{ "schemaVersion": 1, "lastVerified": "2026-08-27", "coverage": "Selected source-backed humanoid robot sports competitions and results; not an exhaustive global results database.", "methodology": [ "Prefer organizer and government event records for schedules, participation counts, rules and official results; use primary reporting when organizer result sheets are not yet available.", "Keep elapsed time, organizer-adjusted scores and placements distinct. A robot result is never treated as a ratified human athletics record.", "Record autonomy or teleoperation only when the event rules or a source explicitly supports it; otherwise label control mode as not publicly confirmed.", "Scenario-based application challenges hosted inside a multi-event Games program are tracked separately from athletic competition because they test work tasks rather than sport performance." ], "events": [ { "id": "world-humanoid-robot-games-2026", "series": "World Humanoid Robot Games", "name": "2nd World Humanoid Robot Games", "category": "multi-sport", "status": "completed", "location": "National Speed Skating Oval (Ice Ribbon), Beijing, China", "startDate": "2026-08-22", "endDate": "2026-08-26", "organizer": "Beijing Municipal People's Government / China Media Group / World Robot Cooperation Organization / Asia-Pacific Robot World Cup International Council", "eventCount": 51, "competitiveEventCount": 30, "scenarioEventCount": 21, "sessionCount": 1301, "teamCount": 666, "robotCount": 2056, "countryCount": 16, "summary": "The five-day second Games is complete after 1,301 competition sessions across 51 events. Biped separates the 30 competitive events from 21 scenario-based application challenges and publishes selected source-backed results with autonomy and human-comparison caveats.", "source": { "label": "Beijing Municipal Government — 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games highlights", "url": "https://english.beijing.gov.cn/latest/news/202608/t20260815_4824032.html", "quality": "official" }, "secondarySource": { "label": "Xinhua — closing results and record summary", "url": "https://www.news.cn/20260827/9ba03e45521b4fdd91302e50792684f4/c.html", "quality": "primary-reporting" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-27" }, { "id": "beijing-etown-humanoid-half-marathon-2026", "series": "Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon", "name": "2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon", "category": "endurance-race", "status": "completed", "location": "Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (E-Town), Beijing, China", "startDate": "2026-04-19", "endDate": "2026-04-19", "organizer": "Beijing E-Town / Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area", "distanceKm": 21.0975, "teamCountLabel": "100+", "summary": "The second Beijing humanoid half-marathon expanded to more than 100 teams and included autonomous-navigation and remote-control categories. The winning Lightning robot completed the course in 50:26.", "source": { "label": "Beijing Municipal Government / Beijing E-Town result report", "url": "https://www.beijing.gov.cn/ywdt/gzdt/202604/t20260421_4600210.html", "quality": "official" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-23" }, { "id": "world-humanoid-robot-games-2025", "series": "World Humanoid Robot Games", "name": "Inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games", "category": "multi-sport", "status": "completed", "location": "National Speed Skating Oval (Ice Ribbon), Beijing, China", "startDate": "2025-08-15", "endDate": "2025-08-17", "organizer": "World Humanoid Robot Games organizing committee", "eventCount": 26, "sessionCount": 487, "teamCount": 280, "summary": "The inaugural Games established the recurring Beijing competition format across athletics, football, dance, combat and application tasks. The 2026 organizer page provides the comparable 2025 baseline of 26 events, 280 teams and 487 competition sessions.", "source": { "label": "Beijing Municipal Government — 2026 organizer comparison to inaugural Games", "url": "https://english.beijing.gov.cn/latest/news/202608/t20260815_4824032.html", "quality": "official" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-23" }, { "id": "beijing-etown-humanoid-half-marathon-2025", "series": "Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon", "name": "2025 