Tien Kung 3.0 Reads a Work Ticket and Checks a Live Cabinet
Day two of the World Robot Conference in Beijing put a humanoid in front of a bank of high-voltage cabinets, not a boxing ring.
Global Times photographed Tien Kung 3.0 at the X-Humanoid booth on August 20, holding a tester against the gear. A company representative told the paper the stack pairs X-Humanoid’s in-house HuiSi KaiWu embodied-intelligence platform with State Grid’s large language model. The pitch: read an operation ticket, interpret the job, walk the aisle, inspect the cabinet. The same representative said there are already benchmark deployments in several provinces.
The rest of the floor was jobs, not dances
The same Global Times dispatch, tied to a 2026 Humanoid Robot Industry Development Report released Thursday at the show, is full of shipment totals. I am parking those. The machines on the floor are the story.
At the National and Local Co-built Humanoid Robotics Innovation Center booth, a firefighting LingLong L2.0 made its first public run: shut a gas valve, cut power, aim an extinguisher, no remote. A WeiLong M2 handled casualty transfers. A XunLong quadruped searched simulated rubble.
Robot++, from Zhejiang, showed wall-climbers that stick to carbon steel with permanent magnets, grind weld coatings, then run magnetic-particle and ultrasonic tests. Engineer Zhao Dekui told Global Times that inspecting a 3,000 cubic meter spherical tank takes workers 15 days to a month with scaffolding. The robots finish grind-plus-inspect in four days without it. One unit covers curvature down to a 2.5-meter diameter. Another mounts a humanoid upper body on the climbing chassis and swaps end tools.
CGTN, covering the same conference on August 20, puts the show at more than 300 companies (69% more than last year) and more than 3,000 exhibits, including more than 300 debut products. It also describes a 1.35-meter, 39-kilogram Tiangong Omni climbing plum-blossom piles and stairs, plus a separate 4-meter electro-hydraulic giant aimed at nuclear, deep-sea, and heavy-load work. Those are different machines from Tien Kung 3.0.
Tien Kung 3.0 itself is not a new name. X-Humanoid launched the platform in February. What is new this week is the inspection cell on the show floor, wired to a utility model, with a company saying it already has provincial sites.
A Human’s Take
I will take a probe on a live cabinet over another kung-fu loop. Reading a work ticket is the part that usually dies in a demo: the robot has to know which switch, not just how to stand.
“Several provinces” is still a phrase. The next receipt is a named substation and a shift count, not a booth crowd filming the cabinet row.