Following its victory in the 2025 humanoid robot marathon, X-Humanoid again took the top spot, establishing itself as a dual-title winner. As the only full-size robot in the competition, Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 outperformed more agile small humanoid robots, marking a critical leap from basic locomotion to real-world operational capability.

During the event, X-Humanoid not only fielded four teams of its own, but also worked with joint laboratory teams from several universities, including Hunan University and Renmin University of China. Through the open interface provided by X-Humanoid, the teams carried out further development based on Embodied Tien Kung 3.0's developer accessibility, reduced sim-to-real gap, high performance potential, and ease of tuning. Together, they generated validation data and repeatable development approaches for scaling robotic deployment in post-earthquake recovery, chemical operations, firefighting, and other high-risk scenarios.

A Hard-Core Victory in Full Autonomy: From Passive Execution to Active Decision-Making

The competition course closely mirrored real disaster environments, including unstructured terrain, dynamic obstacles, fine manipulation, and high-impact motion challenges. Most participating robots still required manual remote assistance, preset routes, or on-site intervention, while Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 operated fully autonomously, powered by its proprietary "Wise KaiWu" embodied intelligence platform, achieving closed-loop operation across perception, planning, control, and fault recovery, with no human intervention, no remote control, and no preset scripts.

Four Core Technologies: The Embodied-Intelligence Strength Behind the Championship

• Embodied Hierarchical Control Architecture: Deep Integration of Cognitive Decision-Making and Motion Execution

Based on the "Wise KaiWu" platform's coordinated architecture, the high-level autonomy stack is responsible for environmental understanding and task decision-making, while the low-level control layer handles motion generation and real-time execution. Through high-speed, low-latency communication, the two operate in a closed loop, translating high-level decisions into stable, precise, human-like full-body motion. This enables fully autonomous, continuous, and robust operation in unstructured, high-disturbance, multi-task environments, eliminating reliance on pre-programmed behaviors and human intervention, and enabling real-time translation of decision-making into precise, goal-directed motion.

• Multimodal Terrain Perception and Environmental Understanding: Centimeter-Level Modeling, Millisecond-Level Response

Faced with complex environments, Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 uses an end-to-end perception-to-motion model, integrating multimodal sensor input and directly learning motion decision-making and control strategies from raw observations, enabling a unified pipeline from perception to action.

• Precise Foot Placement and Integrated Autonomous Decision-Making and Planning: Global Optimization with Step-by-Step Control

Based on an integrated architecture combining global semantic path planning with local foot placement optimization, the robot manages both path-level decisions and real-time step execution, coordinating body posture and joint motion under complex constraints to ensure stable and continuous traversal in narrow passages and dynamic environments.

• Highly Dynamic Full-Body Motion Control: Stable, Continuous, and Highly Resistant to Disturbance

With an integrated stand-walk-run control framework driven by reinforcement learning and imitation techniques, Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 delivers smooth, stable movement across continuous obstacles, with strong disturbance resistance and posture recovery. The team was also among the first in the industry to achieve highly dynamic full-body motion control during physical interaction, enabling the robot to maintain coordination and stability under direct contact with the environment, and significantly expanding its operational capability in complex scenarios.

Accelerating Deployment in High-Risk Scenarios: From Competition Champion to Industry Pioneer

The Robot Warrior Challenge was modeled on real rescue and hazardous-operation scenarios, testing performance in earthquake debris, chemical hazard environments, and collapsed structures. X-Humanoid focuses on fully autonomous systems designed for real-world use, and through open hardware/software interfaces, development tools, and shared code frameworks, continues to reduce barriers to development and deployment. This breakthrough not only extends the use of these systems into emergency response and hazardous operations, but also provides mature, transferable solutions for industrial manufacturing, logistics, and commercial services, supporting deployment across a broad range of real-world environments and use cases, and accelerating the transition of embodied intelligence from controlled testing to practical, real-world operation.

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Additionally, Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 addresses compatibility and adaptation challenges across the embodied intelligence industry's development and deployment layers. It offers more accessible software and hardware interfaces, helping to reduce development costs and technical barriers for developers and system integrators. As a next-generation platform that balances practical performance with an open ecosystem, Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 is designed to accelerate real-world adoption of embodied intelligence, facilitate the integration of humanoid robots into commercial and industrial environments, and improve operational productivity.

