Tiangong 1.0 LITE

Tiangong is the machine that started the line now represented by Tiangong 3.0. The Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics — trading internationally as X-Humanoid, founded in 2023 with Xiaomi, UBTech and Beijing municipal industrial groups among its shareholders — unveiled it on 27 April 2024 at a dedicated launch event in Beijing's Yizhuang district, timed to the Zhongguancun Forum. The centre presented it simply as Tiangong; once later revisions appeared it renamed this first build Tiangong 1.0 LITE. It was not launched as a product but as a mother platform: a reference body other companies could build on, with an open architecture, published communication interfaces and slots for third-party sensors and actuators. The robot stands 163 cm and weighs 43 kg, carries several vision sensors, a 3D camera, a high-precision inertial measurement unit and six-axis force sensors for force feedback, and has 550 TOPS of onboard compute. Its headline claim was locomotion. The centre says Tiangong was the world's first full-size, purely electrically driven humanoid to achieve humanlike running, demonstrating a stable 6 km/h at the launch. The gait came from a control method the centre developed itself and still uses across the family — predictive reinforcement imitation learning based on state memory — which it credits with letting the robot clear slopes and stairs blind, without vision, and recover from stumbles and missed steps. Iteration was fast. Within four months, in August 2024, the centre published two revisions of the same body: Tiangong 1.1 PRO, which added complete arm function on the same sensor and compute package, and Tiangong 1.2 MAX, which raised hip and knee joint torque to 320 Nm for more payload, more speed and longer endurance. It was 1.2 MAX that carried the World Robot Conference emblem onto the stage at the 2024 opening ceremony — the centre's claim of the first long-horizon task performed live by an embodied-intelligence robot at a world-level event. The running-tuned Tiangong Ultra then won the first humanoid half marathon in April 2025, Tiangong 2.0 was shown the same day, and Tiangong 3.0 became the flagship in February 2026. The first build stays in the catalogue as the reference point those generations are measured against; the centre continues to run an open-source community around the platform.

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