Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics (X-Humanoid) used the second day of the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, August 21, 2026 to launch two flagship products — the Pelican-Unify unified embodied-intelligence model and the lightweight TianGong Omni robot — and to announce a strategic partnership with Mercedes-Benz.
Pelican-Unify: brain that drives the whole line-up
Pelican-Unify combines a vision-language model, an action model and a World Foundation Model into a single stack that spans perception, reasoning, rehearsal and execution. X-Humanoid says a single "brain" can now drive different robot bodies across factory, service and rescue scenarios, and the architecture is already running on the Tianyi hardware platform. The Pelican VL-2.0 variant is China's first embodied large model approved by the Cyberspace Administration.
TianGong Omni: 1.35m, 39kg, all-terrain
The new TianGong Omni humanoid stands 1.35 metres tall and weighs 39 kilograms, and is designed for tight-space operations, guided tours, emergency rescue and home services. On the show floor it navigated plum-blossom stepping stones, climbed stairs and handled office printing tasks. The robot ships with a "cerebellum" motor-control layer, multimodal edge perception and the Huisi Kaiwu open ecosystem for third-party development, extending the line-up unveiled at last week's World Humanoid Robot Games and the parallel Tiangong 2.0 debut.
Mercedes-Benz turns humanoids into dealership staff
Under the new Mercedes-Benz deal, TianGong 3.0 will roll out to Mercedes-Benz dealerships, auto shows, sporting events, livestreams and customer lifestyle events, taking on reception, vehicle explanations, customer inquiries and delivery-ceremony duties. On stage in Beijing the robot autonomously perceived the environment, planned routes through crowds and delivered pitches without human intervention, joining a growing list of automaker-humanoid tie-ups like Xiaomi's Tieda launch.
Reporting based on coverage from Gasgoo Auto News and CGTN.