What it measures
Sprint and endurance locomotion, balance, team football, dexterous manipulation, and performance in household, industrial and emergency-response scenarios. Control-mode and autonomy requirements differ by event and edition.
CompetitionRecurringHigh relevance
World Humanoid Robot Games
World Humanoid Robot Games
The World Humanoid Robot Games is a recurring multi-event competition in Beijing spanning robot sports and real-world application scenarios. The inaugural 2025 edition had 280 teams and 26 events. The second edition ran 22–26 August 2026 with 666 teams, 2,056 robots and 51 events, including 21 scenario-based events.
- First published
- 2025
- Organizers
- People's Government of Beijing Municipality, China Media Group (CMG), World Robot Cooperation Organization, RoboCup Asia-Pacific Confederation Board of Trustees
- Tasks
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- Simulator
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- License
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How it works
The 2025 program included 100 m and 400 m sprints, a 1500 m race, 5v5 football, boxing, and cleaning and medicine-sorting tasks. For the 2025 100 m, autonomous entries had elapsed times multiplied by 0.8 while remote-controlled entries used a 1.0 coefficient. In 2026, all competitive events except the 100 m and 400 m hurdle races required fully autonomous operation, and scenario events moved into real-world settings such as factories, hotels and model homes.
Why it matters
It is a public, event-based head-to-head comparison of humanoid robots on running, football and task events, with rules that separate autonomous entries from remote-controlled ones.
Scoring
Metrics
| Metric | Key | Unit | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finish time | finish_time_s | s | Lower is better ↓ |
| Official scored time after control-mode coefficient | scored_time_s | s | Lower is better ↓ |
| Official race time | official_time_s | s | Lower is better ↓ |
| Supplemental stopwatch time | stopwatch_time_s | s | Lower is better ↓ |
| Goals scored | goals_for | goals | Higher is better ↑ |
| Goals conceded | goals_against | goals | Lower is better ↓ |
Hardware
Robots involved
Tiangong Ultra won the 2025 100 m, Unitree H1 won the 2025 400 m and 1500 m, and Booster T1 teams took the 2025 5v5 football gold and silver medals in the collected results.
Timeline
Editions and next edition
2025
Aug 15, 2025 · Beijing, China
Competition held 15–17 August 2025 (opening at Beijing National Stadium; events at the National Speed Skating Oval). 280 teams and 26 events.
2026
Aug 22, 2026 · Beijing, China
Held 22–26 August 2026 with 666 teams, 2,056 robots and 51 events. Except for the 100 m and 400 m hurdle races, competitive events required fully autonomous operation. Results are not included in this dataset.
Next: 2027
Aug 2027 · Beijing, China
The event operator announced a third edition in Beijing in August 2027; exact dates had not been published as of 2026-10-08.
Recorded outcomes
Results
100 m sprint (final)
Edition 2025-100m · Aug 17, 2025
Only the winner's placing is stated in the sources. The two Unitree H1 scored times are retained without ranks because no full official classification was published in the sources opened. The 2025 rule multiplied autonomous elapsed times by 0.8 and remote-controlled elapsed times by 1.0, so these are ranking values rather than necessarily raw finish times.
| Rank | Robot / policy | Team | Official scored time (s) | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiangong Ultra | National and Local Co-built Embodied AI Robotics Innovation Center | 0:21.5 | Winner and the only fully autonomous finisher identified by the sources. Science and Technology Daily reports 21.50 s in the same account that explains the 0.8 autonomy coefficient, but does not publish Tiangong Ultra's unweighted elapsed time; 21.50 is therefore stored as the official scored time. | [1][2] |
| — | Unitree H1 | Unitree Robotics | 0:22.08 | Remote-controlled Unitree H1; 22.08 s elapsed and scored time because the remote-control coefficient was 1.0. Placing was not stated. | [2] |
| — | Unitree H1 | Unitree Robotics | 0:24.53 | Remote-controlled Unitree H1; 24.53 s elapsed and scored time because the remote-control coefficient was 1.0. Placing was not stated. | [2] |
- [1]Nanshan-made robot wins historic 100m dash at World Humanoid Robot Games ↗ · People's Government of Nanshan District
- [2]Science and Technology Daily: 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games 100 m final ↗ · Science and Technology Daily
1500 m (final)
Edition 2025-1500m · Aug 15, 2025
Only the winner is listed because the sources we opened give no other 1500 m placings. The team is listed as Unitree Robotics, the maker of the H1.
