Buying guide
AEON vs Unitree H1 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- AEON is at the pilot stage; Unitree H1 at the research stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Hexagon | Unitree Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | pilot | research |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | waitlistwaitlist |
| Price | Not announced | $90,000-$128,900 (manufacturer target) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
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| Verified deployments | 1BMW Group | 1Carnegie Mellon University |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 5 | 14 |
Editorial summaries
AEON
Hexagon's AEON is an industrial humanoid robot built for factory work such as assembly lines and high-voltage EV-battery manufacturing, developed with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and the Swiss actuator maker maxon. It carries 22 sensors and self-swapping batteries (about 23 seconds) for around-the-clock operation, with a walking speed near 2.5 meters per second. DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with one verified deployment, at BMW Group Plant Leipzig: the honest counterpoint to aggregator 'humanoids are working in factories at scale' framing, this is a verified pilot, not commercial-at-scale. As industrial equipment sold to manufacturers, it has no consumer price.
Unitree H1
The Unitree H1 is Unitree's higher-end research and developer humanoid (the standard H1 and the upgraded H1-2 with 7-DoF arms). Unitree lists it from about $90,000 on a contact-sales basis, up to about $128,900 for the H1-2. It is research and developer hardware, not a consumer-home product.
Common questions
- What is the difference between AEON and Unitree H1?
- AEON and Unitree H1 are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
- Which has more verified deployments, AEON or Unitree H1?
- AEON and Unitree H1 each have 1 verified deployment on the DEPLOY registry (confirmed at named sites with primary sources).
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