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Chinese startup Noetix Robotics has unveiled Bumi, a 94 cm bipedal robot priced under $1,370, aiming to bring humanoid machines into education and home settings.

Following its public debut, official specifications and expert analysis confirm the Unitree H2 features 31 degrees of freedom, including a 3-DOF serial-stack waist, a remotely actuated 'quasi-serial' ankle design, and a 2-DOF neck—a significant re-architecture from the H1.

Unitree has revealed its new flagship humanoid robot, the H2. Standing 1.8 meters tall, the H2 arrives as the larger, more advanced counterpart to the company's affordable R1, fulfilling earlier promises of a two-pronged market strategy.

TIME Magazine has recognized two humanoid robots, the ultra-affordable Unitree R1 and the domestically-focused Figure 03, in its annual Best Inventions list, signaling the growing mainstream relevance of bipedal robotics.

Amazon's latest robotics project, ResMimic, uses a two-stage residual learning framework to efficiently teach humanoids complex loco-manipulation skills. By refining a general motion policy with task-specific corrections, the system enables a Unitree G1 to handle heavy and irregular objects with precision.