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Unitree H2 Price 2026: Why $29,900 Isn't What You'll Pay
Unitree H2 Price & Availability (July 2026): The Real Cost Behind the $29,900 Sticker
Full-size 182 cm humanoid, 31 degrees of freedom, three tiers from $29,900 to $100,000 — and a configured, development-ready unit costs more than any headline number suggests. Here is the complete July 2026 picture for USA & Canada buyers: verified tier pricing, what hands and compute actually add, and where each version stands on delivery.
As of September 1, 2026, the Unitree H2 EDU sells US-fulfilled at $66,800 — down from $68,900 — and the refundable deposit route is gone: the North American listings now take the full price at checkout instead of a reservation deposit. The widely quoted $29,900 remains a manufacturer-direct import price, not a US checkout price.
Buy the Unitree H2 — $39,900 → H2 EDU — $66,800 →
Checkout completes at our partner dealer — you leave BotInfo to finish the order · listed in stock for US delivery, full price at North American checkout · your discount is applied automatically in the cart · re-verified September 7, 2026. The listings the dealer rebuilt on September 1 were re-pointed the same day and have resolved on every daily check since, so these are direct checkouts again, not a quote hand-off. Buying on a purchase order? Our quote desk handles institutional paperwork.
Quick Facts — Unitree H2 (verified August 19, 2026)
Starting price: $29,900 (base, direct — currently supply-constrained). Three tiers exist: H2, H2 EDU, and the new H2 Plus. What you actually pay depends on hand and compute configuration — the full cost breakdown is in the tables below.
Availability: Base H2 units are delivering now through North American distributor channels. H2 EDU deliveries phase through Q3 2026. Corrected September 7, 2026: both H2 Plus builds were listed in stock for US delivery in our automated price check on September 7, 2026 — the late-2026 date belongs to the $100,000 reference build with tactile five-finger hands, not to the builds a North American buyer can order today.
What's new: Unitree unveiled the H2 Plus at Computex (June 1, 2026) as NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T reference humanoid — details below. Unitree's Shanghai STAR Market IPO was approved the same day.
Successor note: The H1 reached end of life in March 2026. The H2 family is its replacement.
H2 Family Pricing & Ordering — All Three Tiers
Every tier below can be ordered today from North American channels with warranty, support, and import handling included. Changed September 1, 2026: the refundable deposit route was withdrawn — the H2 and H2 EDU listings now take the full price at checkout instead of a reservation deposit. Verified at the North American checkout on September 1, 2026.
| Model | List price | Delivery status | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unitree H2 Base platform · Intel Core i5 · dummy hands · pre-programmed behaviors, no secondary development |
$29,900 direct* $39,900 North American checkout verified September 1, 2026 |
Delivering now In stock *Direct base units currently supply-constrained |
Buy the H2 — $39,900 Checkout completes at our partner dealer — you leave BotInfo to finish the order · listed in stock for US delivery, full price at North American checkout · your discount is applied automatically in the cart · re-verified September 7, 2026 |
| Unitree H2 EDU Secondary development · full SDK & ROS 2 · Intel Core i7 + PC3/PC4 expansion slots · compute up to Jetson AGX Thor · 12-month warranty |
From $66,800 was $68,900 · re-verified September 1, 2026 |
Phased deliveries Q3 2026 Order now | Buy the H2 EDU — $66,800 Checkout completes at our partner dealer — you leave BotInfo to finish the order · listed in stock for US delivery, full price at North American checkout · your discount is applied automatically in the cart · re-verified September 7, 2026 |
| Unitree H2 Plus NVIDIA Isaac GR00T reference humanoid · Jetson AGX Thor T5000 · Sharpa Wave tactile 5-finger hands · 75 total DOF |
From $66,800 $83,600 with Jetson Thor included · $100,000 is the announced list for the reference build with tactile five-finger hands · verified September 2, 2026 |
Changed September 1, 2026: listed in stock for US delivery, not late 2026 In stock | Order the H2 Plus — $66,800 or the Ultimate, Thor included — $83,600 Checkout completes at our partner dealer — you leave BotInfo to finish the order · listed in stock for US delivery, full price at North American checkout · your discount is applied automatically in the cart · both builds re-verified September 7, 2026 · confirm configuration and lead time in writing before ordering |
Prices are manufacturer list pricing in USD, verified July 12, 2026 across direct and North American distributor sources. Distributor pricing includes North American warranty, support, and import handling; direct pricing excludes duties and import handling. Dual-arm research configurations and multi-unit institutional orders: use the quote form.