Enhanced Openness: Accelerating Development and Simplifying Integration

The humanoid robotics sector currently faces two key challenges in development and application: first, closed hardware interfaces limit rapid adaptation to different operating environments; second, fragmented software tools and incompatible protocols result in redundant R&D, slowing commercial deployment and innovation. Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 addresses these barriers by emphasizing openness and interoperability, enabling research institutions, universities, and companies to develop and adapt solutions more efficiently.

First, on the hardware level, Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 Features multiple expansion interfaces that support flexible integration of various end-effectors and tools. This enables rapid adaptation to diverse scenarios—including specialized operations, industrial manufacturing, and commercial services—while ensuring seamless connectivity with mainstream industry systems.On the software side, the platform, built on the Wise KaiWu ecosystem, offers comprehensive documentation, toolchains, and a low-code development environment. It simplifies complex technical processes into user-friendly workflows and supports widely adopted communication middleware and protocols, including ROS2, MQTT, and TCP/IP. Partners can perform use-case-specific customization without reengineering underlying systems, shortening development cycles and reducing complexity.

To date, X-Humanoid has open-sourced key technologies from its Embodied Tien Kung and Wise KaiWu platforms. These include the robot body, motion control framework, world model, embodied VLM and cross-ontology VLA models, training toolchains, the RoboMIND dataset, and the ArtVIP simulation asset library. By expanding access to these components, an open-source ecosystem helps accelerate the iteration and deployment of humanoid robotics, lower technical barriers, and allows companies, academics, and researchers to develop applications more efficiently. This approach enables humanoid robots to meet a range of industry needs and supports scalable, multi-use implementation.

Improved Usability: Enabled by Wise KaiWu for General-Purpose Deployment

Ease of use remains a central focus for X-Humanoid. This is enabled by two core capabilities: advanced body performance and embodied intelligence, which together allow the robot to perform reliably in real-world tasks.

In terms of physical performance, Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 incorporates high-torque integrated joints that provide strong limb force for high-load applications. Even on uneven terrain or in cluttered environments, sufficient torque output maintains stability, ensuring consistent operation across varying operating conditions. With its high degree of freedom and whole-body coordination control, the robot can execute complex motions such as clearing one-meter obstacles and performing consecutive high-dynamic maneuvers. A flexible torso and wide upper-limb range of motion also make possible dexterous operations—including kneeling, bending, and turning—while maintaining precision in confined spaces or restricted postures.

Moreover, through multi-degree-of-freedom limb coordination, Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 achieves precise joint linkage and fine motion adjustment. Collaborative calibration delivers millimeter-level operational accuracy, meeting use cases that require industrial-grade precision while minimizing errors and ensuring task quality. These capabilities strengthen the robot's versatility and extend its practical utility in complex environments.

Underlying this advanced body is the Wise KaiWu universal embodied AI platform, which allows Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 to operate with greater autonomy. The platform establishes a continuous perception–decision–execution loop, reducing reliance on remote control and human intervention, while driving a shift from single-unit operation to multi-robot collaboration. For high-level cognition—addressing "what" and "why"—the system uses AI models such as the world model and VLM to interpret visual scenes, understand language instructions, perform reasoning, and break complex tasks into step-by-step plans. For real-time control, the VLA model and full autonomous navigation manage environmental perception, obstacle avoidance, and precise action execution, ensuring stable performance under variable conditions. Finally, the multi-agent collaborative system built on Wise KaiWu provides cross-platform compatibility and asynchronous task coordination with autonomous scheduling. This centralized, multi-robot, multi-function architecture marks the transition of embodied intelligence from research to practical application, providing a scalable and repeatable pathway for real-world deployment.

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Founded in November 2023, Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics Co., Ltd. is a technology company specializing in embodied intelligence and humanoid robotics. The company focuses on the research, development, and application of next-generation intelligent robots that integrate artificial intelligence, motion control, and human–robot interaction.

X-Humanoid, steadfast in its mission to make embodied intelligence fully autonomous and more practical, presented its robots' self-directed operational capabilities through live on-site demos, showcasing how its robotics development is increasingly oriented toward deployable, more useful systems to a global audience.

