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World Humanoid Robot Games see robot athletes going for gold

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Robot athletes are going for the gold in Beijing, China, as the first ever World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off on Thursday.

As reported by Reuters, the event, held within Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval, involves over 500 humanoid robots across 280 teams from 16 countries including China, the U.S., Brazil, and Germany. The teams come from both global universities and private robotics companies including China’s Unitree Robotics, Noetix Robotics, and Fourier Intelligence.

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Remotely operated by their human teams, the robots will be tested for agility and skill competing in 26 events like football, martial arts, gymnastics, and track and field events like running and a 100-metre obstacle race. The robots must fit a long list of criteria including that they “must be self-developed, purchased or leased by the participating teams,” they “must have a trunk, upper limbs, and two feet,” and “should have their own energy sources.” There are also event-specific restrictions, like robots competing in long jump or high jump events can’t use elastic or take-off devices.

The games expands on multiple robot sporting events held in China this year, including the world’s first humanoid half-marathon in April and a robot kickboxing match in May.

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Robots play football at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games.

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Unitree won the first gold of the event on Friday, with one of its speedy Unitree H1 humanoid robots finishing the 1,500-metre race at 6:34.

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Various media sites are running livestreamed coverage of the World Humanoid Robot Games including Reuters and the South China Morning Post, if you want to catch up on the action. The games run until Sunday and there are tickets being sold to the public.

It’s quite something, seeing human teams running alongside their robotic representatives on the track, and watching robot football players shuffle across the small field, raising their arms in victory as their stressed out human controllers buzz around laptops on the sideline. There are various falls and not a drop of sweat in sight (on the athletes, at least).

A robot lies on the track at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games.

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Thursday’s opening ceremony is also worth a watch, with a full robot band, tiny robots dancing alongside human children, a robot fashion parade, and panda robots demonstrating martial arts.


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The organisers of the World Humanoid Robot Games — the Beijing Municipal People’s Government, China Central Radio and Television, the World Robotics Cooperation Organization, and the Robocup Asia-Pacific International Council — said in an online statement that the point of the event was to “build an international platform integrating technological competition, economic promotion, and international exchange.”

“By establishing a competitive and showcase platform, the tournament aims to accelerate and enhance the integration of robots into human life, contribute to economic and social progress, and foster the deep integration of science, technology, sports, and culture,” the statement reads.

Competitive robotics events aren’t new, but it’s the scale of the World Humanoid Robot Games that marks a global PR opportunity for China amid its rapid expansion of robot production to compete with the U.S.. China’s National Development and Reform Commission announced plans in March to invest ¥1 trillion ($138 billion) into robotics over the next two decades. Plus, the country increased industrial robot installation by five percent in 2024, and now owns the world’s largest robot market.



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