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Agility Robotics Digit vs.
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Unitree H2, a 2026 comparison of practicality, agility, and price by Lena Chen, Senior Robotics Analyst.
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Status checked, October 24th, 2026.
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One robot is being built around a workplace promise, move goods, fit into existing workflows, and operate near people.
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The other is a full-size humanoid platform with an unusually low published starting price and a clear appeal to developers.
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But the names need sorting out first.
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Agility's Digit 5 was unveiled on September 15th, 2026.
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Unitree unveiled the standard H2 on October 20th, 2025, and I found no confirmed second half 2026 hardware update to that standard model.
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Unitree's H2 Plus and the recently teased H2X are separate products or variants, not proof that the standard H2 has been refreshed.
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That difference matters.
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Digit 5 is still in development, while the H2 is listed for sale.
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Yet listed for sale does not mean a finished workplace solution.
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The H2's lowest advertised price is for its base version, which Unitree says does not support secondary development.
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The version a robotics developer should ask about is the H2 EDU, whose price is available only from sales.
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Agility's Digit 5 announcement, Unitree's H2 product page, confirming the versions and update dates.
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Digit 5, new model, announced in September 2026.
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Agility unveiled Digit 5 on September 15th, 2026.
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It is a new generation, not simply a Digit 4 with a software update.
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Agility says nearly all the parts changed between the two models, following years of customer use and design work.
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On October 15th, the company named Nyobolt as its fast-charging battery partner.
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On October 22nd, it announced that the general availability version would use NVIDIA IGX for onboard computing.
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Digit 5 launch announcement, agility on Digit 5's redesign, NIOBOLT battery announcement, Nvidia Compute Announcement, Unitree H2, current listing, but no confirmed second half refresh.
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Unitree first showed the Standard H2 on October 20th, 2025.
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Its current product page lists a$29,900 base model and an H2EDU version sold through sales.
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I found no dated announcement confirming a material hardware update to the standard H2 from July through October 2026.
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Unitree's company timeline, Unitree's current H2 specifications.
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Two related announcements can easily cause confusion.
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H2 Plus, announced on June 1, 2026, is a separate development and research configuration built around NVIDIA Jetson Thor, Nvidia Isaac Tools, and Optional Sharpa Tactile Hands.
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It is not a second half refresh of the standard H2.
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Unitree H2 Plus Specifications, H2X, shown in a Unitree video on October 21, 2026, is a newly teased variant.
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Unitree gave an approximate endurance claim, but no full specification sheet, price, or sales date was available as of October 24th.
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Its promotional scenes do not establish that the standard H2 gained those capabilities.
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Unitree's H2X video, at a glance.
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For the full table, please open this article on robotcomparisons.com.
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These are manufacturer published figures, not results from a shared independent test.
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Digit 5's specifications are preliminary.
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The payload numbers also describe different things.
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Agility describes repeated lifting.
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Unitree separates rated from peak arm load.
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They should not be treated as a clean head-to-head score.
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Agility's Digit 5 specifications, Unitree's H2 specifications, size, mobility, and agility.
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The robots are almost the same height.
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The big difference is mass.
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Digit 5 weighs about 59 kilograms more than H2.
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That makes H2 easier to move between labs and could matter when checking floor limits.
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Digit 5's extra weight comes with a different job description, repeated industrial lifting, and close attention to safe behavior around workers.
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Both walk on two legs and have adult scale proportions.
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That gives them a way to use spaces designed for people.
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Digit 5's reach is listed at up to 2.2 meters or 7.2 feet.
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Unitree gives a long arm dimension, but not a comparable whole robot task reach or a published H2 walking speed on its product page.
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Agility's Digit 5 page, Unitree's H2 page, H2 has the stronger showreel.
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Unitree has shown it in smooth, coordinated poses and martial arts style movement.
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Those videos show real movement skill.
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They do not tell a buyer how fast H2 can move through a warehouse while carrying a load, how often it needs help, or how consistently it can repeat a work cycle.
