Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot

A policy that walks flawlessly in simulation can stumble the moment it meets a real floor, a real cup or a real door handle. Closing that gap between the virtual training ground and the physical world is the problem the Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot was built to address. It is not a finished appliance with a fixed repertoire. It is a human-scale body, a pair of tactile hands and a substantial onboard computer, assembled as a reference design so that behaviour trained in software has somewhere credible to land.

Robots Europa, based in Dublin, supplies the Unitree H2 Plus to research institutions, universities and companies across the European Union and the DACH region. Robots Europa prepares each quotation, arranges delivery to the customer's site and remains the point of contact for technical support after the robot has arrived.

Background

Unitree Robotics and the H2 chassis

Unitree Robotics is a world-renowned civilian robotics company, and the H2 Plus takes the company's H2 humanoid chassis as its foundation. That chassis contributes 31 degrees of freedom across the body, giving the robot the range of motion needed for human-scale testing: reaching, bending, stepping and turning in spaces designed for people rather than machines. The Plus configuration then adds the hands, sensing and compute that turn a capable body into a development platform.

Built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform

The H2 Plus is Unitree's first humanoid reference design built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform. In practice this means the robot is designed to fit into a defined workflow: behaviours are simulated and trained in NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, then transferred to the physical robot through the accelerated NVIDIA Isaac ROS middleware. For a development team, a reference design of this kind reduces the time spent assembling a toolchain and leaves more of it for the research question itself.

Technical Specifications

Specifications are as published by the manufacturer and are confirmed against the datasheet at quotation.

The manufacturer has not published the top speed, the IP rating, the operating system, the operating temperature range or the charger and in-the-box contents; these details are confirmed at quotation.

What does a GR00T reference design mean for a buyer?

Many humanoid robots are sold as hardware first, leaving the customer to decide how training, simulation and deployment will fit together. The H2 Plus reverses that order. Because it is built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform, the route from a trained model to a moving robot is part of the design: Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for building and training behaviours, Isaac ROS for carrying the resulting policies onto the robot.

The onboard NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 supports that route at the robot end. With a Blackwell GPU rated at 2,070 FP4 teraflops, a 14-core Arm CPU and 128GB of unified memory, the robot can run demanding models locally rather than depending entirely on an off-board workstation. The configurable 40- to 130-watt power range lets a team weigh computational headroom against energy use, which matters on a robot whose battery provides about three hours of life. For a buyer, the practical consequence is a shorter path between an idea tested in simulation and an experiment carried out on the laboratory floor.

How do the tactile hands change what the H2 Plus can do?

A humanoid's usefulness is often decided at the end of its arms. The H2 Plus carries dual Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands with 22 active degrees of freedom, which bring the robot to 75 degrees of freedom across body and hands. Tactile sensing gives the control system information about contact itself, not only about what the cameras can see, and that is precisely the signal that dexterous manipulation research depends upon.

The sensing around the hands reinforces this. Wrist cameras cover close-range manipulation, where the head camera's view may be blocked by the arm or the object, while the head-mounted stereo camera, with its 140-degree horizontal and 102-degree vertical field of view, supplies the wider scene. An inertia measurement unit tracks the robot's motion. Arm torque of up to 120 Newton-meters and leg torque of up to 360 Newton-meters give the body the strength to hold a working posture while the hands carry out fine work.

Who is the Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot for?

The clearest fit is the research group working on embodied AI and robot learning. Teams that already train policies in simulation, or intend to, will find that the H2 Plus provides a physical counterpart aligned with the NVIDIA Isaac toolchain. Manipulation researchers form a second segment: the combination of tactile hands, wrist cameras and a high total degree-of-freedom count supports experiments in grasping, in-hand manipulation and tool use.

Universities and technical institutes building teaching programmes in humanoid robotics are a third audience, since a reference design offers students a coherent stack rather than a collection of parts. Finally, industrial innovation teams and system integrators evaluating humanoids for future deployment can use the H2 Plus to prototype tasks in human-scale environments before committing to a wider programme.

Unitree offers the H2 in several packages, and the right one depends on the work planned. Robots Europa can set this page beside other configurations listed in the Unitree H2 Plus category, such as the Unitree H2 Plus Standard Humanoid Robot and the Unitree H2 Plus SMART Humanoid Robot, and advise which package best suits a given programme.

What is the Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot used for?

1. Sim-to-real research: training behaviours in Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab and testing how they transfer to a physical humanoid.
2. Dexterous manipulation: studying grasping and in-hand control with tactile five-finger hands and wrist cameras.
3. Robot learning at the edge: running large models on the onboard Jetson AGX Thor T5000 rather than on a remote server.
4. Human-scale task prototyping: trialling work at benches, shelves and doorways built for people.
5. Voice and interaction studies: using the microphone and speaker array to explore spoken interaction with a humanoid.
6. Teaching and training: giving students hands-on experience of a complete humanoid development stack.

Pricing and Availability

The Unitree H2 Plus is supplied by quotation, so that the configuration, software requirements and intended application can be agreed before an order is placed. Delivery, customs clearance and technical support are arranged with the quotation. Robots Europa answers questions about the specification and the packages on offer, and the form to request a personalised quotation is available on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Unitree H2 Plus?

It is a humanoid robot reference design from Unitree Robotics, built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform. It combines the H2 humanoid chassis with tactile hands, a multi-camera sensing package and NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 onboard compute.

How many degrees of freedom does it have?

The body has 31 degrees of freedom and the hands add 22 active degrees of freedom, for a total of 75 across body and hands.

Which software does it work with?

The H2 Plus is designed for NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for simulation and training, with NVIDIA Isaac ROS middleware used to move trained policies onto the robot.

How long does the battery last?

The battery has a capacity of 15Ah and 0.972kWh and provides about three hours of life.

What safety functions does it have?

The robot has an on-remote emergency stop function for quickly disengaging it safely.

Which cameras and sensors does it carry?

A head-mounted stereo camera with a 140-degree horizontal and 102-degree vertical field of view covers the wider scene, while wrist cameras handle close-range manipulation. An inertia measurement unit tracks the robot's motion.

Where can I buy the Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot and what does it cost?

Robots Europa supplies the Unitree H2 Plus across the EU and the DACH region. The cost depends on the configuration and requirements agreed, so it is given in a personalised quotation that you can request on this page.

Summary

The distance between a model that works in simulation and a robot that works in a room is where much of humanoid research is won or lost. The Unitree H2 Plus is designed to shorten that distance: a human-scale chassis with 31 degrees of freedom, tactile hands that raise the total to 75, sensing that covers both the wide scene and the close grasp, and onboard compute capable of running substantial models, all aligned with the NVIDIA Isaac toolchain from training to deployment. For laboratories, universities and integrators that want their virtual results to hold up in the physical world, and who would like Robots Europa to handle supply, delivery and support, this page is the starting point.