Overview

• The three-day event at Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval brought more than 500 humanoid robots from 280 teams across 16 countries to compete in sports and practical tasks such as medicine sorting and cleaning.
• Chinese teams led the medal table, with Unitree and X‑Humanoid among the top performers, and Shoucheng Holdings saying portfolio companies collected 37 medals, including 12 gold.
• Unitree reported four track golds and performance milestones, citing a top speed of 4.78 m/s and a 33.71‑second 100‑meter run.
• Robots frequently fell, lost parts or stalled and often required handlers or remote control, underscoring current limits in autonomy, durability and reliability.
• The showcase aligned with China’s industrial push into AI and robotics, with reports of more than $20 billion in subsidies and a planned one‑trillion‑yuan fund to back startups.