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Digit's strongest evidence is less flashy.
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The older Digit 4 has worked at customer sites for years.
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That is more relevant to a business evaluating industrial automation.
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Still, Digit 4's track record is not the same as Digit 5 test data.
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Agility says almost all Digit 5 components changed, so the new model must build its own record for long-term reliability.
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Digit 5 Announcement and Field History Agility Engineering QA, Manipulation and Payload.
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For moving heavy containers, Digit 5 has the more direct industrial claim.
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Agility says it can repeatedly lift up to 23 kilograms, 50 pounds.
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Its product page also lists a swappable gripper aimed at jobs such as tote handling and machine tending.
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The company has not published a total degrees of freedom count for Digit 5.
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Digit 5 launch announcement, Digit 5 features.
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H2 has 31 body degrees of freedom, 6 in each leg, 7 in each arm, 3 in the waist, and 2 in the head.
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That number gives developers many joints to work with.
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But it does not mean the standard robot arrives ready for every kind of grasping.
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Unitree lists no dexterous hand on the base H2.
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Hands are options on the EDU version.
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Unitree lists about 7 kg as rated arm payload and about 15 kilograms as peak.
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A peak load is not the same as a load the robot can safely repeat throughout a shift.
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Unitary H2 specifications.
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Digit 5 looks better suited to repetitive heavy material handling as sold and described by its maker.
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H2 offers more choice for research and custom builds, but buyers must check which hands, software access, and compute come with their specific H2 configuration.
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Endurance, a clear claim, but not a shared test.
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Agility says Digit 5 can run for about 90 minutes, then recharge in about 9 minutes, for a 10-to-1 run-to-charge ratio and more than 20 hours of work in a 24-hour day.
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Those are company figures for pre-production hardware, not an independently verified shift result.
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The value of that plan will depend on whether charging works smoothly in the buyer's actual task cycle.
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Agility's battery announcement.
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Unitree lists H2's 0.972 kWh quick release battery as lasting about three hours.
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The product page does not give a common test cycle that would make this directly comparable with Agility's run-to-charge ratio.
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The recent H2X teasers endurance claim applies to a different variant and should not be substituted for the standard H2 figure.
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Unitree H2 specifications.
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Unitree H2X video.
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On paper, Digit 5 has the stronger plan for keeping a work cell active.
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In practice, buyers should ask both vendors to test endurance with the same load, route, walking speed, and task rate.
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Sensors, compute, autonomy, and developer tools.
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Sensors in compute, agility says Digit uses cameras, depth sensors, and inertial measurement units.
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Its Digit 5 safety plan also uses human detection and dedicated safety functions.
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The exact sensor count and camera resolution are not in the public material reviewed here.
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Agility Digit 5 announcement, Unitree's H2 page, names a wide-field binocular camera, microphones, and a speaker.
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It also promotes 2070 TOPS of computing, but the detailed specification table lists Intel Core i5 and i7 computers and describes high-power computing modules as options for development configurations.
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A buyer should confirm in writing whether the 2070 TOPS module is part of the quoted H2 package.
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Unitree H2 specifications.
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For Digit 5's general availability version, Agility says it will standardize on Nvidia IGX Thor.
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The company is also working with Nvidia's Halo's safety framework.
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That is an announced architecture, not proof that every safety or autonomy feature is complete today.
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Agility's October 22 compute announcement, Autonomy and Software, Digit's strongest autonomy evidence, is a defined industrial task.
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Digit 4 has handled totework at customer sites.
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Digit 5 is meant to add more skills and connect to warehouse and manufacturing systems.
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Agility's ARC software is intended to manage robot fleets and link with existing warehouse and manufacturing software.
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These capabilities matter to an operator because a robot's value depends on completing a work cycle, not just moving on its own.
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Agility Digit 5 announcement, Digit 5 and ARC Unitry promotes H2's ability to support intelligent models and over-the-air updates, but its public H2 material does not give a workplace task success rate, intervention rate, or production throughput result.
