Honda ASIMO vs Tiangong

Honda ASIMO is a retired bipedal research humanoid, first unveiled in 2000 and final active in 2022. The 2011 final version is reported as 130 cm tall, with 57 DoF, walking at 2.7 km/h and running at 9 km/h, powered by a 51.8V lithium-ion battery. Weight is conflicting at 54 kg or 48 kg. ASIMO demonstrated walking, running, hopping, stair climbing, push recovery, face/voice recognition, and serving drinks, but all evidence is from secondary sources or video titles; no official Honda spec sheet, independent benchmark, or commercial deployment is available. It was never sold, only leased to museums and events, and is not currently purchasable

Tiangong is the first full-size biped from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (X-Humanoid), publicly shown on 2024-04-27 as an open, research-oriented platform: 163 cm, 43 kg, fully electric, with a 48 V/15 Ah pack, 3D vision sensors, a high-precision IMU, six-axis force sensors and a claimed 550 trillion operations per second of onboard compute; a directory records 20 total DoF for the launch configuration. The public evidence is essentially locomotion — a claimed stable 6 km/h run and slope/stair traversal described as 'blind' — with no manipulation (the launch robot is reported to lack human-like hands), no task autonomy, no endurance or reliability data and no human-interaction evidence. It is research-only and not for sale, and has been superseded by later Tiangong variants (1.1 PRO, 1.2 MAX, Walker, Ultra, Omni, 2.0, 3.0) whose records must not be credited to this robot