Facts

• Segment: Humanoid
• Country: China
• Founded: 2023
• Website: https://www.x-humanoid.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Articles
• Sources

Summary

Beijing Centre of Humanoid Innovation develops the Tiangong series of humanoid robots and embodied-intelligence systems. The Beijing-based center focuses on core humanoid technologies, productization and scenario pilots that move robots from research into practical use.

Market context

Represents China's centralized approach to humanoid robotics, combining government backing, industrial partners, and shared R&D infrastructure to accelerate development and deployment. • humanoid robotics platforms (Tiangong series).

• Capability: bipedal locomotion
• Capability: embodied AI systems
• Capability: industrial task execution
• Capability: multi-robot coordination
• Strategic position: state-backed humanoid development platform
• Strategic position: centralized R&D and industrial coordination model
• Strategic position: infrastructure layer for scaling humanoid deployment

Products

• Tiangong

Facts

• Website: https://www.x-humanoid.com
• HQ: Beijing, China
• Founded: 2023
• Segment: Humanoid
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-02-03 - First funding round - $101M - Beijing Humanoid Robotics Hub Raises $100 Million in First Funding Round - source: news.bjd.com.cn

Investors

• Baidu - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-03
• E-Town Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-03
• Kyland Technology - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-03
• TH Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-02-03

Humanoid innovation centre behind Tiangong and embodied-intelligence platforms

The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, also known publicly through X-Humanoid, focuses on core technologies for embodied-intelligence robots, product development, application pilots and industrialization. Its public profile is closely tied to the Tiangong humanoid robot series.

• Target environment: Humanoid robotics labs, industrial demonstration sites, public robotics test environments, embodied-intelligence development programs and Beijing robotics ecosystem facilities.
• Deployment model: Innovation-centre model built around platform development, applied research, productization, ecosystem coordination and scenario pilots.
• Customer context: Robotics companies, research teams, local industrial partners, public-sector programs and organizations developing or validating humanoid robot technologies.
• Workflow context: Humanoid locomotion, embodied intelligence, robot body platforms, scenario pilots, adaptive walking, industrialization support and technology validation.
• Commercial maturity: Chinese humanoid innovation centre with Tiangong and X-Humanoid activity across platform development, applied research and regional industry coordination. Scaling depends on deployed use cases, part…
• Market position: Chinese humanoid innovation centre positioned as a shared platform and industrialization node for embodied-intelligence robots.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on moving from showcase platforms into deployed work, clear platform governance, customer ownership, production scale, standardization, and durable use beyond public demonstrations.
• Adjacent context: Humanoid robotics, embodied intelligence, Tiangong, industrialization, robot platforms and Chinese robotics ecosystem development.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-02-16 - Demonstration - Tien Kung 3.0 Executes First Thomas Flare by Full-Scale Humanoid - • X-Humanoid's Tien Kung 3.0 performed the first Thomas Flare by a full-scale humanoid robot.
• 2026-02-16 - Demonstration - X-Humanoid Demonstrates Embodied Tien Kung 3.0's Capabilities - • X-Humanoid unveiled the Embodied Tien Kung 3.0, a full-size humanoid robot, on February 16, 2026.
• 2026-02-03 - Funding - Beijing Humanoid Robotics Hub Raises $100 Million in First Funding Round - Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics raised over 700 million yuan ($100 million) with backing from Baidu and st…
• 2026-01-29 - Facility Opening - Beijing Innovation Center opens pilot manufacturing and validation platform, rolls out 1,000th customized robot - Beijing Innovation Center officially opened its pilot manufacturing and v…
• 2025-06-12 - Facility Opening - World’s first 4S store for humanoid robots to open in Beijing as China ramps up high-tech innovation - Beijing opened the worlds first 4S store for humanoid robots in August 2025.
• 2025-06-10 - Demonstration - Xhumanoid unveils Tien Kung 2.0 after Beijing Half-Marathon victory - Achieved world record by completing the half-marathon in 2 hours, 40 minutes, 42 seconds.
• 2025-04-21 - Capability - Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center's Tiangong robot runs half marathon - Although many of the robots fell or ran out of power during the race, the winning robot — Tiangong Ultra, designed…
• 2025-04-19 - Demonstration - Tien Kung Ultra wins humanoid robot half-marathon in Beijing - • The Tien Kung Ultra humanoid robot completed a 21.1-kilometer half-marathon in Beijing on April 19, 2025, finishing in 2 hour…
• 2025-03-28 - Demonstration - Beijing Humanoid Robotics' Tianyi robot autonomously packs, scans, labels boxes. - A humanoid robot innovation center was established in Beijing to accelerate humanoid robot industrializatio…
• 2025-03-28 - Product Launch - 3,000㎡! Beijing's First Humanoid Robot Data Training Center Inaugurated in Shijingshan - Beijing's First Humanoid Robot Data Training Center Inaugurated in Shijingshan Home Beijing Info Sci…
• 2024-12-18 - Research Publication - RoboMIND benchmark releases multi-embodiment manipulation data including Tiangong humanoid trajectories - RoboMIND introduces a multi-embodiment manipulation dataset with 107,000 demo…
• 2024-12-17 - Partnership - Audi FAW NEV Company announces MoU with UBTECH Robotics and the Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics - Audi said its new Changchun plant would explore the next step in humanoid-robot…

Operations / Deployments

• 2026-01-29 - Facility Opening - Beijing Innovation Center opens pilot manufacturing and validation platform, rolls out 1,000th customized robot - Beijing Innovation Center officially opened its pilot manufacturing and v…

Team

• Xiong Youjun - General Manager - Xiong leads the Beijing humanoid robotics innovation center.

Relationships

• factory deployment site - TienKung humanoid robots from Beijing Centre of Humanoid Innovation were deployed at a Foton Cummins factory.
• AUDI AG - Humanoid robotics exploration - MoU with Audi FAW NEV Company and UBTECH to explore humanoid use in Changchun EV production (Audi media center).

Context tags

• Humanoid research institute - Peer Group
• Research institute - Stack Layer
• Humanoid robot research - Workflow
• Humanoid public platform development - Workflow
• Humanoid development labs - Customer Environment

Customers and deployments

• Reported Cumulative Humanoid Produced - 1,000th customized prototype robot rolled out - 2026-01-30 - Pilot manufacturing and validation platform - humanoid robot pilot manufacturing and validation - China Daily reported…
• Humanoid Pilot Platform Area Sqm - 9,700 sqm humanoid robot pilot platform - 2026-01-29 - Beijing humanoid robot pilot platform - humanoid pilot production / testing - Beijing Innovation Center launched a 9,700 square m…
• Named Customer Site - TienKung humanoids at Foton Cummins factory - 2025-04-15 - Foton Cummins - factory operations - Beijing Centre of Humanoid Innovation deployed TienKung humanoid robots at a Foton Cummins factory fo…

Articles

• 2026-04-21 - Why Schaeffler keeps showing up in humanoid robotics - Schaeffler is building across supply, co-development, research, and deployment in humanoids. - Korthos: /research/why-schaeffler-keeps-showing-up-in-hu…