World Humanoid Robot Games 2025 Results With 500+ Robots and 487 Matches

The official event name was 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games. Chinese organizer material uses 2025世界人形机器人运动会 and describes it as the inaugural edition.

The event was jointly hosted by the Beijing Municipal People’s Government, China Media Group, the World Robot Cooperation Organization and the RCAP International Council. Beijing municipal agencies, Chaoyang District, education and industry bodies were among the event’s co-organizers.

Final organizer reporting counted 280 teams from 16 countries across five continents. The field used more than 500 humanoid robots representing 127 brands.

The Beijing pre-event briefing identified 192 school teams and 88 enterprise or club teams. It named universities including Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Shandong University. Companies named in the briefing included Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, Unitree, Booster Robotics, Songyan Dynamics, Fourier and Galaxea AI.

The final program contained 26 events and 487 matches. Athletics included the 100 m, 400 m, 1500 m and 4×100 m relay. The schedule also included football, floor exercise, dance, martial arts and freestyle combat.

Scenario competitions tested material handling, sorting, medicine related work and hotel services. These events put locomotion, perception and manipulation into scored workflows rather than treating movement as the only measure of performance.

The official 2025 competition framework allowed manual remote control or fully autonomous control in many events. Floor exercise, solo dance and group dance were required to run fully autonomously.

The 100 m final also used a scoring adjustment tied to control mode. Beijing reporting states that the fully autonomous Tiangong entry received a 0.8 time coefficient. That means its published 21.50-second winning result should not be read as a raw stopwatch time.

The Tiangong team from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center won the 100 m with an official scored result of 21.50 seconds. Beijing reporting says Tiangong and Tianxiao used Tiangong Ultra robots and ran without remote control using vision and lane keeping.

Tianxiao fell during the final and did not record a result. Unitree affiliated Lingyi Technology and Gaoyi Technology finished second and third. The documented fall is useful context because the race tested both speed and the stability needed to finish.

A Unitree H1 won the 1500 m in 6 minutes 34.40 seconds. Xinhua also reported that the same robot model won the 400 m in 1 minute 28.03 seconds.

The 1500 m exposed a different engineering problem from the sprint. Teams had to sustain gait stability, cornering, thermal behavior and control over several minutes rather than maximize acceleration for one straight.

Tsinghua Hephaestus faced Germany’s HTWK Robots + Nao Devils in the 5v5 final and won 1 to 0. The only goal came from an own goal in the first half.

The event’s official closing report described the 5v5 match as fully autonomous. That makes football a distinct test from track racing because the robots had to perceive a changing scene, find the ball, maintain balance and make team decisions without a fixed lane.

Beijing Municipal Government reporting confirms that Songyan Dynamics won the floor exercise with its Little Rascal humanoid. The robot scored 41.6 points.

The result measured whole body coordination and execution quality rather than race speed. The official rules scored required movements including balance poses, jumps, inversions, rolls and flips.

Official and state media coverage recorded falls, lane drift and recovery problems during the 2025 Games. Tianxiao’s fall in the 100 m final is one clear example documented by Beijing authorities.

Those failures should not be converted into broad claims about all humanoids. They show a narrower point. High speed locomotion still had a significant stability cost and repeated task completion remained difficult for many systems.

The second Games expanded from 280 to 666 teams, from more than 500 to 2,056 robots, from 26 to 51 events and from 487 to 1,301 matches. Formal competition grew from three days to five.

Keeping the inaugural edition on its existing archive URL prevents its results and autonomy rules from being mixed with the 2026 format.