Embodied Intelligence 3.0 Launched: Major Advancements in Humanoid Robotics

Embodied Tinker 3.0 has arrived, marking a complete evolution of both its large and small brains! On February 10, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center officially launched the new generation of its general robot platform — Embodied Tinker 3.0. This platform focuses on being “more open and user-friendly,” leveraging the self-developed “Wisdom Opens Things” general embodiment intelligent platform to achieve significant enhancements in key areas such as body stability, motion control, coordination between large and small brains, and fully autonomous operations.

Additionally, Embodied Tinker 3.0 has become the first full-sized humanoid robot in the industry to implement interactive full-body high-dynamic motion control. In terms of physical performance, the robot stands at 169 cm tall and weighs 62 kg, capable of humanoid walking and running. It is equipped with high-torque integrated joints (with a peak torque of 400 N·m), providing exceptional physical explosiveness that can easily meet the high load demands of specialized tasks.

Even on rugged terrain or in environments with complex obstacles, it can maintain body posture stability thanks to sufficient torque output, overcoming the limitations of various scenarios and operational requirements. With a high degree of freedom structure (43 degrees of freedom across the body) and comprehensive coordination control capabilities, Embodied Tinker 3.0 can stably perform complex movements such as overcoming obstacles approximately 1 meter high and executing continuous high-explosion actions.

Its flexible torso and upper limb movement range also support complex dexterous control scenarios, including operations that require kneeling or bending in confined spaces, maintaining precise operational capabilities even in restricted postures. Furthermore, the robot’s multi-degree-of-freedom design enables precise joint linkage and action fine-tuning, calibrating operational accuracy to the millimeter level, perfectly aligning with the needs of industrial manufacturing, effectively avoiding operational deviations, and ensuring quality while enhancing generalization capabilities.

Notably, Embodied Tinker 3.0 reserves various types of expansion interfaces, supporting flexible integration with a range of peripheral tools in a “more open” manner. This allows for quick adaptations to specialized tasks, industrial manufacturing, commercial services, and more, achieving seamless integration with mainstream industry systems, significantly reducing development costs and entry barriers across various sectors.

On the software side, it relies on the “Wisdom Opens Things” platform ecosystem, offering comprehensive development documentation, toolchains, and a low-code development platform. This encapsulates complex technical capabilities into user-friendly operational processes, fully compatible with mainstream communication middleware and cloud protocols such as ROS2, MQTT, and TCP/IP. Partners can initiate customized secondary development without needing to restructure underlying technologies, effectively shortening development cycles.

The “Wisdom Opens Things” general embodiment intelligent platform serves as the core support for making Embodied Tinker 3.0 “more user-friendly.” It constructs a full chain closed-loop of “perception-decision-execution,” helping robots gradually move away from remote control and manual intervention, transitioning from single-machine operations to multi-machine autonomous collaboration. The large brain, driven by AI large models including the world model and VLM model, acts as the cognitive center, processing questions about “what it is” and “why it is,” understanding visual scenes and human language commands, reasoning with common sense, and breaking down complex tasks into step-by-step plans.

Meanwhile, the small brain, driven by VLA models and fully autonomous navigation capabilities, is responsible for real-time perception, obstacle avoidance, and precise action execution, enabling stable and efficient operations even in complex and variable environments. More importantly, the multi-agent collaboration application system built on the “Wisdom Opens Things” general embodiment intelligent platform possesses cross-body compatibility and asynchronous collaborative autonomous scheduling capabilities, achieving a genuine “one brain, multiple machines, one brain, multiple abilities,” providing a practical, replicable path for real-world applications.

The Beijing Humanoid continues to focus on the direction of “more open, more user-friendly,” leveraging advanced physical performance and embodiment intelligence technologies, allowing humanoid robots to truly “work and work effectively.” To further refine this open ecosystem, Beijing Humanoid has also made several key technological achievements open source based on the “Embodied Tinker” and “Wisdom Opens Things” platforms. These include the embodied Tinker body, control framework, world model, embodied VLM large model, cross-body VLA large model, embodiment intelligence training toolchain, embodied dataset RoboMIND, and embodied simulation assets ArtVIP.

