# N Nvidia is working with China's Unitree to provide a standardized version of its humanoid robot.

*robotics · news · 2026-06-01 · Reuters*

## Key points

- Nvidia is partnering with China's Unitree and Sharpa to offer a standardized H2 humanoid research robot.
- Researchers at Stanford and UC San Diego plan to use robots with Nvidia's integrated computing and security.
- Nvidia's security features will require all robot software updates to be authenticated via its chips.
- U.S. lawmakers propose banning Unitree robots for federally funded researchers over alleged Chinese government ties.
- Nvidia plans similar robotics partnerships outside China but hasn't publicly disclosed specific firms.

After CEO Jensen Huang's ‌keynote address in Taiwan on Monday ahead of the Computex trade show, Nvidia announced that the company is working with China's Unitree, a leading maker of humanoid robots, to provide a standardized ​version of Unitree's H2 robot that can be used by academic researchers. Sign up here. The robot's ​body will come from Unitree, its hands will come from Singapore-headquartered Sharpa, ⁠and the computing brains of the device will come from Nvidia. Nvidia said ​that researchers at Stanford University and the University of California San Diego, among others, plan ​to use the machines. Unitree, whose dancing robots were the centerpiece of China's Spring Festival gala earlier this year, is pursuing a public listing in China. But U.S. lawmakers have alleged that Unitree has extensive ties to ​the Chinese government and military and have introduced a bill that would ban use of ​the firm's robots by researchers who receive U.S. government funding. Nvidia executives told Reuters that the company plans ‌to ⁠pursue more efforts like the Unitree one with robotics firms outside China. They did not name the partners in the U.S., South Korea and Europe and spoke on condition of anonymity as the plans are not public. The Nvidia executives said the work with ​Unitree is aimed at ​improving the cybersecurity of ⁠the Unitree robots for researchers. For example, any software updates meant for the robot's subsystems will have to flow through Nvidia's ​chip, where the code can be checked for authenticity. By directly integrating ​Nvidia's 'Blackwell' chips ⁠with Unitree's robot bodies, Nvidia, which plans to use the machines in its own research, will bring the same security features that it uses to protect data center servers, the ⁠executives ​said. Those security technologies, known as secure boot and confidential ​computing, are aimed at ensuring the robots cannot run malicious code and that sensitive data cannot be moved ​off the robots without permission. Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Francisco; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman

**Companies:** Nvidia, Unitree
**Countries:** China, Singapore, United States

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