| Rank | Robot / policy | Team | Finish time (s) | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unitree H1 | Unitree Robotics | 6:34.4 | Officially reported time 6:34.40. Other finishers and their times are not included because no complete official classification was found. | [1] |
- [1]Unitree's H1 robot wins 1,500 meter race as China hosts world's first humanoid games ↗ · Hangzhou Municipal People's Government
400 m (final)
Edition 2025-400m · Aug 15, 2025
Only the winner is listed because the source we opened gives no other 400 m placings.
| Rank | Robot / policy | Team | Official race time (s) | Stopwatch time reported by Unitree (s) | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unitree H1 | Unitree Robotics | 1:28.03 | 1:23.03 | Unitree reports 1:28.03 as the 400 m race result and separately gives a stopwatch time of 1:23.03; the source does not explain the five-second difference. Other finishers and times are not listed. | [1] |
- [1]Unitree sweeps all Day One race golds ↗ · Unitree Robotics
5v5 humanoid football (final)
Edition 2025-5v5-football · Aug 17, 2025
Only the final is listed because the sources opened give no verified bronze-medal result or full classification. Booster Robotics says T1 teams swept every medal in the 3v3 and 5v5 events, and HTWK's event diary identifies the joint HTWK Robots + Nao Devils team's competition platform as Booster T1.
| Rank | Robot / policy | Team | Goals scored (goals) | Goals conceded (goals) | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Booster T1 | Tsinghua University Hephaestus | 1 goals | 0 goals | Won the final 1–0 (Tsinghua University report, 17 August 2025). | [1][2] |
| 2 | Booster T1 | HTWK Robots + Nao Devils (Germany) | 0 goals | 1 goals | Runner-up in the final. The team name is written as on the Tsinghua page. | [1][2][3] |
- [1]Tsinghua University news on the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games football result ↗ · Tsinghua University
- [2]Booster Robotics company history ↗ · Booster Robotics
- [3]HTWK Robots 2025 event diary ↗ · HTWK Robots
Evidence
Sources
- [1]World Humanoid Robot Games SHL ↗RoboCup Federation · accessed Oct 8, 2026
- [2]Tsinghua University news on the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games football result ↗Tsinghua University · accessed Oct 8, 2026
- [3]Unitree sweeps all Day One race golds ↗Unitree Robotics · accessed Oct 8, 2026
- [4]Science and Technology Daily: 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games 100 m final ↗Science and Technology Daily · accessed Oct 8, 2026
- [5]Nanshan-made robot wins historic 100m dash at World Humanoid Robot Games ↗People's Government of Nanshan District · accessed Oct 8, 2026
- [6]2nd World Humanoid Robot Games: Highlights & Ticket Info ↗Beijing Municipal People's Government · accessed Oct 8, 2026
- [7]Booster Robotics company history ↗Booster Robotics · accessed Oct 8, 2026
- [8]Second World Humanoid Robot Games concludes; a new journey begins ↗Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Co., Ltd. · accessed Oct 8, 2026
Quick answers
World Humanoid Robot Games FAQ
Who won 100 m sprint (final) at the 2025-100m World Humanoid Robot Games?
Tiangong Ultra placed first in the structured result record.
Who won 1500 m (final) at the 2025-1500m World Humanoid Robot Games?
Unitree H1 placed first in the structured result record.
Who won 400 m (final) at the 2025-400m World Humanoid Robot Games?
Unitree H1 placed first in the structured result record.
Who won 5v5 humanoid football (final) at the 2025-5v5-football World Humanoid Robot Games?
Booster T1 placed first in the structured result record.
When is the next World Humanoid Robot Games?
2027 is listed for Aug 2027 in Beijing, China.
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