Availability Status by Variant
H2, H2 EDU and H2 Plus checkout prices re-verified September 1, 2026 · Accessory listings re-checked August 26, 2026 · Last full verification: August 19, 2026 — pricing and stock re-checked against manufacturer and North American distributor listings
| Variant | List price | Status | Lead time |
|---|---|---|---|
| H2 (base) | $29,900 direct / $39,900 NA (NA price verified September 1, 2026) | Delivering In stock | Ships now via North American channel; direct units supply-constrained |
| H2 EDU | From $66,800 | Accepting orders Phased | Deliveries phase through Q3 2026, fulfilled in order sequence |
| H2 Plus | From $66,800 (Standard) / $83,600 (Thor included) | Orderable now In stock | Changed September 1, 2026: the North American channel lists both H2 Plus builds in stock for US delivery. The $100,000 figure quoted elsewhere is the announced list for the reference configuration with tactile five-finger hands — a different build; hands are priced separately on the in-stock ones. |
What a Development-Ready H2 Actually Costs
The single most misunderstood thing about H2 pricing: the base robot ships with non-functional dummy hands and no development access. Google's own AI answers now carry a disclaimer that hands and AI compute "significantly increase the final setup cost" — but nobody publishes the actual numbers. Here they are, verified against current North American distributor accessory pricing:
| Add-on | What it does | Price (each) |
|---|---|---|
| Dex3-1 three-finger hand | Force-controlled grasping; tactile version available | $6,000–$7,000 |
| BrainCo Revo 2 five-finger hand | Bionic five-finger dexterity | $5,000–$7,000 |
| DFQ / In-Time FTP hand options | Alternative dexterous hand platforms | $7,000–$9,000 |
| Dex5-1 five-finger hand | Unitree's flagship dexterous hand | $25,000 |
| Dex5-1P five-finger hand | Dex5-1 with enhanced tactile package | $29,000 |
| Intel Core i7 development board | PC2 secondary development compute | $4,200 |
| NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX | Entry AI compute module | $4,200 |
| NVIDIA Jetson Orin computing board | Orin-class AI compute. Changed August 26, 2026: the AGX Orin assembly is no longer listed; the Orin-class options still sold are the Orin NX (100 TOPS) above and this board, both at $4,200. | $4,200 |
| NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor | Flagship compute — 2,070 TOPS | $16,800 |
| Spare 15Ah quick-release battery | ~3 hours runtime each | $3,000 |
Worked example: a research-ready H2 EDU
H2 EDU base ($66,800, verified September 1, 2026) + two Dex3-1 tactile hands ($7,000 each) + Jetson AGX Thor ($16,800) + spare battery ($3,000), before tax and shipping — which is why the $100,000 H2 Plus, arriving pre-integrated with tactile five-finger hands and Thor compute, is priced exactly where a self-configured flagship EDU already lands. Budget accordingly in grant applications: the sticker price is roughly two-thirds of a deployed research configuration.
H2 Accessories & Spare Parts
Beyond hands and compute, these are the remaining line items on a full H2 quote. One 15Ah battery, one charger, one remote controller, and one protective gantry ship standard with every H2 — prices below are for spares and additions:
| Accessory | Notes | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Dex1-1 two-finger gripper Standard / Advanced / Ultimate | Budget alternative to dexterous hands; Advanced adds an RGB camera, Ultimate adds a D405 depth camera; user-installed; supports development. Standard and Advanced are single-gripper listings, and robots typically take two. Changed August 26, 2026: the Ultimate single-gripper listing was withdrawn — its product page now returns not-found. The only Ultimate-tier Dex1-1 listing still live is $2,160, and it does not state whether that price covers one gripper or a pair, so settle the quantity in writing before ordering. | $380 / $580 / $2,160 |
| Dedicated remote controller | 2.4 GHz, 100 m+ range, 4.5-hour runtime | $370 |
| Battery charger | Secondary charger for spare-battery rotation | $385 |
| Protective gantry (crane) | Debugging support bracket for tethered testing. Changed August 26, 2026: the listing is still live and orderable but no longer publishes a number — it reads “Call for price”. It carried a published price in our daily capture through August 22, 2026; that figure is not restated here, because the listing no longer publishes one. | Call for price |
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Unitree H2 Plus: The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid
Can you buy an H2 Plus right now, or do you have to wait for late 2026?
