The Cyborg Index · September 2026 edition
Chinese Humanoid Robots — September 2026
Humanoids from China-headquartered makers, read against exactly the same framework as everyone else — no separate scale, no regional allowance. Ranks shown are positions in the full cohort, so a robot's place here is directly comparable to the global table.
Agibot A2 (Agibot (Zhiyuan Robotics)) leads the China-headquartered humanoids in the September 2026 Cyborg Index, ahead of UBTech Walker S (UBTech) and Kepler Forerunner K3 (Kepler Robotics). 7 of the 13 humanoids in this edition are China-headquartered humanoids, scored on the same 40 capability measures as the rest of the cohort.
Ranks are positions in the full 13-humanoid cohort, so they stay comparable with the complete Index and with side-by-side comparisons.
Questions
- Which Chinese humanoid robot ranks highest right now?
- In the September 2026 edition, Agibot A2 from Agibot (Zhiyuan Robotics) holds the highest Capability score in this list. That is a reading of the public evidence record at sign-off, not a claim about undisclosed internal capability.
- How is this list ordered?
- By Capability score: each humanoid is read across eight capability axes and 40 sub-axes, each scored 0–5 from public evidence, then levelled so the same number means the same thing on every robot. Sub-axes with no public evidence score zero over a fixed denominator, so silence is never rewarded.
- How often does this list change?
- Monthly. Each edition is dated and kept as published; this page re-states itself from the newest signed-off edition rather than being rewritten by hand.
- Are Chinese humanoids scored differently?
- No. The framework, the evidence ceilings and the levelling are identical. The only difference on this page is the filter: it shows makers headquartered in China, and the rank shown is the robot's position in the full global cohort.
How the scores are built: methodology.