REVEALED 2026.02REASSESSED 2026.08.24

Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (X-Humanoid)

X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0

Name: X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0
Brand: Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (X-Humanoid)

Where the Ultra variant is a running specialist, 3.0 is the general-purpose machine in this line, and the interesting thing about it is how much of it X-Humanoid has opened: joint, sensor and motion-control interfaces, the VLA training and deployment framework, and the URDF for the whole machine. That is a genuinely unusual position for a humanoid at this level. What it does not have is a buyer. There is no price, no ship date, and the autonomy shown so far has been demonstrated at the company's own events.

ReplacesX-Humanoid TiangongThe previous generation of this line.

The X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0 humanoid robot standing facing forward, white panelled body with dark joints, a visored head and articulated hands.

PriceNot listedNot tracked yet

Autonomy Ladder

Why Level III.

One five-rung scale, every category, from acting only on command to working unsupervised anywhere.

VGeneralized AutonomyAny task, any setting. No consumer robot has reached it.
IVEnvironmental AutonomyHandles new obstacles and re-plans in real time; rare in consumer products.
To reach Level IVSustained operation across sessions, including layouts and conditions it has not met before.
IIIConditional AutonomyThis robot

X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0 finishes whole jobs in a space it already knows, and still needs a person at the edges.

Navigation and control
Depth camera, lidar and a high-precision IMU. The manufacturer lists an outdoor navigation backpack and OCC surround perception as future extensions rather than shipping features. Internal communication runs CAN FD and EtherCAT across the body; external is WiFi 6e and Bluetooth.
Why this level
- X-Humanoid demonstrated 3.0 navigating a crowded venue under its own perception and route planning, and the machine is built for whole-body control with fine manipulation.
- That is autonomy operating inside conditions the operator sets up, which is conditional rather than environmental.
- Two things hold it at III rather than higher: every demonstration so far has been staged by the manufacturer at its own events, unlike the Ultra variant whose track results were set under a competition rule that forbade remote operation; and nothing published shows it working in a setting it was not brought to.
3 sources reviewed
IIAssisted AutonomyRuns preset routines; stalls at anything new.
IManual AutomationOne action on command; no independent operation.

How we assign a level →

Behind the classification

Sources we reviewed.

Provisional3 sources reviewed

Enough has been reviewed to classify, but gaps remain across source types.

Sources reviewed

Manufacturer documentation1 sourceReviewed

X-Humanoid product page for 具身天工3.0 (Embodied Tien Kung 3.0): full specification sheet covering dimensions, degrees of freedom, joint torque, battery, compute, sensors, communications and the open-development position. No price or availability stated.

X-Humanoid: Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 specificationX-Humanoid

Press & video reviews1 sourceReviewed

Unveiling coverage (February 2026) and the WRC 2026 demonstration in which the machine navigated a crowded venue under its own perception and route planning. These report 169 cm / 62 kg / 43 DOF against the manufacturer sheet.

X-Humanoid unveils Embodied Tiangong 3.0Pandaily

Monitoring record1 sourceReviewed

Sources behind the tracker entries following this robot.

GasgooGasgoo

How we evaluate evidence →

Human Readiness

Not consumer-ready.

One question: what does buying this robot today walk you into? The state is computed from the record, and recomputed daily.

Not consumer-readyThis robot

X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0 ships to commercial and research buyers, not to households.

The readiness scale measures household purchase timing, so no tier applies. A consumer version reaching general availability would start the clock.

On the record

Shipping since February 2026 · 6 months on the market
3 sources reviewed

The scale, for reference

Ready NowOn sale past the first-90-day window, assessed, with no documented issues and no announced successor.
New to MarketOn sale under 90 days; the ownership record is still forming.
WaitA successor is announced and has not shipped; re-read the decision when it arrives.
Known IssuesDocumented problems stand on the record; read the case before buying.

How we assess readiness →

Pre-Consumer Assessment

How this projection was reached

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PlausibleAt or above 47% of the 70 robots we assess before release

SpeculativeConceptPlausiblePromisingReady

The hatched tail is unreachable by construction. A projection does not publish as a full mark, because the evidence that settles it does not exist yet: whether the thing ships and works in ordinary use. Those 10 points are what shipping has to earn.

The reading

The engineering is unusually legible for a machine at this stage: X-Humanoid publishes a full specification, opens the low-level interfaces and the URDF, and has open-sourced its control and VLA frameworks. The institute also has a delivery record behind it, in the same line that won a half-marathon and three events at the 2026 games. What holds the assessment down is the gap between that and a product: the autonomy on display has been shown at the company's own events rather than under an outside rule, and there is no price, no ship date and no consumer channel.

