Tienyi
Tienyi (Tian Yi, 天轶) is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by X-Humanoid (Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center), a national-level innovation platform established in November 2023. It combines a humanoid upper body for manipulation and interaction with a wheeled mobile base for indoor navigation, targeting patrol inspection, guided reception, and autonomous task execution in offices, factories, and industrial sites. It is the predecessor to the Tian Yi 2.0, which has been deployed at Foton Cummins engine plants and achieved top rankings in the World Humanoid Robot Games material-handling competition.
Primary use case: Service and industrial robotics: patrol inspection, guided reception, and autonomous manipulation tasks in offices and industrial environments
DOF
35
Specifications
Physical
Degrees of Freedom
35
Locomotion
Wheeled
Manipulation
Hand Type
unknown
Power & Autonomy
Autonomy Level
semi_autonomous
AI & Compute
AI Capabilities
vision, speech, navigation, planning
Commercial
Availability
Research Only
Primary Use Case
Service and industrial robotics: patrol inspection, guided reception, and autonomous manipulation tasks in offices and industrial environments
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