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For development, Unitree provides an H2 developer guide and open source robot software.
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However, Unitree's own product listing says only H2EDU supports secondary development.
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The base model's low price is therefore a poor comparison for a buyer who needs to program and customize the robot.
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Unitree H2 product page.
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Verdict.
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Digit looks more like an industrial service with a robot attached.
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H2EDU looks more like a robot platform that the buyer must turn into a solution.
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What the public task evidence actually shows, there is no published match digit 5 vs.
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H2 workplace trial that I could verify.
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The fairest comparison is to separate Digit 4's field record from Digit 5's promised improvements, and to separate H2's motion demonstrations from proven workplace performance.
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For the full table, please open this article on robotcomparisons.com.
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Agility says the GXO result came from Digit 4.
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That is meaningful evidence, but it does not prove Digit 5 will match or improve on it out of the box.
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Unitree's H2 demonstrations are evidence of motion, not a substitute for repeatable workplace data.
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Agility's Digit 5 announcement, Unitree H2 product page.
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For a fair buying trial, put both systems on the same 5 kilogram tote transfer, same start and end points, shelf height, route, floor, lighting, and number of cycles.
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Record completion rate, time per cycle, drops, human interventions, charging time, and safety stops.
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Without that kind of test, bold performance claims are hard to turn into a reliable return on investment estimate.
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Safety, reliability, and support.
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Agility's pitch is that Digit 5 will work close to people, without the physical barriers used around many industrial robots.
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Its plan includes people detection, motion cues, and an independent safety controller.
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But Digit 5 is still in development, some safety features remain unfinished, and agility says third-party assessment is still ahead.
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Do not treat the phrase cooperatively safe as a blanket guarantee for every site or task.
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Agility Digit 5 safety and status notes, agility on the planned safety assessment, Unitree's H2 page tells buyers to keep a sufficient safe distance and use caution.
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It does not list an H2 workplace safety certification or a comparable system for shared operation beside workers.
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That does not by itself prove the robot is unsafe.
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It does mean a facility should not assume H2 is ready to share a production floor just because a video shows it performing stunts.
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Unitree H2 Safety Notice For reliability, Digit has the stronger starting point, but the evidence needs a label.
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Agility reports more than 65,000 operating hours across digit deployments and nearly three years of commercial operation.
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That history is valuable.
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Yet, because Digit 5 has a substantially changed design, those hours are not a long-duration reliability test of Digit 5 itself.
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Unitree has not published comparable H2 specific operating hours, uptime, or task failure figures in its product specifications.
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Agility's Digit 5 and Digit 4 field record agility engineering QA.
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Agility describes a commercial service system with deployment, support, and repair teams.
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In October 2026, it announced plans for a larger Pittsburgh facility to support customer deployments and service.
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Unitree publishes technical documentation and lists an eight-month warranty for standard H2 and 12 months for H2EDU.
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I did not find a public H2 response time promise or standard service price.
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Buyers should ask about parts, repairs, software help, travel costs, and response times before signing.
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Agility's Pittsburgh Service Expansion, Unitree H2 Warranty and Support Details, Price Availability, Delivery and Production.
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Unitree H2, a low sticker price with an important asterisk.
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Unitree lists the standard H2 at$29,900, excluding tax and shipping.
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The H2 EDU is sold through sales rather than at a public list price.
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The base H2 price is attractive for a full-size humanoid, but it is not the best number to use when budgeting a development project.
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Unitree's listing says only the EDU supports secondary development, and the standard model does not include dexterous hands.
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Unitree's H2 product listing.
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The H2 is listed for sale, but Unitree does not publish a firm delivery date on its H2 page.
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An authorized distributor in India said it was shipping H2 orders in August 2026.
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Delivery timing can depend on region.
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Configuration and seller.
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Get a written delivery estimate for the exact SKU you plan to buy.
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Unitree H2 listing.
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Distributors August 2026 shipping notice.
