Beijing — The second edition of the World Humanoid Robot Games wrapped up at Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval, the “Ice Ribbon,” on August 26, 2026, after five days of competition among 666 teams and 2,056 robots from 16 countries across six continents, contesting 51 events. When the final medal count was released, three manufacturers stood clear of the field.
1. AGIBOT — 18 Gold, 16 Silver, 12 Bronze (46 Medals)
Shanghai-based AGIBOT topped both the gold-medal and overall medal tables in its first-ever appearance at the Games. Its lineup — OmniHand, G2, A3 and X2 — consisted entirely of robots already in mass production or deployed in real-world settings, rather than machines built specifically to compete. OmniHand reached the final in all eight dexterous-manipulation events and won seven of them, including block-building, powder-weighing and a tweezers bean-picking task. X2 won gold in the 100m obstacle race and added silver and bronze in the 400m obstacle event, while A3 took gold in Tai Chi. AGIBOT also picked up five golds in scenario-based events such as hotel services, library operations and emergency response.
2. TianGong (Tien Kung) — 15 Gold, 12 Silver, 18 Bronze (45 Medals)
TianGong, fielded by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, finished a close second with 45 medals. Its robots owned the track: TianGong Ultra won the marquee 100m final in 8.64 seconds — nearly a full second faster than Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second human world record — after already breaking its own Games record twice earlier in the week, with 9.39 seconds at the opening ceremony and 8.85 seconds in the semifinal. A smaller-class TianGong entry also went viral for an unusual “shy sprint” running style, crossing the line in a 400m final in 45.66 seconds with its forearm raised in front of its face — a quirk that emerged naturally from the robot’s motion control rather than deliberate programming. Innovation Center-affiliated teams swept most of this year’s distance and jumping events, including the 1500m and long jump.
3. Unitree Robotics — 3 Gold, 4 Silver, 3 Bronze (10 Medals)
Unitree, the Hangzhou-based company that topped the medal table at the first Games in 2025 with four athletics golds, took third place this year with a total of 10 medals — a marked step down from its dominant 2025 showing. Its racing robots got off to a slow start, going through the opening 100m heats without a medal, with the company citing limited time to prepare dedicated racing units amid a broader push to scale commercial production. Booster Robotics finished just behind in fourth with 9 medals.
Records Fell Across the Board
Beyond the podium, the Games underlined how quickly the technology is advancing. Compared with the inaugural 2025 edition, winning times tumbled across track events: the large-class 400m gold time fell from 1 minute 28.03 seconds to 38.15 seconds, the 1500m gold time dropped from 6 minutes 34.40 seconds to 2 minutes 21.64 seconds, and the standing high jump record leapt from 0.956 meters to 3.40 meters. The 100m gold-medal time in the competition proper reached 9.32 seconds before Ultra’s later, faster runs.
The field was also more international than in 2025, with medals going to teams including Germany’s HTWK Robots, the Netherlands’ whIRLwind Amsterdam and Italy’s SPQR Team, alongside Chinese university squads from Tsinghua, Peking, Wuhan and Shanghai Jiao Tong.
Not every run went to plan: some robots lost limbs mid-sprint, one caught fire after crossing a finish line, and a weightlifting entry toppled a judges’ table — reminders that, for all the record-breaking, autonomous humanoids remain very much a work in progress.
Organizers have confirmed Beijing will host a third edition of the Games in 2027.