LimX Oli vs Unitree H1

LimX Oli is a pre-order, 165 cm, 55 kg, 31-DoF biped research humanoid from LimX Dynamics, priced from RMB 158,000 (~$21,800). It has dual Intel RealSense depth cameras, a 6-axis IMU, modular design and slide-out battery, but no official payload, runtime, battery capacity or walking speed. The strongest public evidence is a secondary research summary reporting stair climbing of a 33-step spiral staircase in 12 seconds with zero falls, and benchmark returns of 0.85 for velocity tracking. Official video titles claim fully autonomous tennis ball picking and scalable autonomous deployment, but no transcripts or independent verification were found. No named customer deployment exists

The Unitree H1 is a full-size bipedal humanoid (about 180 cm, about 47 kg, 18 DoF by Unitree's per-limb counts, 864 Wh swappable battery) sold mainly to research labs through quote-based sales: Unitree's store shows a $90,000 'contact us' anchor and a European distributor lists it from EUR 93,496 excluding VAT. Its strongest public evidence is locomotion and spectacle, including a company-claimed 3.3 m/s record, 1500 m and 400 m golds at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games (6:34.40 and 1:28.03) and a second source crediting four track golds, a choreographed 16-robot national broadcast performance, and a company-claimed 10.1 m/s peak from a modified ~62 kg unit. Manipulation is weak: the stock robot ships without hands and with 4-DoF arms, and the manipulation literature (Stanford HumanPlus, CMU H2O) used heavily modified units. Unitree publishes no payload, runtime, failure-rate or deployment metrics; autonomy is asserted for walking and running only; third-party runtime figures conflict (1 h versus 2 h) and no independent benchmark or safety certification exists