According to reports, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center was established in 2023, initiated by institutions such as Beijing Electromechanical, UBTECH, Yizhuang Robot, and ShouCheng Holdings, aiming to create a world-class innovation platform for embodied intelligent robots. In terms of core technological breakthroughs, the center has repeatedly set industry milestones, continually pushing the limits of humanoid robot technology on a global scale.

In April 2025, its independently developed “Embodied Tinker Ultra” humanoid robot completed a half marathon (21.0975 kilometers) in a time of 2 hours, 40 minutes, and 42 seconds, securing the first championship for humanoid robots in the world. In August of the same year, at the World Humanoid Robot Games, the center’s self-developed Embodied Tinker Ultra and Tianyi 2.0 robots excelled, winning a total of 2 golds, 6 silvers, and 2 bronzes. Notably, Embodied Tinker Ultra won the 100-meter race with a fully autonomous running time of 21.50 seconds, becoming the first humanoid robot to achieve such a feat.

Equipped with the “Wisdom Opens Things” platform, Tianyi 2.0 demonstrated strong versatility and autonomous operational capabilities, successfully securing first and second place in the material organization competition by accurately inserting 27 slender materials with a diameter of only 8 millimeters into designated holes, showcasing exceptional fine object grasping ability, stability, and operational precision.

Based on solid technical foundations, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center has built mature and replicable embodied intelligent solutions around core fields such as specialized operations, industrial manufacturing, and commercial services, actively promoting the transition of technology from laboratory settings to real-world applications. Currently, the center has established deep strategic partnerships with leading companies in various industries, including the China Electric Power Research Institute, Foton Cummins, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and Li Ning Group, focusing on high-risk, high-intensity, and repetitive labor scenarios to accelerate the practical application of embodied intelligent technology, effectively serving various sectors of production and daily life.

In specific application deployments, “Embodied Tinker 2.0” and “Tianyi 2.0” have successfully entered the Foton Cummins engine factory, autonomously completing tasks such as material box retrieval and placement on “unmanned production lines,” flexibly adapting to different cargo heights and various box types. Simultaneously, Beijing Humanoid collaborates with the China Electric Power Research Institute to apply humanoid robots in high-risk electrical inspection scenarios, reducing the risks of human operations. In partnership with Li Ning’s sports science laboratory, humanoid robots are employed to conduct long-duration, high-intensity running shoe tests, aiding in product development and upgrades.

Recently, Beijing Humanoid signed a cooperation agreement with Bayer Pharmaceuticals to jointly promote the application of humanoid robots and embodied intelligent technology in the technical development of solid drug manufacturing, packaging, quality control, warehousing, and logistics.

To support the large-scale production and technological iteration of embodied intelligent robots, Beijing Humanoid has recently launched its pilot testing platform. This platform, which will be completed and put into production by 2025, covers an area of 9,700 square meters, focusing on the technical verification and application needs of embodied intelligent robots. It features comprehensive foundational infrastructure, professional intelligent equipment, and a demonstration line for complete machine production, joint production lines, and small-batch trial production lines, as well as a testing area for embodied intelligent robots and a digital operation and maintenance platform. Currently, the platform is equipped with 500 sets of trial production and testing equipment, with an annual production capacity of 5,000 sets of embodied intelligent robots, and has already delivered the 1,000th customized prototype.

Furthermore, the platform is open to enterprises across the industry chain, universities, and research institutions, providing one-stop services for trial production, performance verification, process optimization, module assembly, complete machine assembly, and testing validation.

In terms of financing, on February 3, it was reported that the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center has completed its first round of over 700 million yuan market financing. This round of financing attracted investments from the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, Yizhuang Guotou, Beijing High-Precision Fund, Huakong Fund, and other well-known investment institutions, as well as strategic investments from industry players like Baidu and Dongtu Technology. The funding will primarily focus on the technological iteration and large-scale promotion of the “Embodied Tinker” and “Wisdom Opens Things” core platforms, further advancing the evolution of embodied intelligent robots towards being “fully autonomous and more user-friendly.”

The launch of Embodied Tinker 3.0 represents another significant milestone in Beijing Humanoid’s journey towards building an embodied intelligent ecosystem. “More open, more agile, and more user-friendly,” Embodied Tinker 3.0 not only solidifies the technological foundation of the embodied intelligent industry but also injects core momentum for the large-scale application of the industry.