NEO vs H2
One has a purchase path today, the other does not
1X NEO
Preorder$20,000
US$20,000 to own with a three-year warranty, or US$499 per month on subscription. A refundable US$200 deposit is due at order; 1X states US deliveries start in 2026.
Preorder · Preorder deposits only. 1X states NEO works autonomously by default, and that for a chore it does not know you can schedule a 1X Expert to guide it remotely.
Unitree H2
Buy now$29,900
US$29,900 excluding tax and shipping. The H2 EDU variant is listed as contact sales.
Buy now · Listed for sale by Unitree.
Where the published data differs
Every line below is computed from the two manufacturers’ own figures. Attributes neither brand publishes are omitted.
- NEO lists at $20,000, $9,900 below H2 at $29,900.
- Payload: NEO 25 kg versus H2 7 kg (257% more). Published data favours NEO.
- Degrees of freedom: NEO 75 versus H2 31 (142% more). Published data favours NEO.
- Weight: H2 70 kg versus NEO 30 kg (133% more).
- Height: H2 182 cm versus NEO 168 cm (8% more).
- Battery capacity: H2 972 Wh versus NEO 842 Wh (15% more). Published data favours H2.
- Hand type: NEO — Tendon-driven, 22 DoF per hand; H2 — Dexterous hand, multiple model options.
- Actuator type: NEO — Low-inertia tendon drives; H2 — Low-inertia internal-rotor PMSM.
Full specification comparison
| Attribute | NEO | H2 |
|---|---|---|
| Height | 168 cm | 182 cm |
| Weight | 30 kg | 70 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | 75 | 31 |
| Payload | 25 kg | 7 kg |
| Runtime | 240 min | Not published |
| Battery capacity | 842 Wh | 972 Wh |
| Max speed | 6.2 m/s | Not published |
| Hand type | Tendon-driven, 22 DoF per hand | Dexterous hand, multiple model options |
| Actuator type | Low-inertia tendon drives | Low-inertia internal-rotor PMSM |
| Hot-swap battery | Not published by either | Not published by either |
| Onboard compute | 1X NEO Cortex (Nvidia Jetson Thor), up to 2070 FP4 TFLOPS | 2070 TOPS |
| Sensors | Dual 8.85 MP 90 Hz stereo fisheye cameras, 4 beamforming microphones | Wide field of view binocular camera |
| IP rating | Body IP44, hands IP68 | Not published |
| Operating temperature | Not published by either | Not published by either |
| Teleoperation supported | Yes | Not published |
| SDK / secondary development | Not published by either | Not published by either |
| Warranty | 36 months | Not published |