China's Humanoid Robot That Actually Gets Things Done, Tien-Kung, Steals the Show at CES 2026!

Under the watchful eyesof the crowd, a white humanoid robot standing approximately 1.73 meters tall was fully focused on getting work done—grasping, sorting, and stacking objects in onesmooth sequence, with fluid and efficient movements...

Meanwhile, amid thecheers of spectators, a running "athlete" quickly drew a crowd of itsown.

Not only that, its ability to bow gracefully with silky-smooth body coordination had attendees eagerly snapping photos to capturethe moment.

This scene unfolded at thebooth of X-Humanoid (Beijing Innovation Center ofHumanoid Robotics) at CES 2026, which recently opened in Las Vegas. An array offuturistic humanoid robots brought a vibrant "tasteof tomorrow" to the show.

On-site, our team observed that CES 2026 has broughttogether major global tech giants, showcasing concentrated displays around AIchips, humanoid robots, embodied intelligence, smart terminals, and more.

Among them, Chinesecompany X-Humanoid—whosecore technological mission revolves around building robots that "can work and know how to work"—made its CES debut, bringing star products including Tien-Kung 2.0 and Tien-KungUltra to thespotlight. With their fully autonomous operation capabilities and breakthroughmotion control technology, they became a focal point of the humanoid roboticstrack at this year's "Tech Super Bowl."

So what exactly makes X-Humanoid's booth so captivating?Let's take a closer look.

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1. Making Its Debut, All-ScenarioPerformance Stuns the Show

At this year's CES, embodied intelligence has emerged as the absolute centerpiece, withChinese companies' collective showing drawing global attention. Among them, X-Humanoid has zeroed in on the core need of "robots doing real work." Through its self-developed "Huisi Kaiwu" universal embodied intelligenceplatform, the company delivered an impressive demonstration of the synergisticadvantages of its "one brain, multiplerobots; one brain, multiple capabilities" architecture—a coordinatedembodied AI system featuring both large and small brain components. Thisenables their robots to truly achieve fullyautonomous, highly efficient, and high-intensity work capabilities,using technological breakthroughs to define what it means to be a robot that "can work and knows how to work."

At the show, X-Humanoid set up multi-dimensional interactive demonstration zones,with three core scenarios fully covering both extreme athletic challengesand real-world industrial applications, givingattendees an immersive experience of the evolutionary achievements in embodiedintelligence.

As the world's first humanoidrobot half-marathon champion and history's first 100-meter "speedster," Tien-Kung Ultra showcasedits athletic control capabilities at CES. This robot previously completed a 21.0975-kilometer half-marathon in 2 hours, 40 minutes, and 42 seconds—fully autonomously, without remote control—and claimedthe title of the world's first humanoid robot 100-meter sprint champion with atime of 21.50 seconds.

The extended running demonstration atthe show floor thoroughly validated the stability, endurance, anddecision-making capabilities of its platform structure, laying acrucial foundation for future humanoid robots to perform long-duration tasks inreal-world environments.

Meanwhile, Tien-Kung 2.0 deliveredon-site demonstrations of interaction, dancing, and patrol tasks,showcasing its broad potential in the commercial service sector.

 

Notably, this robot served as a host at the 2025 World Robot Conference andsuccessfully deployed China's first fully autonomous,unmanned exhibition hall guidance solution. Powered by the "Huisi Kaiwu" platform, it can perform multilingual voice recognition and real-time Q&A,and through a multi-agent scheduling mechanism, autonomouslycoordinate multiple units working in tandem. This provides technologicalsupport for scenarios such as information services,guided tours, and commercial reception, enabling robots toseamlessly integrate into real-world service environments.

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2. Fast! Precise! Powerful! Robots Transforminto the Ultimate Workforce

Beyond running and dancingat the booth, X-Humanoid's robot products at the show also demonstrated anothercapability that both industry insiders and the public care deeply about: actually doing work.

In the industrial application demonstration area, Tien-Kung 2.0 Pro—powered by the embodied VLA (Vision-Language-Action) capabilities of the "HuisiKaiwu" platform—transformed into the "ultimate workforce," showcasing fully autonomous parts sorting tasks. It achieveda complete intelligent closed loop from "understanding" to "taking action," marking embodiedintelligence's entry into a new phase of being "fullyautonomous and more practical."

 

On-site, our teamexperienced firsthand the robot's "fast,precise, and powerful" work characteristics: Powered by X-Humanoid'sproprietary UVMC (UnifiedVision-Motor-Control) technology—a multimodal vision-actionunified representation system—the humanoid robot can instantly convert visualinformation into instinctive physical responses, flexibly handling unexpectedsituations during sorting tasks. Its high-frequencycontrol capability exceeding 60 Hz breaks down the barrier between "seeing" and "doing," enabling high-speed dynamic precision grasping. Theexcellent dual-arm collaborationmechanism allows the robotto immediately compensate when one arm makes an error, ensuring continuous and reliable task execution.

This fully autonomous, highly generalizable sorting capability can flexibly adapt tomulti-dimensional variations including object poses, background environments,and spatial positions, providing efficient solutions for high-intensity, repetitive operation scenarios such as industrialmanufacturing and logistics sorting.

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3. Full-Stack In-House R&D PowersSeamless Real-World Deployment

The core competitive advantage of the products exhibited stemsfrom two platforms X-Humanoid developed in 2025: the "Tien-Kung" universal robot platform and the world's first universal embodied intelligence platform,"Huisi Kaiwu"—together covering both the hardware and software of embodied intelligence.

The embodied intelligenceindustry is currently still in its earlydevelopment stage, with an urgent need for universalintelligent platforms that offer multi-platformcompatibility and multi-scenarioadaptability. The "Tien-Kung"platform has createdmultiple universal robot platforms with different configurations, including Tien-Kung 2.0 and Tianyi2.0, providing core hardware support for a wide range ofreal-world application scenarios including industrialmanufacturing, special operations, and commercial services.

 

Meanwhile, "Huisi Kaiwu" consists of an AI largemodel-driven task planning "large brain" and a data-driven end-to-endskill execution "small brain," fundamentally disrupting thetraditional robot development model of single-scenario, single-taskspecialization. It achieves the core breakthrough of "one brain, multiple robots; one brain, multiplecapabilities," propelling intelligent robots from passiveexecution to autonomous decision-making incomplex environments.

X-Humanoid told us thatfrom extreme environment testing to industrialscenario validation, from keytechnological breakthroughs to open-sourceecosystem development, the company has always focused onenabling robots to create real value for industries.Currently, X-Humanoid has launched application deployments with partners acrossvarious sectors, including Foton Cummins, China ElectricPower Research Institute, Li-Ning Sports Science Laboratory, and Bayer,with a focus on high-risk, high-intensity, andrepetitive labor scenarios.

2026 marks a critical turningpoint as embodied intelligencetransitions from demonstration applications to large-scale deployment. Throughthe international stage of CES, X-Humanoid hopes to convey to the world thevision of "embodied intelligenceempowering all industries," jointly advancing the industrialization andecosystem co-development of embodied intelligence technology, ensuring thatrobots that "can work and know how towork" truly servehuman production and daily life.

 

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