Who took gold at Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games: a roundup of the winning robots and what the scores reveal.

At Beijing's second World Humanoid Robot Games, robots beat the human 100m record (9.39s), quadrupled entrants, and rewrote the rules on autonomy. What the scoreboard really measures.

An introductory guide to China's embodied AI industry: what embodied AI is, the five-layer value chain, five coordinates for 2026 (policy, capital, production, listings, consolidation), and a practical method for reading the industry. China accounts for 97% of humanoid robot shipments worldwide and raised RMB 93.5 billion (~$13B) in the first half of 2026.
