Tiangong 2.0
Tiangong 2.0 is the 2025 update of the Beijing open humanoid platform, released together with the Huisi Kaiwu software stack.
We have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. Treat the score as a starting point, not a recommendation.
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Commercial
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- March 2025
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- partial
Where it stands
Second version released 2025 with improved actuators and the Huisi Kaiwu embodied AI platform.
Hands, sensors, brain
- AI stack: Huisi Kaiwu embodied intelligence platform
Open source
Hardware or software published under an open licence.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Tiangong 2.0 sits at #47 of 107 with 40 points: deployment 14/50, autonomy 12/30, availability 14/20. See that method.
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
Open-source humanoids: what you can actually build
24 of the 182 humanoids on record call themselves open source. 15 publish hardware files and software, 3 name a licence, 12 can be ordered, and none of the four on preorder has any autonomy evidence yet.
Startups, automakers, universities: who builds humanoids
108 makers, nine kinds. Startups hold 37 of the 44 humanoids you can order. Automakers, universities, big tech, conglomerates and NASA hold 45 robots between them and sell none of them.
Other robots by X-Humanoid (Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center).
Tiangong 1.0
Tiangong was presented as the first full-size electric humanoid able to run, and released as an open platform by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center in April 2024.
Tiangong Ultra
Tiangong Ultra is the athletic version of Tiangong that won the world's first humanoid half marathon in Beijing in April 2025, then took track medals at the August 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games.
Sources
- 01X-Humanoid official siteX-Humanoid
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