Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot

In electronics, engineers seldom start a new product from a blank circuit board. They begin with a reference design, a known-good combination of parts that shows how the pieces are meant to fit together, and they build their own ideas on top of it. The Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot brings that habit to humanoid robotics. It is Unitree's first humanoid reference design built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform, joining a full humanoid body, dexterous tactile hands, a wide-angle sensing suite and onboard compute from NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Thor family into one machine. Development teams therefore spend their effort on behaviour rather than on assembling hardware from scratch.

Robots Middle East sells the Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot and supplies it to universities, research institutes, technology companies and public bodies across the Middle East. Robots Middle East prepares each quotation, arranges delivery to the customer's site and provides support after installation, so that a laboratory can move from order to first experiment with a single point of contact throughout.

Background

Unitree Robotics and its humanoid work

Unitree Robotics is a world-renowned civilian robotics company, known for legged machines that have become familiar sights in research laboratories, teaching facilities and technology demonstrations. Its humanoid range extends that experience in locomotion and actuation to bipedal platforms intended for development work. The H2 Plus sits within this range as a configuration of the Unitree H2 humanoid chassis, and the wider family can be explored through the Unitree H2 Plus category, where the packaged configurations are listed side by side.

A reference design for the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T platform

The distinguishing idea behind the H2 Plus is its role as a reference design. NVIDIA Isaac GR00T is a development platform for humanoid robots, and the H2 Plus is built to work with the surrounding software: NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for simulation and training, and the accelerated NVIDIA Isaac ROS middleware for moving trained policies onto the physical robot. In practice this means the body, sensors and computer have been chosen to match the toolchain, rather than leaving each customer to reconcile drivers, interfaces and compute budgets on their own. For a research group, that coherence is often worth as much as any single specification.

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; Robots Middle East confirms these at quotation.

What does the Jetson AGX Thor computer bring to the H2 Plus?

Humanoid behaviour is increasingly driven by large learned models that interpret camera images, plan motion and coordinate many joints at once. Running such models on the robot itself, rather than on a tethered workstation, keeps latency low and lets the machine operate untethered in a real room. The H2 Plus carries the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000, which combines an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU rated at 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI performance with a 14-core Arm CPU and 128GB of unified memory.

Two points matter to a development team. First, unified memory allows large perception and policy models to share one pool rather than being split across separate processors. Second, the configurable 40- to 130-watt power range lets researchers trade computing headroom against battery consumption, which is relevant on a platform whose 0.972kWh battery offers about three hours of life. A group testing a demanding vision-language model may run at the upper end; a group studying long-duration locomotion may prefer the lower setting. Because the computer matches the NVIDIA software stack, policies trained in Isaac Lab can be moved to the robot through Isaac ROS without porting them to unfamiliar hardware.

How do the Sharpa Wave hands change what the H2 Plus can handle?

Many humanoid platforms walk convincingly but grasp crudely, with simple grippers that limit the tasks a researcher can study. The H2 Plus is fitted with dual Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, with 22 active DOF in the hands, bringing the robot to 75 degrees of freedom across body and hands. Tactile sensing gives the control system information about contact that vision alone cannot provide, and the wrist cameras add a close-range view of the object being handled.

Combined with arm torque of up to 120 Newton-meters, this hand arrangement makes the H2 Plus suited to work on dexterous manipulation: tool use, in-hand reorientation, assembly sequences and the handling of everyday objects. The leg torque of up to 360 Newton-meters supports the whole-body motion that such tasks often require, such as bending, reaching or bracing while the hands are occupied.

Who is the Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot for?

The H2 Plus is aimed first at organisations developing humanoid intelligence on the NVIDIA toolchain. University laboratories in robotics, machine learning and human-robot interaction will find a platform whose software environment is already defined, which shortens the path from a student's simulation to a physical trial. Corporate research and development teams evaluating humanoids for future automation can use it to test manipulation and perception approaches on a full-size body before committing to a deployment strategy.

Government innovation programmes and national research centres, which are expanding across the region, may value the reference-design approach as a common base for several teams working in parallel. Systems integrators building demonstrators for clients will appreciate the combination of voice interaction, wide-angle vision and an on-remote emergency stop for supervised showcases.

Buyers whose requirements differ should compare the other configurations in the family, such as the Unitree H2 Plus Standard Humanoid Robot, the Unitree H2 Plus SMART Humanoid Robot and the Unitree H2 EDU SMART D Humanoid Robot. Robots Middle East will confirm the exact contents of each package at quotation, so that the configuration chosen matches the programme it is meant to serve.

What is the Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot used for?

1. Dexterous manipulation research: studying grasping, tool use and in-hand control with tactile five-finger hands.
2. Simulation-to-reality transfer: training policies in Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab and deploying them through Isaac ROS.
3. Foundation model development: running large perception and policy models on the onboard Jetson AGX Thor computer.
4. Whole-body control: coordinating legs, torso and arms during reaching, lifting and balancing tasks.
5. Human-robot interaction: exploring spoken dialogue through the microphone and speaker array.
6. Teaching and demonstration: giving students and visitors hands-on contact with a current humanoid reference design.

Pricing and Availability

The Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot is offered on quotation, because the final package depends on the configuration, accessories and support level each organisation requires. Robots Middle East reviews your intended application and confirms the datasheet figures before issuing a formal offer. Delivery, customs clearance and technical support are arranged together with the quotation. To begin the process, please submit your enquiry through the quotation form available on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the H2 Plus work with the NVIDIA Isaac software stack?

Yes. It is built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform and uses Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for simulation and training, with Isaac ROS middleware for moving trained policies onto the robot.

How many degrees of freedom does the robot have?

The H2 Plus has 31 degrees of freedom across the body and 75 degrees of freedom across body and hands in total, with 22 active DOF in the hands.

What computer runs on board?

The robot carries an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 with an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, a 14-core Arm CPU and 128GB of unified memory, configurable between 40 and 130 watts.

How long does the battery last?

The 15Ah, 0.972kWh battery offers about three hours of life. Actual endurance will depend on the tasks performed and the compute power setting chosen.

What sensors does the H2 Plus use to perceive its surroundings?

It has a head-mounted stereo camera with a 140-degree horizontal and 102-degree vertical field of view, wrist cameras for close-range manipulation and an inertia measurement unit for motion tracking.

How can an operator stop the robot safely?

The H2 Plus includes an on-remote emergency stop function for quickly disengaging the robot. Robots Middle East can advise on supervised operating procedures during commissioning.

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

You can buy it from Robots Middle East, which supplies the robot across the Middle East. The cost depends on the configuration and services selected, and a formal quotation is prepared on request.

Summary

Just as an electronics engineer trusts a reference board to behave as documented, a humanoid research team needs a starting point whose parts already agree with one another. The Unitree H2 Plus Humanoid Robot offers that foundation: a Unitree H2 chassis, tactile Sharpa Wave hands, wide-angle stereo vision, Jetson AGX Thor compute and the NVIDIA Isaac toolchain, assembled into one coherent design. It leaves teams free to concentrate on the behaviour they wish to create. For organisations in the region ready to build on that foundation with Robots Middle East as supplier, this page is the starting point.