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon", "category": "endurance-race", "status": "completed", "location": "Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (E-Town), Beijing, China", "startDate": "2025-04-19", "endDate": "2025-04-19", "organizer": "Beijing E-Town / Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area", "distanceKm": 21.0975, "teamCount": 20, "summary": "The first dedicated humanoid robot half-marathon put 20 robot teams on a 21.0975 km course and gave the category a repeatable endurance benchmark outside the World Humanoid Robot Games.", "source": { "label": "Beijing Municipal Government — inaugural humanoid half-marathon report", "url": "https://english.beijing.gov.cn/latest/news/202504/t20250421_4070140.html", "quality": "official" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-23" } ], "disciplines": [ { "id": "athletics", "name": "Athletics", "kind": "sport", "examples": [ "100 m", "400 m", "1500 m", "relays", "jumping and obstacle events" ], "engineeringSignals": [ "locomotion speed", "balance", "fall recovery", "autonomous lane keeping", "thermal and battery management" ], "summary": "Short and middle-distance races expose acceleration, gait stability and perception under pressure; longer races add endurance and energy-management constraints." }, { "id": "football", "name": "Football / soccer", "kind": "sport", "examples": [ "3v3 football", "5v5 football", "7-a-side exhibitions" ], "engineeringSignals": [ "multi-robot coordination", "ball perception", "planning", "dynamic balance", "recovery after contact" ], "summary": "Football is a systems test: locomotion matters, but perception, coordination and real-time planning are usually the harder differentiators." }, { "id": "combat", "name": "Combat sports", "kind": "sport", "examples": [ "freestyle fighting", "boxing and striking formats" ], "engineeringSignals": [ "impact recovery", "dynamic balance", "whole-body control", "durability" ], "summary": "Combat events stress balance and recovery under contact. Biped maintains a separate Robot Combat hub for fight-by-fight schedules, results and footage.", "relatedHub": "/robot-combat" }, { "id": "performance", "name": "Dance, gymnastics and martial-arts performance", "kind": "sport", "examples": [ "street dance", "cheerleading", "dancesport", "floor exercise", "martial arts" ], "engineeringSignals": [ "whole-body coordination", "timing", "trajectory control", "multi-robot synchronization" ], "summary": "Choreographed events reveal motion quality and repeatability that raw sprint times can hide." }, { "id": "strength-dexterity", "name": "Strength and dexterity", "kind": "sport", "examples": [ "weightlifting", "tug-of-war", "table tennis", "pitch-pot" ], "engineeringSignals": [ "force control", "grip reliability", "hand-eye coordination", "upper-body stability" ], "summary": "These events broaden robot sport beyond locomotion and put hands, actuators, force control and perception in the foreground." }, { "id": "endurance", "name": "Long-distance racing", "kind": "sport", "examples": [ "humanoid half-marathon" ], "engineeringSignals": [ "endurance", "energy management", "thermal management", "navigation", "maintenance strategy" ], "summary": "Half-marathons are useful because a robot must remain mechanically and computationally stable for far longer than a short demo. Battery swaps and intervention rules must still be disclosed." }, { "id": "scenario-challenges", "name": "Scenario challenges", "kind": "non-sport", "examples": [ "factory tasks", "hotel service", "household tasks", "logistics", "emergency response" ], "engineeringSignals": [ "task completion", "manipulation", "reliability", "workflow autonomy", "human intervention" ], "summary": "The World Humanoid Robot Games also hosts application challenges. Biped tracks them because they are part of the event, but labels them separately because they are not athletic competitions." } ], "results": [ { "id": "whrg-2026-100m-large-final-tiangong-ultra", "eventId": "world-humanoid-robot-games-2026", "disciplineId": "athletics", "discipline": "100 m large-size group", "stage": "Final", "date": "2026-08-26", "competitor": "Tianjiao Team", "robotModel": "Tiangong Ultra", "result": "8.64 s", "resultType": "elapsed-time", "placement": 