HUMANOID, Edinburgh — UK sales opened for the TianGong and Tianyi humanoids
From the Robots digest for 2026-10-12
What happened: An Edinburgh-based robotics firm, HUMANOID, has opened UK sales for the TianGong and Tianyi humanoid robots, inviting expressions of interest from UK buyers (The Business Desk, published October 12, 2026, ~8:50 AM ET). TianGong carries the 8.64-second 100m sprint figure the piece leads with.
What's genuinely new: A UK sales/distribution touchpoint for the TianGong platform — the record carries that sprinter from the World Humanoid Robot Games (August 26, 2026, recorded September 10) under Beijing's state-backed X-Humanoid lineage, with the spectacle-to-workshop arc already logged in the "robots — China industrial shift: EV makers to humanoids, JD.com's 3 million robots" storyline. A UK sales channel is a go-to-market datum, not a spectacle one — but the capture does not state whether HUMANOID is a distributor or the maker's own sales vehicle, and that distinction decides which thread this belongs to.
Watch: Whether HUMANOID is a distributor or the manufacturer's sales vehicle (the record's 8.64s TianGong sits with X-Humanoid, state-backed), whether expressions of interest convert to named UK customers or pilots, unit counts and pricing in UK sales, and whether the Tianyi model — absent from the record so far — gets its first specification table.
Links: The Business Desk