotion is learned-policy autonomous, manipulation demos are mostly scripted or teleoperated.
Remote control and teleoperation via SDK; used for demos.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: none by default, optional dexterous hands
- Sensors: Livox Mid-360 3D LiDAR, Intel RealSense D435i depth camera
- Compute: Intel Core i7 class CPU plus optional Jetson Orin NX
- AI stack: reinforcement-learning locomotion policies, open SDK
Price and volume
Listed from about USD 90,000 (CNY 650,000) at launch.
Unitree has not published per-model unit numbers.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Unitree H1 sits at #28 of 107 with 44 points: deployment 14/50, autonomy 18/30, availability 12/20. See that method.
Where Unitree H1 works.
| Customer | Site | Sector | Task | Since | Status | Units | Autonomy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China Media Group (CCTV) | CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Beijing, China | entertainment | Synchronised folk dance with handkerchiefs alongside human dancers | Jan 2025 | ended | 16 | autonomous |
Milestones.
Unitree files for a listing on Shanghai's STAR Market
Unitree, after completing pre listing tutoring with CITIC Securities, files for an initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market. It is the first pure play humanoid maker to seek a public listing in China.
First World Humanoid Robot Games open in Beijing
Around 280 teams from 16 countries compete in the National Speed Skating Oval in athletics, football, dance and applied tasks such as medicine sorting and hotel cleaning. Unitree robots win most track events, including the 1500 m in 6 minutes 34 seconds, while frequent falls show the state of the art.
A Unitree H1 lunges toward spectators at a lantern festival in Tianjin
Video shows an H1 performing at a festival suddenly stumbling and jerking toward the crowd barrier before handlers pull it back. Organisers say a program failure was the cause; nobody is hurt, but the clip becomes the reference case for humanoid safety in crowds.
Sixteen Unitree H1 robots dance at China's Spring Festival Gala
Sixteen H1 humanoids perform a folk dance with human dancers, twirling handkerchiefs, on the CCTV New Year gala watched by hundreds of millions. The performance makes Unitree a household name in China.
Unitree unveils H1, its first full size humanoid
Quadruped maker Unitree announces H1, a 180 cm, 47 kg humanoid priced under 90,000 dollars, with its own high torque joint motors. H1 later sets a running speed record of 3.3 m/s for full size humanoids.
Deposits, lead times and warranties: reading a humanoid order sheet
Of 42 buy records, 2 publish a deposit, 1 a warranty, 1 a shipping cost and none a lead time in weeks. The order sheet for a humanoid is mostly blank, and the blanks are where the money goes.
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
How long does a humanoid robot actually run
22 of 182 humanoids on record quote a runtime. The claims run from 1 to 8 hours with a median of 4, and of the 44 machines you can order, 4 say anything at all.
Humanoid races, games and fights: what the competitions proved
Our record holds 11 competition events from 1997 to 2025 and 17 machines tied to them. Six can be ordered, three at a public price, and 13 of the 17 carry a teleoperation flag of yes or partial.
Open-source humanoids: what you can actually build
24 of the 182 humanoids on record call themselves open source. 15 publish hardware files and software, 3 name a licence, 12 can be ordered, and none of the four on preorder has any autonomy evidence yet.
Who is paying for humanoids: 69 funding rounds
Our funding record holds 69 entries. Take out the government funds, the acquisitions and the IPOs and $6.33 billion of disclosed private money remains. 37 percent of it went to companies with no robot on record.
Other robots by Unitree Robotics.
Unitree G1
G1 is Unitree's compact humanoid, announced in May 2024 at USD 16,000 and now listed at USD 13,500. Its low price and open SDK made it the default research and education humanoid worldwide. Read the configuration carefully: the standard machine does not support your own code, and the EDU version that does starts at USD 43,900.
Unitree H1-2
H1-2 is the second iteration of the full-size H1 line with 27 degrees of freedom (six per leg, seven per arm, one waist joint) and support for dexterous hands. It is mainly a research platform.
Unitree H2
H2 is Unitree's third full-size humanoid, revealed in October 2025 with 31 degrees of freedom, 180 cm height and 70 kg weight. It is positioned as a general-purpose and entertainment platform.
Unitree R1
R1 is Unitree's low-cost humanoid, launched in July 2025 at CNY 39,900. At roughly a third of the G1 price it pushed the entry price for a walking humanoid below USD 6,000.
Sources
- 01Unitree H1 product pageUnitree
- 02Unitree H1 (Wikipedia index)Wikipedia
Price sources
- 01Humanoid robot prices, 2026 guideRobotSourced · 2026-07-31
- 02How to buy a humanoid robot in 2026MeetHumanoid · 2026
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