Buying guide
Unitree G1 vs Unitree H1 in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
| Attribute | No image on file | No image on file |
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| Manufacturer | Unitree Robotics | Unitree Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | research | research |
| Availability | waitlistwaitlist | waitlistwaitlist |
| Price | $13,500 (actual sale price) | $90,000-$128,900 (manufacturer target) |
| Capability claims | — | — |
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| Verified deployments | 2Japan Airlines, Japan Airlines | 1Carnegie Mellon University |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 17 | 14 |
Editorial summaries
Unitree G1
The Unitree G1 is a research and developer humanoid platform at a sub-enterprise price point, sold into university labs, hardware-research groups, and individual developers rather than enterprise integration contracts. The category distinction matters: a G1 at a research bench is in its intended environment; treating G1 in active research use as commercial deployment overstates Unitree's commercial position relative to Apollo, Digit, or Atlas. Unitree describes G1's autonomy as developer-platform capability for capability research, with the published specs (degrees of freedom, payload, runtime) as the verifiable substance; commercial deployment hours at named customer sites are not yet part of G1's record.
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.
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