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Beijing-based humanoid robot developer, also called TianGong Robotics, maker of the Tiangong humanoid line and the Huisi Kaiwu embodied-AI platform.
China's locomotion stack closed a human gap in about a year. It closed it in events that take out perception, grasping and anything unrehearsed, which is most of a deployment.
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Tiangong Ultra beat four men's world records in robot-only categories at the Beijing games, but the only mark with a clean comparator is a standing high jump three times higher than last year's robot best.
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The second World Humanoid Robot Games cut the machines' 100-metre time from 21.5 seconds to 8.64 in a year, while the dexterity events failed even with human operators in control gloves. That puts the bottleneck in the hands.
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The World Humanoid Robot Games reads as a volume-manufacture demonstration. The FCC import ban and Unitree's Pentagon listing leave Western buyers cut off from the supplier doing the demonstrating.
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China's World Humanoid Robot Games scored household and hotel runs out of 300 points, docking collisions and drops and halving credit when a person stepped in. The penalties are the interesting part.
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