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Beijing 2026 · Tier 1

Free Combat

Full contact bouts of three rounds. This is a MIXED-CONTROL cohort: the regulations place manual-remote, whole-body-teleoperated and fully-autonomous entrants in the same class, competing for the same medal. RoboPodium reproduces that official cohort faithfully, and may additionally publish clearly-labelled views segmented by control mode. The organiser published its final placings for 40KG, 58KG and 80KG after the Games closed. Those placings are held here. Bout level results are not yet published in RoboPodium.

3Results held
12Entrants
5Divisions
RoboPodium editorial illustration. Not event photography, and not a depiction of any actual competitor or fixture.
Coverage state
Rules & structure: CompleteEntrants: 12 heldResults: 3 held

RoboPodium holds 3 verified results for this sport, published only after verification against their sources. No complete entrant list, draw or results feed has been verified, so this is not the full record of the competition.

Events

Official results

Published by the organising committee. Placings and figures are recorded exactly as issued; RoboPodium ranks nothing of its own here.

Free combat 58KG

Official Free combat 58KG result
RankEntrant
1Shang Xi GoGo
2Bei Jing Zhi Yuan Sai Dui
3Shang Hai Ti Yu Da Xue Yu Zhi Yuan Ji Qi Ren Lian He Dai Biao Dui
4Tie Quan Zhen Yan Yuan

Free combat 80KG

Official Free combat 80KG result
RankEntrant
1Bei Jing Xin Xi Ke Ji Da Xue - Bei Jing Cheng Shi Xue Yuan
2Qi Yi Dian Dui
3Tu Jing Zhi Xie Dui
4Bei Jing Jiao Tong Da Xue Ji Dian 1 Dui

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Control policy

autonomous · permittedmixed · permittedteleoperated · permitted
This is a mixed-control cohort. The organiser places autonomous, teleoperated and semi-autonomous entrants in the same division, competing for the same medal. RoboPodium reproduces that official cohort exactly as it stands.

Autonomy-segmented view

RoboPodium-derived
RoboPodium-derived view, restricted to fully autonomous competitors. The official competition ranked all control modes together; this is an analytical segmentation, not the official result. combat-control-segmentation v1.0.0

A segmented view will be published alongside the official result once result data exists. It is an analytical cut, never a replacement for the official standing, and competitors whose control mode is unknown are shown in their own group rather than dropped.

Divisions

Divisions in Free Combat at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, with the eligibility envelope and notes for each.
DivisionEligibility envelopeNotes
40KGNo published eligibility limits
58KGNo published eligibility limits
80KGNo published eligibility limits
Free combat HeavyweightHeight > 150.01 cm · mass ≤ 80 kgHeight > 1500 mm, mass <= 80 kg. Mixed-control cohort, as lightweight.
Free combat LightweightHeight 120–150 cm · mass ≤ 40 kgHeight 1200-1500 mm, mass <= 40 kg incl. battery and protective gear. MIXED-CONTROL COHORT: manual remote, whole-body teleoperation and fully autonomous entrants compete together for the same medal.

How a result is structured

Free Combat result definition

Official
Official result as published by the WHRG Organising Committee. RoboPodium reproduces it unchanged.
  • Official final placings are published per weight class, first to fourth, with the size of the class.
  • The scoring below is the regulation. RoboPodium holds no bout, opponent, round or score for this sport, because none has been published.
  • Regular strike (arm or fist to head, torso or thigh): 1 point.
  • High-difficulty strike (leg or foot to head or torso, or a pre-approved technique): 3 points.
  • Knockdown, recovering under own power inside the 10-second count: 6 points.
  • Knockout: 10 points and the round.
  • Fouls: −1 point each, cumulative.
  • Bout: more rounds won → aggregate score → sudden-death overtime, repeated until decided.

Known unknowns

  • The result notices carry a bracket diagram. Its pairings and outcomes are drawn rather than published as data, so no bout, opponent or method is recorded from it.
  • The 2 July regulation defines two weight classes by height and mass. The organiser competed and published three, labelled 40KG, 58KG and 80KG. Both are recorded and neither is rewritten into the other.
  • The weight range each published class stands for is not printed on the notices.
  • The valid-target diagram (figure 16) is an image; precise target boundaries are not machine-readable.
  • Judge count and scorecard format are not stated in either document.

Sources

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