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Digit 5.
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Quote based with delivery later.
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Agility does not publish a Digit 5 purchase price or a standard service fee.
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It reported more than$300 million in multi-year Digit 5 customer orders, but those orders are subject to contractual milestones.
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They are not a published unit price or proof of completed deliveries.
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Early access is expected in the first half of 2027, with general availability expected by the end of 2027.
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Agility's Digit 5 announcement and availability outlook.
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Agility says its Salem Robofab factory is designed to produce up to 10,000 digits a year at full capacity.
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That is planned capacity, not a report of current production.
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Unitree has a larger overall humanoid shipment record.
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AK, citing robotics research group Omdia reported that Unitree shipped more than 5,000 humanoids in 2025.
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But Unitree has not published how many of those were H2s.
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Agility on Robofab and Production Plans, AP Report on Humanoid Shipments.
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Price Verdict.
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Unitree H2X Video.
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Bottom line, which robot is the better value?
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For an operating warehouse or factory, Digit has the stronger commercial case.
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Its older generation has real customer site hours and a reported tote handling record.
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Agility is building Digit 5 around shift work, workflow links, service, and safety near people.
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The catch is timing and price.
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Digit 5 is not generally available yet and its cost is not public.
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For a developer or research lab, the H2 is the more accessible full-size platform, but the EDU version is the relevant comparison.
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The standard H2's$29,900 price is compelling, but Unitree says it does not support secondary development.
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H2 EDU and H2 Plus add the development features that can make the robot useful for custom work, and their true purchase and service costs need to be confirmed.
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My verdict is simple.
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Digit is the better bet for a buyer purchasing a defined industrial outcome.
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H2 is the better bet for a buyer purchasing a flexible development project.
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The H2 looks more agile in showreels.
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Digit has stronger evidence of work.
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Until Digit 5 is delivered and tested, and H2EDU proves itself on repeatable workplace tasks.
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Neither headline price nor impressive motion is enough to settle the business case.
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Agility Robotics Digit vs.
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Unitree H2, a 2026 comparison of practicality, agility, and price by Lena Chen, Senior Robotics Analyst.
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Status checked, October 24th, 2026.
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One robot is being built around a workplace promise, move goods, fit into existing workflows, and operate near people.
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The other is a full-size humanoid platform with an unusually low published starting price and a clear appeal to developers.
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But the names need sorting out first.
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Agility's Digit 5 was unveiled on September 15th, 2026.
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Unitree unveiled the standard H2 on October 20th, 2025, and I found no confirmed second half 2026 hardware update to that standard model.
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Unitree's H2 Plus and the recently teased H2X are separate products or variants, not proof that the standard H2 has been refreshed.
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That difference matters.
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Digit 5 is still in development, while the H2 is listed for sale.
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Yet listed for sale does not mean a finished workplace solution.
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The H2's lowest advertised price is for its base version, which Unitree says does not support secondary development.
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The version a robotics developer should ask about is the H2 EDU, whose price is available only from sales.
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Agility's Digit 5 announcement, Unitree's H2 product page, confirming the versions and update dates.
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Digit 5, new model, announced in September 2026.
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Agility unveiled Digit 5 on September 15th, 2026.
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It is a new generation, not simply a Digit 4 with a software update.
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Agility says nearly all the parts changed between the two models, following years of customer use and design work.
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On October 15th, the company named Nyobolt as its fast-charging battery partner.
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On October 22nd, it announced that the general availability version would use NVIDIA IGX for onboard computing.
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Digit 5 launch announcement, agility on Digit 5's redesign, NIOBOLT battery announcement, Nvidia Compute Announcement, Unitree H2, current listing, but no confirmed second half refresh.
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Unitree first showed the Standard H2 on October 20th, 2025.
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Its current product page lists a$29,900 base model and an H2EDU version sold through sales.
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I found no dated announcement confirming a material hardware update to the standard H2 from July through October 2026.