Still open

Whether whole-body fine manipulation holds up on a task nobody staged
Runtime on the 15Ah+3Ah pack, which is published as a capacity and not as a duty cycle
What the 31 body degrees of freedom become with dexterous hands fitted, since coverage reports 43 and the manufacturer states 31
Whether the guided-tour and inspection deployments are live anywhere or still prospective
What an outside party has verified, as distinct from what has been demonstrated

Five pre-shipping signalsweighted, then capped58What can be judged before anyone owns one.

Track Record25% of the assessment70

What this asks

Has this maker shipped what it demoed before, on schedule, with the promised capability?

Engineering25% of the assessment72

What this asks

Are the demonstrated capabilities achievable in shipping form, or do they need breakthroughs not in evidence?

Demo Match20% of the assessment58

What this asks

What has been shown to work, against what is claimed in marketing.

Readiness15% of the assessment35

What this asks

Ship-date specificity, pricing transparency, distribution and regulatory status.

Disclosure15% of the assessment38

What this asks

How much of the product is disclosed. Higher means fewer fundamental unknowns remain.

middle half of the pre-release setits medianthis robot

Not a Robovations Scorethe two never convert into each other

This is a projection from pre-shipping signals, not a measurement. When the robot ships, the assessment is archived, a first Robovations Score is computed from the field record, and the change is logged on the tracker rather than appearing as a new number.

Read the pre-release method →

FIT CHECK

Will the X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0 fit your scenario?

Describe your scenario using the controls. Each choice reads the spec sheet for you, flagging where the X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0 is built for your space and where it isn’t.

Where it operates

Primary tasks

Supervision needs

Timeline

A classification of fit for the conditions you set, not a recommendation. Verdicts describe engineering design intent, not test results.

SPECIFICATION

The full spec sheet.

Manufacturer-published figures, measured against every humanoid robot we track.

Dimensional drawing

Key specificationsManufacturer-published

Weight: 142.2 lbs

Where it lands · ranked across 55 humanoid robotsThis robotMedianTypical range

Weight142.2lbs

26.46 lbs197.1+ lbs

Near median

Position shows where the figure sits across the tracked category, not a quality judgment.

RECORD

How the assessment has moved.

Every announcement, release and reassessment behind the current classification.

Coming soon

Just launched

Active updates

Settled

Discontinued

Aug 2026 · AnnouncementTiangong 3.0 works a Mercedes-Benz stand at WRC 2026, navigating crowds unaided
Feb 2026 · AnnouncementX-Humanoid unveils Tiangong 3.0 with whole-body touch-interactive control

Editorial comparisons

How X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0 compares.

All comparisons →

Goal-based

Honor D1 Lightning vs Tiangong 3.0: what can each robot do?

Honor D1 Lightning vs X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0

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Common questions

What people actually ask.

3 answered

OperationIs Tiangong 3.0 the same robot as Tiangong Omni?

No. They are three different machines in one line. Tiangong 3.0 is the full-size general-purpose model at 170 cm and 64.5 kg. Tiangong Omni is a lightweight machine at about 1.35 m and 39 kg, built for tight spaces. Tiangong Ultra is the running variant at 1.80 m and 55 kg. At the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, Ultra and Omni competed in different size classes and both won their 400m finals.

OperationHow many degrees of freedom does it have?

X-Humanoid’s own specification states 31 in total: 2 in the head, 3 in the waist, 14 across the upper limbs and 12 across the lower limbs. Several reports have said 43. The same sheet lists dexterous hands as an option, so a higher figure is plausible for a configured machine, but nothing published states that, so we record the manufacturer figure and the disagreement rather than reconciling the two.

OperationWhat does "open" actually mean here?

The manufacturer states that the low-level interfaces for joints, sensors, motion control and embodied manipulation are fully open, that the motion-control framework and the VLA training and deployment framework are open-sourced, and that the URDF for the whole machine is published. Compute is selectable between x86 and Nvidia Thor. That is openness at the development level; it is not availability.

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Robovations. "X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0: Autonomy Level III (Conditional Autonomy)." Autonomy Ladder™, assessed August 2026. https://robovations.com/robots/x-humanoid-tiangong-3-0/

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X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0

Will the X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0 fit your scenario?

The full spec sheet.

How the assessment has moved.

How X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0 compares.

Honor D1 Lightning vs Tiangong 3.0: what can each robot do?

What people actually ask.

Other humanoid robots we have classified.

Honor D1 Lightning

Boston Dynamics Atlas

HMND 01 Alpha

Unitree H1

Reference the X-Humanoid Tiangong 3.0 classification.

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