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 Robotics press imageThe verdict
A list price with no buy button. Unitree has quoted $29,900 for a full-size machine that would undercut everything at that scale, and that is worth watching, but you cannot order it. Treat the number as a statement of intent.
- Buy it if
- Nobody yet. Watch it.
- Skip it if
- You need hardware this year.
In its favour
- Aggressive price for a full-size humanoid
- Unitree has a habit of shipping
Against it
- No order path
- Reported prices vary wildly by source
- Specifications still moving
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
- Limited production
- Category
- general purpose
- First revealed
- 20 October 2025
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 180 cm
- Weight
- 70 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 31
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- unknown
Where it stands
Revealed October 2025 as a full-size successor to H1 with a human-like face option; performed at the 2026 Spring Festival Gala; pricing on request.
What stands out
- 31 DOF full-size platform
- Human-like face option marketed as Bionic Companion
Autonomy, observed
Dance, martial arts and catwalk demos in Unitree videos; independent verification limited to trade show appearances.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: optional dexterous hands
Price and volume
No public list price at time of writing.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Unitree H2 sits at #49 of 107 with 39 points: deployment 14/50, autonomy 10/30, availability 15/20. See that method.
Milestones.
Unitree shows H2, a 180 cm humanoid with a human proportioned body
Unitree teases H2, a 70 kg humanoid with 31 degrees of freedom and a more anthropomorphic shape than H1, in a dance video. The company also begins preparing a domestic stock listing.
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 much does a humanoid robot cost in 2026?
Thirty-five humanoids in our record carry a price, from $299 to $250,000 with a median of $15,000. What the money buys changes completely at each band, and so does how much you should trust the number.
The uncanny valley, and why the newest humanoids have no face
Masahiro Mori warned in 1970 that a nearly human face repels. Of the 182 humanoids in our record, four describe one, and none of the four does physical work for a customer.
What humanoid robots can actually do in 2026
Of 182 humanoid robots on record, 117 have a human in the loop, 33 have ever worked at a customer site and none has a verified fleet count. Here is what that leaves.
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
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 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 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 H2 product pageUnitree
Price sources
- 01Humanoid robots for sale: 2026 guideThere's A Robot For That · 2026-08-15
- 02Humanoid robot prices, 2026 guideRobotSourced · 2026-07-31
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