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.
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. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
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
- Prototype
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- April 2025
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 180 cm
- Weight
- 52 kg
- 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
Competition and demonstration version; won the first humanoid half marathon in Beijing in April 2025 and track events at the World Humanoid Robot Games in August 2025.
What stands out
- Half marathon winner, 2:40:42, April 2025
- Track wins at 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games
Autonomy, observed
Completed the 21.1 km Beijing E-Town humanoid half marathon in 2 h 40 min 42 s on 19 April 2025.
A human pacer ran alongside during the half marathon; batteries were swapped during the race.
Price and volume
Not for sale.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Tiangong Ultra sits at #87 of 107 with 18 points: deployment 0/50, autonomy 18/30, availability 0/20. See that method.
How long does a humanoid robot actually run
22 of 182 humanoids on record quote a runtime. The claims run from 1 to 8 hours with a median of 4, and of the 44 machines you can order, 4 say anything at all.
Humanoid races, games and fights: what the competitions proved
Our record holds 11 competition events from 1997 to 2025 and 17 machines tied to them. Six can be ordered, three at a public price, and 13 of the 17 carry a teleoperation flag of yes or partial.
What humanoid robots can actually do in 2026
Of 182 humanoid robots on record, 117 have a human in the loop, 33 have ever worked at a customer site and none has a verified fleet count. Here is what that leaves.
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 2.0
Tiangong 2.0 is the 2025 update of the Beijing open humanoid platform, released together with the Huisi Kaiwu software stack.
Sources
- 01X-Humanoid official siteX-Humanoid
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