You can buy one now. The North American channel lists both H2 Plus builds in stock for US delivery: the Standard at $66,800 and the Ultimate, with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor included, at $83,600. Both figures were re-verified in our daily capture of that channel's own listings on September 2, 2026, and both product pages were read first-hand on September 1, 2026. There is no allocation queue to join and no $100,000 minimum to clear.
Why almost every other source still says the opposite. The widely repeated line — a $100,000 price, ordering opening late in 2026 — describes the reference configuration announced alongside the Isaac GR00T program: the 75-DOF build with tactile five-finger hands. That machine is real and that is its announced list price. It is not the machine sitting in North American inventory, which ships with dummy hands and prices dexterous hands separately. Both statements are true at the same time, and collapsing them into one is what leaves buyers believing a robot they could order today is a year away.
What we checked, stated plainly. Our price watcher reads the North American channel's own product data every morning and has carried both H2 Plus builds since they appeared; the listings' stock flags and prices are what the figures above come from, not a press release or a spec sheet. The listing describes the units as ready to ship from US inventory. We have not independently timed a delivery, so we do not publish a lead time — the honest instruction is to have configuration and lead time confirmed in writing before you order, which is what the quote desk is for.
Which build a lab should actually order — dummy-hand Standard, Thor-equipped Ultimate, or a self-configured H2 EDU that lands in the same price band — is the comparison worked through in the pricing section above.
On June 1, 2026, at Computex in Taipei, NVIDIA and Unitree announced the H2 Plus — the first open humanoid reference design built on NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T development platform. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduced it on stage as a fully integrated research platform: the H2 chassis paired with dual Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands (22 DOF each, bringing the system to 75 total degrees of freedom), head-mounted wide-field stereo vision, wrist cameras for close-range manipulation, and a remote emergency stop.
The compute is the headline: an onboard NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 with a Blackwell GPU delivering 2,070 FP4 teraflops and 128 GB of unified memory, running NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T software stack — foundation models, simulation, training, and deployment workflows in one validated package. Whole-body control specs carry over from the H2 platform: 360 N·m leg torque, 120 N·m arm torque, 7 kg rated arm payload (15 kg peak), and roughly 3 hours per battery.
Institutional signal, for procurement committees: Ai2, ETH Zurich, the Stanford Robotics Center, and UC San Diego's Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory are already committed to the platform. NVIDIA's stated intent is to take "frontier humanoid research out of the hands of only the world's largest tech companies" — its robotics VP said availability opens in October and "anyone can buy it," with mass production ramping in Q4 2026. List price is $100,000. Changed September 1, 2026: in North America that has already happened — the channel now lists H2 Plus builds in stock for US delivery, from $66,800 with dummy hands and $83,600 with Jetson AGX Thor included, dexterous hands priced separately. Verified at checkout September 1, 2026. Submit an inquiry to have configuration and lead time confirmed in writing before you order.
Replacing the H1: Why the H2 Is the Successor Platform
The Unitree H1 — the platform that set humanoid speed records and anchored hundreds of research labs — reached end of life in March 2026. Labs standardizing today should treat the H2 family as the continuation platform: same SDK lineage, current-generation actuators, and a manufacturer roadmap (App Store integration, UnifoLM vision-language-action models, the GR00T partnership) that is H2-first. The H1 remains a legacy platform with limited remaining availability through dealer channels — July 2026 list pricing still shows the H1 at $94,905 and the H1-2 at $122,455 — and parts and warranty support continue. But new deployments on an end-of-life platform are hard to justify in grant review. For teams weighing the transition, the practical mapping is: H1 locomotion research → H2 base; H1 with development package → H2 EDU; frontier manipulation and embodied-AI work → H2 Plus.
