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Humanoid Robot Sports

Track verified humanoid robot sports competitions, schedules and results with autonomy, rules, sources and human-comparison caveats kept visible.

Latest completed event: 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games

2026-08-22 – 2026-08-26 · National Speed Skating Oval (Ice Ribbon), Beijing, China

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.

51 total events30 competitive + 21 scenario-based
666 teams16 countries
2,056 robotsOrganizer registration count
1,301 competition sessionsFive-day program

Official event source

Watch robot sports

Public YouTube footage from verified channels for competitions and disciplines already tracked by Biped.News. Video is supporting context; result claims remain tied to the cited evidence above.

Robots set new records at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games Bloomberg Television · 2026-08-24 Current-year World Games footage. It predates the August 26 final, so final-result claims on this page remain tied to the cited post-event result sources rather than this video. Watch on YouTube
2026 humanoid robot half-marathon in Beijing CGTN · 2026-04-18 Current-year footage from the separate Beijing E-Town endurance series tracked on this page. Watch on YouTube
Fully autonomous 3v3 robot football test match CGTN · 2025-06-28 A pre-Games test event for the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games program; useful for seeing autonomy and multi-robot coordination. Watch on YouTube
Humanoid robots compete in martial arts CGTN · 2025-08-16 Archival footage for the performance discipline; this is not combat footage and does not replace the separate Robot Combat hub. Watch on YouTube

Robot times need robot rules

The 8.64 s 100 m large-size final is a robot-competition result, not a World Athletics record or a human-equivalent benchmark. Starting procedures, timing, hardware, scoring and control rules can differ from human athletics.

Tracked competitions

Selected source-backed humanoid robot sports competitions and results; not an exhaustive global results database.

2nd World Humanoid Robot Games 2026-08-22 – 2026-08-26 · National Speed Skating Oval (Ice Ribbon), Beijing, China 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. Beijing Municipal Government — 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games highlights
2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon 2026-04-19 · Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (E-Town), Beijing, China 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. Beijing Municipal Government / Beijing E-Town result report
Inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games 2025-08-15 – 2025-08-17 · National Speed Skating Oval (Ice Ribbon), Beijing, China 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. Beijing Municipal Government — 2026 organizer comparison to inaugural Games
2025 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon 2025-04-19 · Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (E-Town), Beijing, China 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. Beijing Municipal Government — inaugural humanoid half-marathon report

Selected source-backed results

Results are published with control-mode and comparison caveats rather than as a context-free medal table.

EventRobot / teamResultControlCaveatSource
100 m large-size group2nd World Humanoid Robot Games · Final Tiangong UltraTianjiao Team 8.64 s Autonomous 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. Xinhua — 100 m finals report
4×100 m relay2nd World Humanoid Robot Games · Final Tiangong robots (exact model mix not stated in cited source)Tiangong Team 2:20.79 Autonomous 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. Xinhua — August 25 results report
Table tennis2nd World Humanoid Robot Games · Final Competition humanoid (model not stated in cited source)Peking University–Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence Joint Team 2–0 final win Autonomous 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. Global Times — table tennis final report
1500 m2nd World Humanoid Robot Games · Final Tiangong UltraTianzhuo Team 2:21.64 Autonomous 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. Beijing Daily — 1500 m final report
400 m large-size group2nd World Humanoid Robot Games · Final Tiangong UltraTiangong Team 38.15 s Autonomous 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. Beijing Municipal Government — Tiangong athletics report
100 m2nd World Humanoid Robot Games · Opening ceremony competition run Not publicly identified in Biped's cited sourceTeam not identified in the English Xinhua result report 9.39 s Not publicly confirmed for this specific run 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. Xinhua — opening-day 100 m report
Humanoid half-marathon2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon · Final result Lightning (Shandian)Team Monkey King 50:26 Autonomous The robot course and competition rules are not a ratified human road-racing record system; treat this as a humanoid-robot event result. Beijing E-Town / Beijing Municipal Government result report
100 m finalInaugural World Humanoid Robot Games · Final Embodied Tiangong UltraTiangong team 21.50 s official scored time Autonomous 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. Beijing Science and Technology Commission / Beijing Daily result report
Humanoid half-marathon2025 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon · Final result Embodied Tiangong UltraTiangong team 2:40:42 Autonomous This is a humanoid-robot competition result on the event course, not a ratified human road-racing record. Beijing E-Town / Beijing Municipal Government retrospective

What the sports test

AthleticsShort and middle-distance races expose acceleration, gait stability and perception under pressure; longer races add endurance and energy-management constraints.locomotion speed · balance · fall recovery · autonomous lane keeping · thermal and battery management
Football / soccerFootball is a systems test: locomotion matters, but perception, coordination and real-time planning are usually the harder differentiators.multi-robot coordination · ball perception · planning · dynamic balance · recovery after contact
Combat sportsCombat events stress balance and recovery under contact. Biped maintains a separate Robot Combat hub for fight-by-fight schedules, results and footage.impact recovery · dynamic balance · whole-body control · durabilitySpecialized coverage
Dance, gymnastics and martial-arts performanceChoreographed events reveal motion quality and repeatability that raw sprint times can hide.whole-body coordination · timing · trajectory control · multi-robot synchronization
Strength and dexterityThese events broaden robot sport beyond locomotion and put hands, actuators, force control and perception in the foreground.force control · grip reliability · hand-eye coordination · upper-body stability
Long-distance racingHalf-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.endurance · energy management · thermal management · navigation · maintenance strategy

Scenario challenges: part of the Games, not a sport

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.

factory tasks · hotel service · household tasks · logistics · emergency response

Methodology and limitations

  1. 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.
  2. Keep elapsed time, organizer-adjusted scores and placements distinct. A robot result is never treated as a ratified human athletics record.
  3. Record autonomy or teleoperation only when the event rules or a source explicitly supports it; otherwise label control mode as not publicly confirmed.
  4. 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.

Last verified: 2026-08-27.