Humanoid Robots Beat 5 Human Records Fully Autonomously at Chinese Games
deedydas · x · 2026-08-29
Five human records were broken fully autonomously at the recent World Humanoid Robot Games in China. Across 51 events, Agibot's wheeled Genie G2 dominated task-based events, while X-Humanoid's Tiangong Ultra excelled in athletics. Unitree, last year's standout, saw a poor performance. A major shift from last year was the requirement for full autonomy in most events. While bots currently max out at a 16kg lift and occasional failures, the 100m dash time has improved significantly from 21.5s, signaling rapid progress toward superhuman physicality and autonomy.
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