Unitree H1 shifts gait in marathon prep

The interesting part here isn’t top speed, it’s control. Smoothly transitioning from jogging to running is a hard locomotion problem, and this video suggests Unitree is tightening the H1’s gait planning for endurance, not just stunt demos.

• –Beijing’s humanoid half-marathon is becoming a real proving ground for legged robots, and H1 looks like one of the more serious entrants
• –Gait transitions matter more than raw sprint numbers because they reveal how stable the control stack is across changing speeds
• –Unitree keeps pushing H1 as a practical humanoid platform, which helps separate it from the many robots that only look impressive in short clips
• –If the pace control is reliable over distance, the next bottleneck is likely battery, thermal limits, and recovery after bad footfalls