What is the difference between Digit and Unitree H2?

Digit 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.

Which is cheaper, Digit or Unitree H2?

Unitree H2 has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Digit. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.

Is Digit or Unitree H2 more autonomous?

Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous on the DEPLOY registry than Unitree H2. DEPLOY counts a capability as autonomous only when verified at a real deployment, not from a demo or a vendor claim.

Which has more verified deployments, Digit or Unitree H2?

Digit has more verified deployments (8) on the DEPLOY registry than Unitree H2 (0). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

Buying guide

Digit vs Unitree H2 in 2026

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

Key differences

Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous (1 vs 0).
Unitree H2 has the lower recorded price.
Digit has more verified real-world deployments (8 vs 0).
Digit is at the commercial stage; Unitree H2 at the research stage.

Attribute	Digit View full model page →	Unitree H2 View full model page →
Manufacturer	Agility Robotics	Unitree Robotics
Form factor	humanoid	humanoid
Maturity	commercial	research
Autonomy	✓ 1 verified autonomous	◐ not independently verified
Availability	internal-onlyenterprise	shipping-nowshipping
Price	$100,000-$250,000 (analyst estimate)	$29,900 (actual sale price)
Capability claims	Fetches items (autonomous, verified)	Picks and packs (demo-only, demonstrated-once)
Brain	GR00T N1 (Isaac GR00T) (foundation-model)	UnifoLM (world-model)
Verified deployments	8	0
Privacy practices	—	—
Sources on file	42	9

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 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 Digit and Unitree H2?: Digit 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.
Which is cheaper, Digit or Unitree H2?: Unitree H2 has the lower recorded price on the DEPLOY registry than Digit. Prices are sourced; see each record for whether the figure is a manufacturer target, an estimate, or an actual sale price.
Is Digit or Unitree H2 more autonomous?: Digit has more capabilities independently verified as autonomous on the DEPLOY registry than Unitree H2. DEPLOY counts a capability as autonomous only when verified at a real deployment, not from a demo or a vendor claim.
Which has more verified deployments, Digit or Unitree H2?: Digit has more verified deployments (8) on the DEPLOY registry than Unitree H2 (0). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.

Recent coverage

Bilibili showcases N.E.K.O., an AI companion that can interpret desktop content and initiate conversationsDigit · Technode · 2026-07-20
Agility Opens 60,000-square-foot Fremont Hub for Humanoid Robot DevelopmentDigit · Rocking Robots · 2026-07-17
Nvidia Isaac GR00T humanoid robot platform for researchers - qz.comUnitree H2 · Google News · 2026-07-03
Chinese robot maker Unitree wins approval for 619 million Shanghai IPOUnitree H2 · AgentRecon · 2026-07-02

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