Buying guide
Digit vs Unitree H1 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Digit has more verified real-world deployments (8 vs 1).
- Digit is at the commercial stage; Unitree H1 at the research stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Agility Robotics | Unitree Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | commercial | research |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | waitlistwaitlist |
| Price | Not announced | $90,000-$128,900 (manufacturer target) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
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| Verified deployments | 8 | 1Carnegie Mellon University |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 38 | 14 |
Editorial summaries
Digit
Digit is the cohort's commercial verification anchor: the most-verified-hours humanoid in the registry, with Agility's GXO Flowery Branch deployment doing the load-bearing work. The maker-facility rule applies in reverse here. GXO operates Digit on customer-paid freight inside GXO's own warehouses, which is the commercial-deployment shape that internal-facility pilots from Tesla, 1X, and others do not yet have. Agility describes Digit's operational envelope as autonomous mobile manipulation in structured logistics; the verification anchor is what operators document at the customer site, not Agility's spec sheet.
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 Digit and Unitree H1?
- Digit 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, Digit or Unitree H1?
- Digit has more verified deployments (8) on the DEPLOY registry than Unitree H1 (1). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
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