Unitree H2-X specs: 170cm, 31 DOF, 8-hour battery; Stanford's ToddlerBot costs under $6,000
2C_ornot2C · x · 2026-10-22
A technical breakdown of Unitree's new humanoid H2-X (Kung Fu Legend Guardian):
- Size: 170cm tall, 65kg (booth panel specs)
- DOF: 31 total — 6 per leg, 7 per arm, 3 waist, 2 head (reported for the H2, not independently confirmed for H2-X)
- Battery: advertised 8 hours endurance, though runtime under intense movement is unpublished; two battery modules visible on the back, capacity undisclosed
The thread also cites Stanford's ToddlerBot as a counterpoint: a 0.56m, 3.4kg humanoid from Haochen Shi, Weizhuo Wang, Shuran Song and C. Karen Liu's lab, built as a cheap, reproducible robot-learning platform — full hardware under $6,000, 30 active DOF, 3D-printed structure (21 min printing + 14 min assembly for a full repair), Jetson Orin NX 16GB, dual fisheye cameras, IMU, mics and speaker, with a documented sim-to-real pipeline.
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