Tiangong 3.0

The Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics — trading internationally as X-Humanoid — was founded in 2023 by a consortium that includes Xiaomi, UBTech and Beijing municipal industrial groups, and in October 2024 was designated a national-local joint innovation centre for embodied intelligence. Tiangong (officially transliterated by the centre as Tien Kung) is its reference humanoid platform, and 3.0, announced in February 2026, is the current generation. The machine is a full-size biped: 170 cm and 64.5 kg on the manufacturer's spec card, with 31 degrees of freedom in the body — two in the head, three at the waist, fourteen across the arms and twelve in the legs — and a choice of third-party dexterous hands on top of that. Joints are the centre's own integrated high-torque modules, rated to 400 Nm at the strongest axis. Power comes from a hot-swappable pack, 15 Ah with a 3 Ah auxiliary, so a unit can be kept working across shifts rather than parked to charge. What the centre sells as the headline is control rather than hardware: it describes 3.0 as the first full-size humanoid to do whole-body high-dynamic motion control while in contact with objects — that is, to stay balanced while pushing, leaning on and bracing against the world instead of only walking through it. Perception is a depth camera, LiDAR and a high-precision IMU, with an outdoor navigation backpack and surround-view perception listed as future options. Onboard compute is a 4.8 GHz controller alongside a 2070 TOPS AI module, and the robot runs on the centre's Huisi Kaiwu embodied-intelligence platform, which is also sold separately to other robot makers. A note on numbers: the February launch coverage quoted 169 cm, 62 kg and 43 degrees of freedom. The 43 almost certainly counts two six-DoF dexterous hands on top of the 31 body axes; the height and weight differ from the current product page, which is the source we use here. Deployments named by the centre are guided tours, security inspection in hazardous areas, and industrial parts sorting; there is no public price list.

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