The Unitree H2 anchors the priced end of DEPLOY's Chinese humanoid sub-cohort: where Fourier GR-2, XPeng IRON, EngineAI SE01, and MagicLab's MagicBot are research/pilot demonstration platforms, the H2 has a real published consumer price, the Chinese counterpart to the West's 1X NEO and Tesla Optimus consumer framing.
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The price and hardware are verified: $29,900 (China-direct), 31 degrees of freedom (up from the H1's 27) with a new 3-DoF waist and 7-DoF arms, ~1.82m/70kg, and a ~3-hour battery.
The $29,900 above is a verified, openly-published price, China-direct (ex-customs). It is one of the few Chinese humanoids with a real consumer price rather than research-only or industrial-only availability. Note: this is a China-direct ex-customs price, not a US landed price.
Availability
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The Unitree H2 is for sale at a published price (China-direct). DEPLOY records commercial maturity (for-sale), not production: there is no verified fleet-scale deployment. From Unitree Robotics (Hangzhou).
Real-world status
The Unitree H2 is a full-size humanoid, the successor to the H1, and one of the rare Chinese humanoids with a verified published consumer price ($29,900, China-direct). It has 31 degrees of freedom (up from the H1's 27): a new 3-DoF waist, 7-DoF arms, a quasi-serial leg/foot redesign, and a bio-inspired animated face. It is about 1.82m and 70kg, with a ~3-hour battery, Intel Core i5/i7 base compute (an EDU variant offers NVIDIA Jetson), and walks under 2 m/s, down from the H1's ~3.3, trading speed for dexterity. The verified-vs-claimed point is the autonomy posture: H2's marquee dance, boxing, and gala demos are choreographed or teleoperated (via control rig or Apple Vision Pro), NOT verified-autonomous. Autonomy is the goal, not the present state.
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The autonomy cap-flag is the verified-vs-claimed core: the H2's viral dance, boxing, and gala demos are choreographed or teleoperated (control rig or Apple Vision Pro), NOT autonomous. Aggregator framing of these clips as 'autonomous humanoid' overstates the verified state; autonomy is the goal, not the present capability.
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Two more cap-flags: the $29,900 is a China-direct ex-customs price (not a US landed price), and the often-cited '2070 TOPS' compute figure is the optional EDU NVIDIA Jetson variant, not the Intel base unit.
Chinese humanoids: Unitree H2 vs research-tier vs the West
$29,900, an openly-published price🟢verified (China-direct, ex-customs; not a US landed price). Rare in the Chinese humanoid cohort for having a real consumer price.
Is the Unitree H2 autonomous?
No🟠claimed. Its dance, boxing, and gala demos are choreographed or teleoperated (control rig or Apple Vision Pro), not verified-autonomous. Autonomy is the goal, not the present state.
How is the H2 different from the H1?
31 DoF (up from 27), with a new 3-DoF waist and 7-DoF arms and an animated face🟢verified; it walks under 2 m/s (down from the H1's ~3.3), trading speed for dexterity.
How much compute does the H2 have?
Intel Core i5/i7 in the base unit🟢verified; the often-cited '2070 TOPS' is the optional EDU NVIDIA Jetson variant, not the base.
Is the Unitree H2 deployed at scale?
No🟢verified. DEPLOY records commercial (for-sale) maturity, not production; there is no verified fleet-scale deployment.
Pricing and availability are tagged verified or claimed against primary sources. Manufacturer targets are reported as targets, not prices you can pay today.