To ensure robots that are capable and skilled at real-world tasks, X-Humanoid has developed two core platforms:

• Embodied Tien Kung: a universal robotics platform, which provides an industrial-grade robot body engineered for long endurance, high payload capacity, and coordinated bimanual operation.
• Wise KaiWu: a universal embodied AI platform, which integrates cognitive and physical systems to form a closed-loop system encompassing perception, decision-making, and execution, paving the way for embodied robots to achieve full autonomy and broader real-world applicability.

During the live demonstrations, Embodied Tien Kung 2.0 performed fully autonomous parts sorting and interacted with visitors, offering a direct, hands-on view of its fast, accurate, and resilient operation.

Powered by X-Humanoid's proprietary cross-ontology Base Model VLA XR-1, the robot autonomously and smoothly performed a complete workflow of grasping, sorting, and placing components. It consistently adapted to variables such as changing object positions, environmental changes outside the conveyor zone, and spatial adjustments, demonstrating strong generalization. Its performance highlights three key strengths:

• Fast: Using the proprietary UVMC (Unified Vision-Motion Codes) technology, the robot builds a direct bridge between visual perception and physical action, transforming what it sees into instinctive physical responses—analogous to human reflexes—to handle unexpected situations with minimal latency in sorting scenarios.
• Accurate: With a high-frequency control capability exceeding 60 Hz, it converts visual data into smooth, precise motion commands in real time, enabling high-speed dynamic grasping and closing the gap between seeing and doing.
• Resilient: It demonstrates robust bimanual coordination. If the right arm misses a part, the left arm immediately steps in to complete the grasp, ensuring continuous operation and operational consistency in sorting tasks.

X-Humanoid has deployed its solutions with partners across sectors, focusing on high-risk, high-intensity, and repetitive labor scenarios. For example, Embodied Tien Kung 2.0 and Tian Yi 2.0 are now operating on the unmanned production line at a Foton Cummins engine plant. There, they autonomously handle bin pickup, transport, and placement, adapting to various shelf heights and container types—marking a successful transition from controlled testing environments to live industrial production.

In addition, the company(X-Humanoid) has implemented humanoid robots for high-risk power grid inspections in collaboration with the China Electric Power Research Institute, and partnered with the Li-Ning Sports Science Laboratory to conduct long-duration, high-intensity athletic shoe testing using humanoid robots. Recently, X-Humanoid also entered into an agreement with Bayer to jointly further the development of humanoid robotics and embodied intelligence technologies for applications in solid pharmaceutical manufacturing, packaging, quality control, warehousing, and logistics.

Also on display was the Embodied Tien Kung Ultra, which showcased exceptional stability and mobility during extended running demonstrations. It is the world's first champion of humanoid robot to complete a half-marathon (21.0975 km) fully autonomously without remote control, finishing in 2:40:42. Additionally, it is the first humanoid robot to run 100 meters autonomously in 21.50 seconds, winning the first-ever humanoid robot games. These extreme endurance and sprint tests validate the platform's stability, durability, and autonomous capability, laying a foundation for long-term, stable, and independent operation in real-world environments.

The Embodied Tien Kung 2.0 further demonstrates embodied intelligence's interactive capabilities, including serving as a host at the World Robot Conference 2025 and deploying one of the earliest fully autonomous guided tour solutions at scale in unmanned exhibition halls. Enhanced by the Wise Kaiwu platform, it recognizes and responds in multiple languages and can coordinate a fleet of robots through an intelligent multi-agent dispatch system. This progress supports future applications in consultation, tour guiding, and other service and operational scenarios.

X-Humanoid's participation at CES 2026 represents a focused presentation of its core mission—building robots that are truly capable and skilled at real-world tasks. From extreme environment testing to industrial validation, and from key technological breakthroughs to open ecosystem development, X-Humanoid remains dedicated to creating measurable, application-driven value across industries.

As 2026 marks a pivotal year for embodied intelligence moving from demonstration to scaled adoption, the company used the global stage of CES to interpret the Smarter AI for All theme, articulate its philosophy of embodied intelligence empowering all industries to an international audience, and drive the entire industry forward.

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