TianGong Omni Is the 1.35 m, 39 kg Member of the Family
X-Humanoid, the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, used the 2026 World Robot Conference to show a smaller body: TianGong Omni. Gasgoo puts it at 1.35 meters and 39 kilograms, aimed at tight spaces, research, guided tours, emergency rescue, and home service. On the floor it walked plum-blossom piles, climbed stairs, did avatar-style interaction, and handled office printing.
That is a different machine from the full-size TianGong Ultra that ran the 100 meters this weekend. Omni is the compact sibling.
Brain on one side, small body on the other
The same Gasgoo report pairs Omni with Pelican-Unify, a unified embodied model that stacks visual-language understanding, an action model, and a world foundation model. The company says that stack already runs on its Tianyi hardware and is meant to drive more than one robot body. StarSea commercialized Pelican VL-2.0; Gasgoo calls Pelican-Unify the first embodied large model in China to get Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) approval, with support for task planning, intent, and human-machine interaction.
Omni ships with a motor-control “cerebellum,” a high-compute multimodal perception stack, and edge deployment of large models. Secondary development sits on the Huisi Kaiwu open ecosystem, which Gasgoo says is there to cut the cost of getting on the platform.
TianGong 3.0 at Mercedes
The announcement is not only Omni. X-Humanoid also said it has a deep partnership with Mercedes-Benz. At WRC, TianGong 3.0 played “silicon-based product specialist”: Gasgoo says it perceived the floor, planned routes, and moved through crowds without a handler, then handled reception, vehicle explanation, and visitor questions. Looking ahead, the same piece says 3.0 is slated for Mercedes dealerships, auto shows, sporting events, livestreams, and delivery ceremonies.
That is the full-size service body, not the 39-kilogram Omni.
On August 23, X-Humanoid posted that Omni had taken a 400-meter gold at the World Humanoid Robot Games. The post is light on a clock time; I am not filling one in from another robot’s heat.
A Human’s Take
A 39-kilogram humanoid that can crawl a pile of stakes is a more interesting product bet than another 1.7-meter sprinter. Homes, rescue, and server aisles are not built for a marathon chassis. The Mercedes bit is the adult in the room: if 3.0 can actually stand a show-floor shift without a handler hovering, that is the demo I will watch twice. Omni still needs a payload number and a price.