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Unitree's company timeline, Unitree's current H2 specifications.
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Two related announcements can easily cause confusion.
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H2 Plus, announced on June 1, 2026, is a separate development and research configuration built around NVIDIA Jetson Thor, Nvidia Isaac Tools, and Optional Sharpa Tactile Hands.
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It is not a second half refresh of the standard H2.
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Unitree H2 Plus Specifications, H2X, shown in a Unitree video on October 21, 2026, is a newly teased variant.
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Unitree gave an approximate endurance claim, but no full specification sheet, price, or sales date was available as of October 24th.
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Its promotional scenes do not establish that the standard H2 gained those capabilities.
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Unitree's H2X video, at a glance.
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For the full table, please open this article on robotcomparisons.com.
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These are manufacturer published figures, not results from a shared independent test.
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Digit 5's specifications are preliminary.
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The payload numbers also describe different things.
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Agility describes repeated lifting.
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Unitree separates rated from peak arm load.
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They should not be treated as a clean head-to-head score.
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Agility's Digit 5 specifications, Unitree's H2 specifications, size, mobility, and agility.
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The robots are almost the same height.
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The big difference is mass.
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Digit 5 weighs about 59 kilograms more than H2.
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That makes H2 easier to move between labs and could matter when checking floor limits.
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Digit 5's extra weight comes with a different job description, repeated industrial lifting, and close attention to safe behavior around workers.
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Both walk on two legs and have adult scale proportions.
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That gives them a way to use spaces designed for people.
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Digit 5's reach is listed at up to 2.2 meters or 7.2 feet.
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Unitree gives a long arm dimension, but not a comparable whole robot task reach or a published H2 walking speed on its product page.
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Agility's Digit 5 page, Unitree's H2 page, H2 has the stronger showreel.
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Unitree has shown it in smooth, coordinated poses and martial arts style movement.
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Those videos show real movement skill.
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They do not tell a buyer how fast H2 can move through a warehouse while carrying a load, how often it needs help, or how consistently it can repeat a work cycle.
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Digit's strongest evidence is less flashy.
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The older Digit 4 has worked at customer sites for years.
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That is more relevant to a business evaluating industrial automation.
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Still, Digit 4's track record is not the same as Digit 5 test data.
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Agility says almost all Digit 5 components changed, so the new model must build its own record for long-term reliability.
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Digit 5 Announcement and Field History Agility Engineering QA, Manipulation and Payload.
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For moving heavy containers, Digit 5 has the more direct industrial claim.
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Agility says it can repeatedly lift up to 23 kilograms, 50 pounds.
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Its product page also lists a swappable gripper aimed at jobs such as tote handling and machine tending.
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The company has not published a total degrees of freedom count for Digit 5.
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Digit 5 launch announcement, Digit 5 features.
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H2 has 31 body degrees of freedom, 6 in each leg, 7 in each arm, 3 in the waist, and 2 in the head.
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That number gives developers many joints to work with.
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But it does not mean the standard robot arrives ready for every kind of grasping.
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Unitree lists no dexterous hand on the base H2.
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Hands are options on the EDU version.
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Unitree lists about 7 kg as rated arm payload and about 15 kilograms as peak.
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A peak load is not the same as a load the robot can safely repeat throughout a shift.
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Unitary H2 specifications.
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Digit 5 looks better suited to repetitive heavy material handling as sold and described by its maker.
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H2 offers more choice for research and custom builds, but buyers must check which hands, software access, and compute come with their specific H2 configuration.
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Endurance, a clear claim, but not a shared test.
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Agility says Digit 5 can run for about 90 minutes, then recharge in about 9 minutes, for a 10-to-1 run-to-charge ratio and more than 20 hours of work in a 24-hour day.
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Those are company figures for pre-production hardware, not an independently verified shift result.
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The value of that plan will depend on whether charging works smoothly in the buyer's actual task cycle.
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Agility's battery announcement.
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Unitree lists H2's 0.972 kWh quick release battery as lasting about three hours.
