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AEON vs Unitree H2 in 2026

Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.

Key differences

  • AEON has more verified real-world deployments (1 vs 0).
  • AEON is at the pilot stage; Unitree H2 at the research stage.
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ManufacturerHexagonUnitree Robotics
Form factorhumanoidhumanoid
Maturitypilotresearch
Autonomy—◐ not independently verified
Availabilityinternal-onlyenterpriseshipping-nowshipping
PriceNot announced$29,900 (actual sale price)
Capability claims—
  • Picks and packs (demo-only, demonstrated-once)
Brain
Verified deployments1BMW Group Plant Leipzig0
Privacy practices——
Sources on file69

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 H2

The Unitree H2 (from Unitree Robotics, Hangzhou) is a full-size humanoid, the successor to the H1, and one of the rare Chinese humanoids with a verified, openly-published consumer price: $29,900 (China-direct, ex-customs). It has 31 degrees of freedom (up from the H1's 27): a new 3-DoF waist, 7-DoF arms, a quasi-serial leg and foot redesign, and a bio-inspired animated face new to the H-series. It is about 1.82 meters and 70 kilograms with battery, with a roughly 3-hour battery, Intel Core i5/i7 base compute (an EDU variant offers NVIDIA Jetson), and a walking speed under 2 meters per second, down from the H1's roughly 3.3, trading speed for dexterity. DEPLOY records it at commercial maturity (for-sale with a published price), not production (no fleet-scale deployment). A critical cap-flag: the H2's marquee demos (dance, boxing, gala performances) are choreographed or teleoperated (via a control rig or Apple Vision Pro), not verified-autonomous; autonomy is the goal, not the present state. The $29,900 is a China-direct ex-customs price, not a US landed price, and the '2070 TOPS' figure is the optional EDU Jetson, not the base unit.

Common questions

What is the difference between AEON and Unitree H2?
AEON and Unitree H2 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.
Is AEON or Unitree H2 more autonomous?
On the DEPLOY registry, neither AEON nor Unitree H2 has capabilities independently verified as fully autonomous yet; their recorded capabilities are teleoperated-assisted, demonstrated, or vendor-claimed. See the table for each capability's verification status.
Which has more verified deployments, AEON or Unitree H2?
AEON has more verified deployments (1) on the DEPLOY registry than Unitree H2 (0). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

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