H2 Family vs. G1 vs. R1: Which Unitree Humanoid Fits
| Model | Height / DOF | Compute | List price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H2 | 182 cm · 31 DOF | Intel Core i5 | $29,900–$39,900 | Demos, pilots, human-scale interaction |
| H2 EDU | 182 cm · 31–40 DOF | i7 → Jetson AGX Thor | From $66,800 | University & corporate R&D, custom development |
| H2 Plus | 182 cm · 75 DOF (with hands) | Jetson Thor T5000 + Isaac GR00T | $100,000 as specced $66,800–$83,600 for the in-stock builds, dummy hands | Frontier manipulation & embodied-AI research |
| G1 | 132 cm · 23–43 DOF | Config-dependent | From $13,500 | Manipulation research at lab scale — G1 guide |
| R1 | 121 cm · 24–40 DOF | Up to 100 TOPS | From $4,900 | Teaching, multi-unit fleets — R1 guide |
| H1 EOL Mar 2026 | 180 cm · 27 DOF | — | From $94,905 | Legacy — superseded by H2 |
Choosing between full-size and lab-scale: if the research question requires human-scale reach, payload, or interaction, it's the H2 family; if it's manipulation-first at bench scale, the G1's higher hand DOF per dollar is often the better instrument. Cross-shopping against other full-size platforms? See how the H2 compares with the EngineAI T800.
Verdict: who should buy the Unitree H2
The Unitree H2 is the best full-size humanoid platform for research and deployment where human-scale reach, arm payload, and presence matter. Buy the H2 EDU for any development work — the base H2 does not support SDK access and suits demonstration and pilot roles only. Choose the G1 EDU family for lower-cost manipulation research at bench scale, or the R1 line for teaching fleets and budget data collection. And configure honestly: a research-ready H2 lands near $100,000 all-in, which is exactly where the pre-integrated H2 Plus is priced.
Manufacturer Stability: The IPO Signal
For procurement officers evaluating platform longevity: China's securities regulator approved Unitree's Shanghai STAR Market listing on June 1, 2026 — the same day as the NVIDIA announcement — clearing the company to raise approximately $620 million. The prospectus behind it discloses audited 2025 revenue of ¥1.7 billion (up 335% year over year), profitability since 2020, and more than 5,500 humanoid units shipped in 2025 — roughly a third of global humanoid shipments, the largest share of any manufacturer. An IPO-stage supplier with audited financials, an NVIDIA reference-platform partnership, and adoption at Stanford and ETH Zurich is about as de-risked as humanoid procurement gets in 2026.
Buying on a Purchase Order? Institutional Ordering Support
Every H2 tier above has a live checkout — the buttons in the table are the fastest route and the one this page recommends. This form is for buyers who cannot use a card checkout: purchase orders, net terms, grant documentation, multi-unit orders and dual-arm research configurations.
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Unitree H2 — Frequently Asked Questions
How much does the Unitree H2 cost?
The base H2 starts at $29,900 (direct list price), but that's one of three tiers and excludes functional hands and development compute. A configured, research-ready unit lands meaningfully higher — the full tier table and add-on cost breakdown on this page show exactly where the money goes.
Is the Unitree H2 available now?
Base H2 units are delivering now through North American distributor channels, with direct base-model supply currently constrained. H2 EDU deliveries phase through Q3 2026, and the H2 Plus arrives late 2026. Current status by tier is in the ordering table above.
What is the Unitree H2 Plus?
The H2 Plus is the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T reference humanoid announced June 1, 2026 — an H2 with tactile five-finger hands, wrist cameras, and Jetson AGX Thor compute, listed at $100,000 for the reference configuration. As of September 1, 2026 the North American channel lists H2 Plus builds in stock for US delivery from $66,800, with dexterous hands priced separately. How that compares with configuring an H2 EDU yourself is covered above.
What's the difference between the H2 and H2 EDU?
The base H2 runs pre-programmed behaviors only; the EDU adds secondary development access — full SDK, ROS 2, upgraded compute with expansion slots, and a longer warranty. Which one a lab actually needs depends on the work; the comparison table above maps use cases to tiers.
Do H2 robots come with working hands?
No — the base H2 ships with non-functional dummy hands. Dexterous hand options range from roughly $6,000 to $29,000 each depending on the model; the priced add-on table on this page lists every current option.
What replaced the Unitree H1?
The H1 reached end of life in March 2026, and the H2 family is its successor. The migration mapping — which H2 tier corresponds to which H1 configuration — is covered in the successor section above.
Can I buy the Unitree H2 in Canada?
Yes — North American distributor channels ship to both the USA and Canada with import handling included. Ordering paths for both countries are in the table at the top of this page.
Is Unitree financially stable enough for institutional procurement?
Unitree cleared approval for a Shanghai STAR Market IPO in June 2026 with audited financials showing 335% revenue growth and market-leading humanoid shipment volume. The full de-risking picture for grant and procurement documentation is summarized above.
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Pricing verified August 19, 2026 across direct and North American distributor sources. List prices only; distributor-tier and volume pricing available via the procurement form.
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