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The product page does not give a common test cycle that would make this directly comparable with Agility's run-to-charge ratio.
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The recent H2X teasers endurance claim applies to a different variant and should not be substituted for the standard H2 figure.
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Unitree H2 specifications.
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Unitree H2X video.
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On paper, Digit 5 has the stronger plan for keeping a work cell active.
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In practice, buyers should ask both vendors to test endurance with the same load, route, walking speed, and task rate.
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Sensors, compute, autonomy, and developer tools.
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Sensors in compute, agility says Digit uses cameras, depth sensors, and inertial measurement units.
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Its Digit 5 safety plan also uses human detection and dedicated safety functions.
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The exact sensor count and camera resolution are not in the public material reviewed here.
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Agility Digit 5 announcement, Unitree's H2 page, names a wide-field binocular camera, microphones, and a speaker.
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It also promotes 2070 TOPS of computing, but the detailed specification table lists Intel Core i5 and i7 computers and describes high-power computing modules as options for development configurations.
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A buyer should confirm in writing whether the 2070 TOPS module is part of the quoted H2 package.
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Unitree H2 specifications.
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For Digit 5's general availability version, Agility says it will standardize on Nvidia IGX Thor.
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The company is also working with Nvidia's Halo's safety framework.
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That is an announced architecture, not proof that every safety or autonomy feature is complete today.
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Agility's October 22 compute announcement, Autonomy and Software, Digit's strongest autonomy evidence, is a defined industrial task.
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Digit 4 has handled totework at customer sites.
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Digit 5 is meant to add more skills and connect to warehouse and manufacturing systems.
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Agility's ARC software is intended to manage robot fleets and link with existing warehouse and manufacturing software.
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These capabilities matter to an operator because a robot's value depends on completing a work cycle, not just moving on its own.
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Agility Digit 5 announcement, Digit 5 and ARC Unitry promotes H2's ability to support intelligent models and over-the-air updates, but its public H2 material does not give a workplace task success rate, intervention rate, or production throughput result.
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For development, Unitree provides an H2 developer guide and open source robot software.
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However, Unitree's own product listing says only H2EDU supports secondary development.
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The base model's low price is therefore a poor comparison for a buyer who needs to program and customize the robot.
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Unitree H2 product page.
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Verdict.
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Digit looks more like an industrial service with a robot attached.
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H2EDU looks more like a robot platform that the buyer must turn into a solution.
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What the public task evidence actually shows, there is no published match digit 5 vs.
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H2 workplace trial that I could verify.
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The fairest comparison is to separate Digit 4's field record from Digit 5's promised improvements, and to separate H2's motion demonstrations from proven workplace performance.
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For the full table, please open this article on robotcomparisons.com.
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Agility says the GXO result came from Digit 4.
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That is meaningful evidence, but it does not prove Digit 5 will match or improve on it out of the box.
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Unitree's H2 demonstrations are evidence of motion, not a substitute for repeatable workplace data.
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Agility's Digit 5 announcement, Unitree H2 product page.
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For a fair buying trial, put both systems on the same 5 kilogram tote transfer, same start and end points, shelf height, route, floor, lighting, and number of cycles.
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Record completion rate, time per cycle, drops, human interventions, charging time, and safety stops.
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Without that kind of test, bold performance claims are hard to turn into a reliable return on investment estimate.
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Safety, reliability, and support.
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Agility's pitch is that Digit 5 will work close to people, without the physical barriers used around many industrial robots.
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Its plan includes people detection, motion cues, and an independent safety controller.
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But Digit 5 is still in development, some safety features remain unfinished, and agility says third-party assessment is still ahead.
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Do not treat the phrase cooperatively safe as a blanket guarantee for every site or task.
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Agility Digit 5 safety and status notes, agility on the planned safety assessment, Unitree's H2 page tells buyers to keep a sufficient safe distance and use caution.
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It does not list an H2 workplace safety certification or a comparable system for shared operation beside workers.
