Unitree Robotics has announced the H2 Plus, a humanoid robot reference design built on NVIDIA’s Isaac GR00T development platform. The system combines Unitree’s H2 humanoid robot, Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, NVIDIA Jetson Thor onboard compute and NVIDIA’s Isaac GR00T software stack for humanoid robot development.
The launch positions H2 Plus as a research platform for developers working on general-purpose humanoid robots. According to Unitree, the system is intended to give academic and research teams an integrated starting point for data collection, simulation, training, evaluation and deployment. The company presents the reference design as a way to reduce the fragmented development process that often surrounds humanoid robotics, where teams have to combine hardware, sensing, control systems, compute and software pipelines themselves.
The H2 Plus is based on the Unitree H2 humanoid chassis. The robot stands nearly six feet tall, weighs around 150 pounds and has 31 degrees of freedom across the body. With two Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, the total number of degrees of freedom rises to 75 across body and hands. The robot includes a head-mounted stereo camera, wrist cameras for close-range manipulation and an inertial measurement unit for motion tracking.
For manipulation and whole-body control, the system offers arm torque of up to 120 Newton-metres and leg torque of up to 360 Newton-metres. Unitree states that the robot has a rated arm payload of 7 kilograms and a peak payload of 15 kilograms. The platform also includes a remote emergency stop function.
The onboard compute is provided by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000, which includes a Blackwell GPU, a 14-core Arm CPU and 128GB of unified memory. The system is designed to support real-time sensor processing, robot inference and control. Connectivity includes Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, USB, microphones and speakers. Unitree states that the battery has a capacity of 15Ah, or 0.972kWh, with an estimated life of about three hours.
The software side is based on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T. The platform includes tools for teleoperation, simulation, training, evaluation and deployment. Isaac Teleop is used for capturing robot demonstration data, while Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab support simulation and policy training. NVIDIA Isaac ROS is used to move trained policies onto robots, and Jetson Thor runs inference and control on the robot itself.
NVIDIA is also extending the Isaac GR00T developer platform to Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot. This is relevant because the G1 has been positioned as a lower-cost humanoid platform for research and development. By supporting both H2 Plus and G1, NVIDIA and Unitree are aiming to give researchers access to a more standardised development environment across different hardware configurations.
The announcement comes as Unitree is preparing for a planned listing on Shanghai’s STAR Market. Recent IPO-related disclosures show that the company is still growing, but at a slower pace than before. Revenue increased strongly in 2025, but growth moderated in the first quarter of 2026. At the same time, adjusted net profit fell sharply year on year, mainly because of higher research, development, sales and other operating expenses.
That context makes the H2 Plus launch significant beyond the product itself. Unitree is operating in a market where humanoid robotics attracts strong investor and government interest, but where commercial adoption is still developing. Research platforms such as H2 Plus can help accelerate software development and validation, but they do not by themselves prove large-scale commercial demand.
