World Humanoid Robot Games 2026: results and autonomy rules

The Games were held at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing. The venue is also known as the Ice Ribbon and hosted the inaugural Games in 2025.

Beijing’s official event listing gives the venue address as 2 Lincui Road in Chaoyang District. The 2026 program also extended scenario competition into nine real-world settings around Chaoyang rather than keeping every task inside a simulated hall.

Several figures published during the competition were preliminary. Tianzhuo’s 9.39-second 100 m run came during the opening program. The large-group final was later won by Tianjiao team’s Tiangong Ultra in 8.64 seconds.

Tiangong Ultra also produced the 38.15-second large-group 400 m result. Tiangong Omni won the small group in 45.66 seconds. Tianzhuo won the 1500 m in 2 minutes 21.64 seconds. Beijing’s closing report lists these as major improvements over the 2025 competition records.

The August 13 official rules state that every track race and other competitive event had to be completed fully autonomously except the 100 m obstacle and 400 m obstacle races.

Scenario events used a separate scoring rule. A task completed fully autonomously received a final-score weight of 1 while a remotely controlled completion received 0.5.

These rules still do not support a claim of general autonomy. A robot can satisfy one competition rule with a task-specific controller and still require human intervention or fail when the environment changes.

In the office comprehensive service final, robots had to arrange meeting materials, load and operate a printer, deliver printed documents and feed documents into a shredder. Qianxun Intelligence won with 190 points. Shenzhen Zhiyuan and Ningxia Zhiyuan finished second and third.

Eight dexterous-hand tasks included tool assembly, powder weighing, block building, nail fixing, bottle opening, unpacking, picking beans with tweezers and cable connection.

Beijing reporting on the finals describes teams adjusting perception for lighting changes and choosing between full autonomy and remote control. These tasks expose errors in visual localization, fingertip positioning, force control and recovery that are easy to hide in large-object handling.

The hand finals report identifies four autonomous winners among the eight events, while also describing remote operation. That is why the track-autonomy rule cannot be applied to every hand result.

By August 13, the humanoid robot training and evaluation base at the venue had operated for 30 days and hosted nearly 1,000 training sessions. The organizer’s robot management platform had connected all 666 teams and 2,056 robots.

The system used dedicated encrypted communication links and tracked operational data such as joint temperature, motion state and battery level. The training period remains useful context because teams exposed locomotion, manipulation and scenario-task problems during repeated practice before formal competition began.

Beijing's closing report announced a dataset covering more than 2,500 hours from training and competition, with 12 application settings and 44 operations. It says access will be provided through the organizing committee. This review has not verified a download, license, sensor schema or usable trial-level release; the announcement alone does not supply those details.