Insider Brief
- Unitree unveiled the H2 Plus, a full-size humanoid robot and reference development platform built on Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T ecosystem, combining locomotion, manipulation, sensing and onboard AI computing in a system expected to launch in late 2026.
- The robot stands nearly 6 feet tall, weighs about 150 pounds, features 75 degrees of freedom, tactile five-finger hands, stereo vision, wrist-mounted cameras and onboard Nvidia Jetson AGX Thor computing for real-time AI processing and robot control.
- Unitree said the H2 Plus is designed to simplify humanoid robot development by providing a standardized hardware and software platform for data collection, simulation, training and deployment, with the same development approach also extending to the company’s smaller G1 humanoid robot.
Chinese robotics company Unitree has unveiled the H2 Plus, a new full-size humanoid robot designed to serve as a reference platform for researchers and developers.
According to Unitree, the H2 Plus, built on Nividia’s Isaac GROOT platform with Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, is designed to provide a common hardware and software foundation for humanoid robotics development, bringing together locomotion, manipulation, sensing and onboard AI computing in a single platform. The robot is expected to be available in late 2026.
“Developers want humanoid robots that are ready to build on,” Unitree founder and CEO Xingxing Wang said in the announcement “H2 Plus combines Unitree’s humanoid with Nvidia Jetson Thor and the Nvidia Isaac GR00T development platform, giving teams a validated starting point for creating robot skills and bringing them into real-world applications.”
What is the H2 Plus?
The robot stands nearly 6 feet tall and weighs about 150 pounds. It features 31 degrees of freedom across its body and is equipped with dual tactile five-finger hands that add another 44 degrees of freedom, bringing the system to 75 total degrees of freedom. The hands are designed to support more advanced manipulation tasks that require finger-level dexterity.
The H2 Plus is powered by Nvidia’s Jetson AGX Thor T5000 onboard computing system, which combines a Blackwell GPU, a 14-core Arm CPU and 128GB of unified memory to handle real-time sensor processing, AI inference and robot control.
For perception, the H2 Plus includes a head-mounted stereo camera system with a wide field of view, wrist-mounted cameras for close-range manipulation and an inertial measurement unit used for motion tracking and balance control, according to the company. The robot is also equipped with microphones and speakers for voice-based interaction.
According to Unitree, the robot is designed for more demanding physical tasks than many research platforms. The system can generate up to 360 Newton-meters of torque in its legs and 120 Newton-meters in its arms. Unitree said the robot has a rated arm payload of 7 kilograms and can handle peak payloads of up to 15 kilograms.
The company estimates the robot can operate for approximately three hours on a single battery charge and includes a remote emergency-stop function for safety during testing and development.
How H2 Plus Helps Developers
Unitree said the H2 Plus is intended to simplify the fragmented process that often accompanies humanoid robotics development, where teams must independently integrate hardware, collect training data, build simulation environments and deploy software onto physical robots. Packaging these capabilities into a single reference design provides a more standardized platform for research and development, the company claims.
The H2 Plus will also serve as a development platform for researchers using Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T software environment, which supports data collection, simulation, training and deployment workflows. Unitree said developers will retain control of their training data, telemetry and robot-generated information while using the platform.
“Humanoid robots will bring physical AI to the world’s largest industries, opening a multitrillion-dollar economic opportunity,” added Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang. “The Nvidia Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot built on H2 Plus, gives researchers a single, open platform to make breakthrough discoveries toward general-purpose physical intelligence.”
Unitree said the same development approach will also support its smaller G1 humanoid robot, extending the software ecosystem across multiple robot platforms. More information on the H2 Plus can be found here.
Image credit: Unitree
