{"id":"426bf816-82b1-41fc-bb81-7702861eb2c5","companyId":"6b2a6bfd-6402-4dec-9296-266191e1c297","modelName":"Tiangong (Tien Kung)","slug":"tiangong","description":"X-Humanoid, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, is a state-backed provincial innovation center established on November 2, 2023 in Beijing's Yizhuang zone, owned roughly 28.57 percent each by Beijing Jingcheng Machinery Electric, Xiaomi Robotics, and UBTech, with the remaining 14.29 percent held by Yizhuang state holdings and general manager Xiong Youjun, who is also UBTech's CTO. It develops Tiangong (Tien Kung), an open bipedal humanoid reference platform: the Tiangong Ultra version, at about 180 cm and 52 to 55 kg with a peak speed near 12 km/h, won the world's first humanoid half-marathon in Beijing on April 19, 2025 in 2 hours 40 minutes, and the Tien Kung 3.0 generation from February 2026 adds full-body tactile control on the genuinely open-sourced Huisi Kaiwu embodied-AI platform, which includes the RoboMIND dataset, the ArtVIP asset library, and vision-language-action models. The center raised more than 700 million yuan, about $100 million, in a first round closed February 3, 2026 with Baidu and state funds. The registry records it as a research platform with an emerging pilot and early-commercial robotics-as-a-service track, since its verifiable identity is a state-backed open reference platform aiming to be the Android of Chinese humanoids, and although Caixin confirms a 1,000th customized unit, a dedicated pilot-verification facility, and JD.com sales, that commercialization is platform-led and state-subsidized rather than arm's-length product sales at scale. The marathon's beat-the-humans framing is misleading because Tiangong Ultra needed three battery swaps, ran with a human pacer it imitated, and fell once.","formFactor":"humanoid","maturityStage":"research","lifecycleState":"active","supersededByModelId":null,"specs":{"notes":[{"label":"Verified","value":"X-Humanoid (Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center; established Nov 2 2023, Yizhuang/E-Town) is a state-backed innovation center, owned ~28.57% each by Beijing Jingcheng Machinery Electric, Xiaomi Robotics, and UBTech, plus 14.29% Yizhuang state holdings; GM Xiong Youjun (UBTech CTO). Raised >700M yuan (~$100M) first round closed Feb 3 2026 (Baidu + state funds). The Huisi Kaiwu open platform is genuinely open-sourced (RoboMIND dataset, ArtVIP, VLA models)."},{"label":"Maturity = research platform (emerging RaaS)","value":"Tien Kung is fundamentally a state-backed open research/reference platform (the stated aim: be the 'Android' of Chinese humanoids). That is its primary verifiable identity. Caixin-verified commercialization is real but platform-led/state-subsidized: 1,000th customized unit (Jan 2026), a 9,700 sq m pilot-verification facility, JD.com sales at 299k-779k yuan. maturityStage=research with a noted pilot/early-commercial RaaS track."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"The 'robot beat humans' marathon framing is misleading: Tiangong Ultra needed 3 battery swaps, ran with a human pacer it imitated, and fell once; the 2h40m time is real but not a like-for-like human result. A separate ~1h15m finish belongs to the DIFFERENT 2026 race (do not merge). End-customers behind the '1,000th unit' are not individually named; Tien Kung 3.0 autonomy/tactile claims are demo-stage."}],"specs":"Tiangong / Tien Kung: open bipedal humanoid; Tiangong Ultra (~180 cm, ~52-55 kg, peak ~12 km/h, the marathon robot); Tien Kung 3.0 (Feb 2026) adds full-body tactile control on the 'Huisi Kaiwu' (Wise KaiWu) open embodied-AI platform","formFactor":"humanoid (open bipedal humanoid research/reference platform; state-backed)"},"manufacturerSerial":null,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-04-19/-Tiangong-Ultra-wins-world-s-first-ever-humanoid-robot-half-marathon-1CHdanwJVzG/p.html","title":"Tiangong Ultra wins world's first humanoid half-marathon, Beijing (Apr 19 2025; 2h40m42s)","sourceName":"CGTN"},{"url":"https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3307165/chinas-humanoid-robot-half-marathon-winner-wants-be-android-robotics","title":"X-Humanoid ownership (Jingcheng/Xiaomi/UBTech/Yizhuang); 'Android of robotics' strategy","sourceName":"South China Morning Post"},{"url":"https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-02-04/beijing-humanoid-robotics-hub-raises-100-million-in-first-funding-round-102411145.html","title":"Beijing Humanoid Robotics hub raises ~$100M (Baidu + state funds); 1,000th unit; JD.com sales","sourceName":"Caixin Global"},{"url":"https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/news/2026/02/16/x-humanoid-introduces-embodied-tien-kung-30-a-more-open-and-practical-humanoid-platform/26148/","title":"X-Humanoid introduces Tien Kung 3.0 + open 'Huisi Kaiwu' platform (RoboMIND, ArtVIP, VLA)","sourceName":"RoboticsTomorrow"},{"url":"https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/21/robots-run-a-half-marathon-slowly/","title":"Marathon caveats: battery swaps, human pacer, a fall (skeptical context)","sourceName":"TechCrunch"}],"aliases":["Tien Kung","Tiangong Ultra","Tien Kung 3.0"],"collisionRisk":"low","reviewNote":null,"manufacturerTermForTeleop":null,"createdAt":"2026-06-03T19:23:30.163Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-03T19:23:30.163Z","jsonLd":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Product","@id":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/tiangong","url":"https://registry.deploy.report/models/tiangong","name":"Tiangong (Tien Kung)","alternateName":["Tien Kung","Tiangong Ultra","Tien Kung 3.0"],"description":"X-Humanoid, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, is a state-backed provincial innovation center established on November 2, 2023 in Beijing's Yizhuang zone, owned roughly 28.57 percent each by Beijing Jingcheng Machinery Electric, Xiaomi Robotics, and UBTech, with the remaining 14.29 percent held by Yizhuang state holdings and general manager Xiong Youjun, who is also UBTech's CTO. It develops Tiangong (Tien Kung), an open bipedal humanoid reference platform: the Tiangong Ultra version, at about 180 cm and 52 to 55 kg with a peak speed near 12 km/h, won the world's first humanoid half-marathon in Beijing on April 19, 2025 in 2 hours 40 minutes, and the Tien Kung 3.0 generation from February 2026 adds full-body tactile control on the genuinely open-sourced Huisi Kaiwu embodied-AI platform, which includes the RoboMIND dataset, the ArtVIP asset library, and vision-language-action models. The center raised more than 700 million yuan, about $100 million, in a first round closed February 3, 2026 with Baidu and state funds. The registry records it as a research platform with an emerging pilot and early-commercial robotics-as-a-service track, since its verifiable identity is a state-backed open reference platform aiming to be the Android of Chinese humanoids, and although Caixin confirms a 1,000th customized unit, a dedicated pilot-verification facility, and JD.com sales, that commercialization is platform-led and state-subsidized rather than arm's-length product sales at scale. The marathon's beat-the-humans framing is misleading because Tiangong Ultra needed three battery swaps, ran with a human pacer it imitated, and fell once.","identifier":"426bf816-82b1-41fc-bb81-7702861eb2c5","category":"humanoid","publisher":{"@id":"https://deploy.report/#organization"}}}