1, "controlMode": "Autonomous", "controlNote": "Beijing Daily's closing report says Tiangong again ran in fully autonomous mode in 2026; the event organizer also required autonomous completion for non-hurdle track events.", "verificationStatus": "primary-reporting", "comparisonCaveat": "8.64 seconds is an elapsed time from a humanoid-robot competition under event-specific rules. It is not a World Athletics-ratified human record or a human-equivalent benchmark, even though the number is lower than 9.58 seconds.", "source": { "label": "Xinhua — 100 m finals report", "url": "https://www.news.cn/photo/20260826/a659737a9e8a461f969b11a1f5914727/c.html", "quality": "primary-reporting" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-27" }, { "id": "whrg-2026-4x100-tiangong-team", "eventId": "world-humanoid-robot-games-2026", "disciplineId": "athletics", "discipline": "4×100 m relay", "stage": "Final", "date": "2026-08-25", "competitor": "Tiangong Team", "robotModel": "Tiangong robots (exact model mix not stated in cited source)", "result": "2:20.79", "resultType": "elapsed-time", "placement": 1, "controlMode": "Autonomous", "controlNote": "The organizer's 2026 rules required non-hurdle track events to be completed autonomously.", "verificationStatus": "primary-reporting", "comparisonCaveat": "This relay time is a result under the World Humanoid Robot Games format, not a ratified human relay mark; robot hardware, exchange procedures and competition rules differ from human athletics.", "source": { "label": "Xinhua — August 25 results report", "url": "https://www.news.cn/sports/20260826/642fab7306524f3bbaee48f3eb9a4a32/c.html", "quality": "primary-reporting" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-27" }, { "id": "whrg-2026-table-tennis-pku-baai", "eventId": "world-humanoid-robot-games-2026", "disciplineId": "strength-dexterity", "discipline": "Table tennis", "stage": "Final", "date": "2026-08-25", "competitor": "Peking University–Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence Joint Team", "robotModel": "Competition humanoid (model not stated in cited source)", "result": "2–0 final win", "resultType": "score", "placement": 1, "controlMode": "Autonomous", "controlNote": "The organizer stated that competitive events other than the two hurdle races required fully autonomous completion.", "verificationStatus": "primary-reporting", "comparisonCaveat": "This is a competition match score under the Games' table-tennis rules, not evidence that the robot performs at a human professional level; court setup, robot constraints and match format differ.", "source": { "label": "Global Times — table tennis final report", "url": "https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202608/1369009.shtml", "quality": "primary-reporting" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-27" }, { "id": "whrg-2026-1500m-tianzhuo", "eventId": "world-humanoid-robot-games-2026", "disciplineId": "athletics", "discipline": "1500 m", "stage": "Final", "date": "2026-08-23", "competitor": "Tianzhuo Team", "robotModel": "Tiangong Ultra", "result": "2:21.64", "resultType": "elapsed-time", "placement": 1, "controlMode": "Autonomous", "controlNote": "The organizer's 2026 rules required non-hurdle track events to be completed autonomously.", "verificationStatus": "primary-reporting", "comparisonCaveat": "This 1500 m time was recorded in a humanoid-robot race under Games rules. It is not a World Athletics-ratified result and should not be treated as directly equivalent to a human track performance.", "source": { "label": "Beijing Daily — 1500 m final report", "url": "https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s6a8b0c8be4b0e45f3fd666f6.html", "quality": "primary-reporting" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-27" }, { "id": "whrg-2026-400m-large-tiangong-ultra", "eventId": "world-humanoid-robot-games-2026", "disciplineId": "athletics", "discipline": "400 m large-size group", "stage": "Final", "date": "2026-08-23", "competitor": "Tiangong Team", "robotModel": "Tiangong Ultra", "result": "38.15 s", "resultType": "elapsed-time", "placement": 1, "controlMode": "Autonomous", "controlNote": "The Beijing Municipal Government report says the controller only pressed the start control; subsequent judgment and running