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That does not by itself prove the robot is unsafe.
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It does mean a facility should not assume H2 is ready to share a production floor just because a video shows it performing stunts.
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Unitree H2 Safety Notice For reliability, Digit has the stronger starting point, but the evidence needs a label.
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Agility reports more than 65,000 operating hours across digit deployments and nearly three years of commercial operation.
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That history is valuable.
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Yet, because Digit 5 has a substantially changed design, those hours are not a long-duration reliability test of Digit 5 itself.
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Unitree has not published comparable H2 specific operating hours, uptime, or task failure figures in its product specifications.
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Agility's Digit 5 and Digit 4 field record agility engineering QA.
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Agility describes a commercial service system with deployment, support, and repair teams.
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In October 2026, it announced plans for a larger Pittsburgh facility to support customer deployments and service.
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Unitree publishes technical documentation and lists an eight-month warranty for standard H2 and 12 months for H2EDU.
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I did not find a public H2 response time promise or standard service price.
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Buyers should ask about parts, repairs, software help, travel costs, and response times before signing.
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Agility's Pittsburgh Service Expansion, Unitree H2 Warranty and Support Details, Price Availability, Delivery and Production.
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Unitree H2, a low sticker price with an important asterisk.
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Unitree lists the standard H2 at$29,900, excluding tax and shipping.
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The H2 EDU is sold through sales rather than at a public list price.
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The base H2 price is attractive for a full-size humanoid, but it is not the best number to use when budgeting a development project.
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Unitree's listing says only the EDU supports secondary development, and the standard model does not include dexterous hands.
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Unitree's H2 product listing.
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The H2 is listed for sale, but Unitree does not publish a firm delivery date on its H2 page.
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An authorized distributor in India said it was shipping H2 orders in August 2026.
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Delivery timing can depend on region.
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Configuration and seller.
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Get a written delivery estimate for the exact SKU you plan to buy.
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Unitree H2 listing.
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Distributors August 2026 shipping notice.
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Digit 5.
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Quote based with delivery later.
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Agility does not publish a Digit 5 purchase price or a standard service fee.
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It reported more than$300 million in multi-year Digit 5 customer orders, but those orders are subject to contractual milestones.
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They are not a published unit price or proof of completed deliveries.
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Early access is expected in the first half of 2027, with general availability expected by the end of 2027.
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Agility's Digit 5 announcement and availability outlook.
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Agility says its Salem Robofab factory is designed to produce up to 10,000 digits a year at full capacity.
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That is planned capacity, not a report of current production.
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Unitree has a larger overall humanoid shipment record.
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AK, citing robotics research group Omdia reported that Unitree shipped more than 5,000 humanoids in 2025.
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But Unitree has not published how many of those were H2s.
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Agility on Robofab and Production Plans, AP Report on Humanoid Shipments.
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Price Verdict.
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Unitree H2X Video.
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Bottom line, which robot is the better value?
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For an operating warehouse or factory, Digit has the stronger commercial case.
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Its older generation has real customer site hours and a reported tote handling record.
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Agility is building Digit 5 around shift work, workflow links, service, and safety near people.
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The catch is timing and price.
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Digit 5 is not generally available yet and its cost is not public.
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For a developer or research lab, the H2 is the more accessible full-size platform, but the EDU version is the relevant comparison.
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The standard H2's$29,900 price is compelling, but Unitree says it does not support secondary development.
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H2 EDU and H2 Plus add the development features that can make the robot useful for custom work, and their true purchase and service costs need to be confirmed.
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My verdict is simple.
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Digit is the better bet for a buyer purchasing a defined industrial outcome.
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H2 is the better bet for a buyer purchasing a flexible development project.
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The H2 looks more agile in showreels.
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Digit has stronger evidence of work.
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Until Digit 5 is delivered and tested, and H2EDU proves itself on repeatable workplace tasks.
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Neither headline price nor impressive motion is enough to settle the business case.
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