# Humanoid robots can run and box, but folding clothes is the real test

- Source: Robohub
- Published: 2026-10-12T07:51:21.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/xxu44qoxa9ptk3bfndnnwvp7p
- Original: https://robohub.org/humanoid-robots-can-sprint-and-box-but-the-real-test-is-doing-the-laundry/

## Summary

Wai-keung Fung of Cardiff Metropolitan University writes that at the World Humanoid Robot Games 2026, Tiangong Ultra completed the 100 meters in 8.64 seconds, faster than Usain Bolt's 9.58-second world record, but soft manipulation tasks such as folding clothes and doing laundry are a better test of robot intelligence. The article notes that fabric shapes vary widely and skills are hard to transfer directly between robots with different configurations and sensors, and that Open X-Embodiment is exploring this problem by gathering over a million real trajectories from 22 kinds of robots.