July 17, 2026 – Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics (X-Humanoid) participated in the third stop of its “Energy Transfer” real-world technology challenge series at Sayram Lake in Xinjiang. Set amid alpine meadows at an elevation of over 2,000 meters, Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 and Embodied Tien Kung Omni made their first joint appearance, completing two challenge tasks incorporating elements of China’s intangible cultural heritage—horseback archery and dombra performance—in an unstructured natural environment. The demonstrations showcased the latest advances in motion control and intelligent interaction for humanoid robots operating in real-world scenarios.
The soft rolling grasslands, scattered rocks, and haystacks around Sayram Lake created a far more demanding testing environment than factory production lines or urban exhibition venues. Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 successfully completed a traditional recurve archery challenge across entirely natural terrain. Throughout the full sequence—from drawing the bow and aiming to releasing the arrow—the robot continuously searched for optimal footholds on the compliant ground, maintained torso stability against the asymmetric forces generated during bow drawing, and executed force release with millimeter-level precision. The coordinated transmission of force throughout the robot’s body, from its feet to its fingertips, demonstrated precise and stable whole-body control.
The horseback archery challenge further increased the level of difficulty. Mounted on a mechanical horse with only a narrow rigid saddle for support and with both legs suspended without external support, Embodied Tien Kung 3.0 independently completed the entire process of drawing, aiming, and shooting. The key technical challenge lay in decoupling upper- and lower-body control. While the lower body continuously generated joint torque to maintain a stable riding posture, the upper body independently performed precise manipulation in an open environment. The two control systems operated collaboratively under unified dynamic constraints, demonstrating the robot’s advanced joint torque control and whole-body balance capabilities.
Complementing the power-intensive archery demonstration, Embodied Tien Kung Omni performed a collaborative musical performance alongside a Kazakh dombra master on the lakeshore. The dombra, one of the most iconic traditional string instruments of the Kazakh people, features a short neck and closely spaced strings, requiring highly precise left-hand fingering and agile right-hand plucking. Every note places extremely high demands on fingertip precision and dexterity.
Using wireless full-body teleoperation technology, Embodied Tien Kung Omni accurately reproduced the operator’s finger trajectories and force profiles in real time. Its robotic fingers precisely pressed each fret and plucked the strings in synchronization with the musician, creating a seamless collaboration between centuries-old intangible cultural heritage and state-of-the-art humanoid robotics.
The Sayram Lake challenge validated four core technologies. The first was complex-terrain locomotion, which combines multimodal perception to construct real-time local terrain models and dynamically adjust gait parameters and foothold placement to ensure safe locomotion across unstructured terrain. The second was dynamic adaptive whole-body motion control, which incorporates all degrees of freedom into a full-state optimization framework, enabling millisecond-level torque redistribution across the entire body in response to external disturbances while maintaining operational accuracy and balance. The third was upper- and lower-body decoupled motion control, allowing the robot to maintain lower-body stability while performing independent, high-precision upper-body manipulation. The fourth was wireless full-body teleoperation, which provides high-fidelity motion mapping between the human operator and the robot, enabling centimeter-level precision in remote operations.
These capabilities are powered by two foundational technology platforms developed by X-Humanoid. The Embodied Tien Kung universal robot platform provides a full-size, fully electric humanoid robot featuring high-power-density joint modules and a lightweight structural design, ensuring robust mobility and structural reliability in challenging outdoor environments. Meanwhile, Wise Kaiwu, the universal embodied AI platform, serves as the robot’s intelligent brain by integrating perception, planning, and execution into a unified framework. Its multimodal perception system continuously constructs environmental models, while its whole-body motion planning framework generates optimal action sequences that are executed through high-bandwidth closed-loop control for precise physical interaction.
To date, the “Energy Transfer” challenge series has completed three real-world deployments. The Fuding Tea Mountain challenge verified the upper limits of robotic fingertip force control. The Bazhong Dragon Boat challenge tested coordinated heavy-load control across multiple joints. The Sayram Lake challenge marked the first deployment featuring two humanoid robot models simultaneously, demonstrating both strength-oriented and dexterous manipulation capabilities while extending testing from indoor and semi-structured environments to fully natural, unstructured outdoor settings.
X-Humanoid continues to advance embodied AI from demonstration environments into real-world applications across fields, rivers, lakesides, and other complex scenarios. The “Energy Transfer” initiative will continue to expand into additional industries, exploring broader commercial and practical applications for humanoid robots. Across every industry, discover the possibilities of Tien Kung.
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