were completed autonomously by the robot.", "verificationStatus": "official", "comparisonCaveat": "38.15 seconds is a robot-competition result under World Humanoid Robot Games rules, not a ratified human 400 m record. Starting, hardware and control constraints are not the same as World Athletics competition.", "source": { "label": "Beijing Municipal Government — Tiangong athletics report", "url": "https://www.beijing.gov.cn/ywdt/yaowen/202608/t20260824_4833820.html", "quality": "official" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-27" }, { "id": "whrg-2026-100m-opening-939", "eventId": "world-humanoid-robot-games-2026", "disciplineId": "athletics", "discipline": "100 m", "stage": "Opening ceremony competition run", "date": "2026-08-22", "competitor": "Team not identified in the English Xinhua result report", "robotModel": "Not publicly identified in Biped's cited source", "result": "9.39 s", "resultType": "elapsed-time", "placement": null, "controlMode": "Not publicly confirmed for this specific run", "verificationStatus": "primary-reporting", "comparisonCaveat": "This is a robot-competition 100 m time reported during the Games opening, not a World Athletics record or a human-equivalent benchmark. Starting procedure, timing, robot hardware and competition rules differ from human athletics.", "source": { "label": "Xinhua — opening-day 100 m report", "url": "https://imgs.news.cn/english/20260822/604bf4db46b94ce785f5eed71af441c6/c.html", "quality": "primary-reporting" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-23" }, { "id": "etown-2026-half-marathon-lightning", "eventId": "beijing-etown-humanoid-half-marathon-2026", "disciplineId": "endurance", "discipline": "Humanoid half-marathon", "stage": "Final result", "date": "2026-04-19", "competitor": "Team Monkey King", "robotModel": "Lightning (Shandian)", "result": "50:26", "resultType": "elapsed-time", "placement": 1, "controlMode": "Autonomous", "controlNote": "The Beijing E-Town report quotes the team saying Lightning ran fully autonomously and made one battery change at 10.6 km.", "verificationStatus": "official", "comparisonCaveat": "The robot course and competition rules are not a ratified human road-racing record system; treat this as a humanoid-robot event result.", "source": { "label": "Beijing E-Town / Beijing Municipal Government result report", "url": "https://www.beijing.gov.cn/ywdt/gzdt/202604/t20260421_4600147.html", "quality": "official" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-23" }, { "id": "whrg-2025-100m-tiangong-ultra", "eventId": "world-humanoid-robot-games-2025", "disciplineId": "athletics", "discipline": "100 m final", "stage": "Final", "date": "2025-08-17", "competitor": "Tiangong team", "robotModel": "Embodied Tiangong Ultra", "result": "21.50 s official scored time", "resultType": "organizer-adjusted-time", "placement": 1, "controlMode": "Autonomous", "controlNote": "The organizer-side report says Tiangong ran without remote control and received a 0.8 autonomy coefficient in the official scoring.", "verificationStatus": "official", "comparisonCaveat": "21.50 seconds is the published scored result after the event's autonomy coefficient, so it should not be treated as an unadjusted elapsed-time benchmark.", "source": { "label": "Beijing Science and Technology Commission / Beijing Daily result report", "url": "https://kw.beijing.gov.cn/xwdt/kcyx/xwdtyqqy/202508/t20250818_4175314.html", "quality": "official" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-23" }, { "id": "etown-2025-half-marathon-tiangong-ultra", "eventId": "beijing-etown-humanoid-half-marathon-2025", "disciplineId": "endurance", "discipline": "Humanoid half-marathon", "stage": "Final result", "date": "2025-04-19", "competitor": "Tiangong team", "robotModel": "Embodied Tiangong Ultra", "result": "2:40:42", "resultType": "elapsed-time", "placement": 1, "controlMode": "Autonomous", "verificationStatus": "official", "comparisonCaveat": "This is a humanoid-robot competition result on the event course, not a ratified human road-racing record.", "source": { "label": "Beijing E-Town / Beijing Municipal Government retrospective", "url": "https://kfqgw.beijing.gov.cn/zwgkkfq/ztzl/lqztkfq/lqzx/zxxx/202602/t20260209_4503670.html", "quality": "official" }, "lastVerified": "2026-08-23" } ] }