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Perth Now
07-07-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
Robots take part in AI-powered football game in China
Robots have taken part in the first artificial intelligence-powered football game. Tsinghua University's THU Robotics battled it out against the Mountain Sea team in a three Vs three match in Beijing, China. The event - which was held before the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Sports Games in the Chinese capital in August - was won by THU Robotics. The final score was 5-3. Speaking about the tournament, which took place on June 28, Dou Jing, executive director of the event's organising committee and deputy general manager of Shangyicheng Technology and Culture Group, told the Global Times: "This is the first fully autonomous AI robot football match in China. "It represents a combination of technological innovation and industrial application, as well as an important window for bringing robots into public life and real-world scenarios."
Fox News
06-07-2025
- Sport
- Fox News
Autonomous humanoid robot soccer debuts in China
In a futuristic showdown that captured global attention, four teams of autonomous humanoid robots competed in China's first AI-powered soccer tournament. The event took place in Beijing's Yizhuang Development Zone as part of the Robo League robot football tournament, marking a significant milestone for real-world artificial intelligence competition in China. Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet my best tech tips, urgent security alerts and exclusive deals delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, you'll get instant access to my Ultimate Scam Survival Guide — free when you join my Unlike remote-controlled robot matches, this tournament featured zero human intervention. Each team had three active humanoid robots plus a substitute, playing two ten-minute halves with a five-minute break. The robots ran, walked, kicked and even made real-time decisions using AI and sensors. Cameras and optical sensors allowed them to detect the ball from 65 feet away with more than 90% accuracy. They also recognized teammates, field markings, goals and opponents. Despite a slightly awkward gait, the robots operated fully on their own, acting and reacting without any external commands. "This is the first fully autonomous AI robot football match in China. It represents a combination of technological innovation and industrial application," said Dou Jing, executive director of the organizing committee. Beyond entertainment, the event offered a serious glimpse into how AI and robotics could integrate into public life. It demonstrated how far real-world autonomy has come and how these systems can function in unpredictable environments. Dou added that the match was a step toward bringing intelligent machines into everyday scenarios. The event also served as a preview for the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Sports Games, which will be hosted in Beijing from August 15-17. The games will include eleven events modeled after traditional sports, including track and field, gymnastics, soccer and synchronized dancing. It will be the city's second major humanoid sports event after a half-marathon. Organizers noted that while the robots still face challenges, such as dynamic obstacle avoidance, progress is happening quickly. For this event, collisions were allowed as long as they were not malicious. One co-organizer compared the level of play to that of 5 or 6-year-old children but expressed optimism that skill levels would improve with better hardware and AI training. The THU Robotics team from Tsinghua University defeated the Mountain Sea team from China Agricultural University 5-3. Earlier, China also hosted a humanoid vs. human long-distance race, where the top robot completed a 13-mile course in two hours and 40 minutes. The fastest human finished in just over one hour, but the comparison showed how far walking robots have come. As Beijing prepares to host the 2025 global games, robot soccer is starting to feel less like a gimmick and more like a glimpse into how intelligent machines could soon play a significant role in our everyday lives. Watching robots play soccer without any human help is a peek into where AI and robotics are headed. These machines are learning fast, and while they're still a little wobbly, the future of autonomous technology looks anything but uncertain. If this is the starting point, imagine what they'll be capable of in just a few years. Would you stream a robot soccer match? Or is AI just not your kind of athlete? Let us know by writing to us at Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet my best tech tips, urgent security alerts and exclusive deals delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, you'll get instant access to my Ultimate Scam Survival Guide — free when you join my Copyright 2025 All rights reserved.
UPI
02-07-2025
- Sport
- UPI
Watch: AI-powered robots face off in soccer tournament in China
July 2 (UPI) -- The first ROBO League robot soccer tournament took place in China, pitting AI-powered teams of robot players against one another in 3 vs. 3 matches. The tournament, held Saturday in Beijing, drew a crowd of thousands of curious spectators to watch the robots attempt to score goals using strategies determined by AI. "This is the first fully autonomous AI robot football match in China," Dou Jing, executive director of the tournament organizing committee and deputy general manager of Shangyicheng Technology and Culture Group, told the Global Times. "It represents a combination of technological innovation and industrial application, as well as an important window for bringing robots into public life and real-world scenarios." The tournament ended with the THU Robotics team from Tsinghua University defeating the Mountain Sea team from China Agricultural University team 5-3. The event was held in the lead-up to the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Sports Games, which will be held in Beijing in August.
AllAfrica
01-07-2025
- AllAfrica
China to hold first World Humanoid Robot Games
China will hold an international sports game for humanoid robots in August to demonstrate Chinese robots' capabilities in performing complex body movements. Following the world's first humanoid robots' marathon in April and kickboxing match in May, both held in China, the first World Humanoid Robot Games (WHRG) will be held in Beijing from August 15 to 17. More than 100 international teams will join the sports events. Beijing will also host the 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC) from August 8 to 12. Chen Ying, vice president and secretary-general of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, said the WRC will feature more than 200 exhibitors, a fifth of them foreign firms. He added that more than 30 renowned global experts will attend the WRC. Chinese robot makers including United and AgiBot will showcase their latest humanoid models. As a curtain raiser of the WHRG, a 3 vs 3 football match for humanoid robots called the 2025RoBoLeague, co-organized by China's Booster Robotics and state-owned Shangyicheng (Beijing) Technology and Culture Group, kicked off in Beijing on June 28. To ensure fairness, all teams must use Booster's T1 robots. 'This is the first test match of the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games, and also the first fully autonomous AI robot football match in China,' said Dou Jing, executive director of the tournament organizing committee and deputy general manager of Shangyicheng (Beijing) Technology and Culture Group. 'This competition achieved two major technical breakthroughs: firstly, all participating robots operated entirely based on AI-driven strategies, requiring no human intervention, including autonomous fall recovery,' Cheng Hao, founder of Booster Robotics, told the Global Times. 'Secondly, the tournament introduced an optimized penalty and referee system, significantly reducing game interruptions and enhancing the flow and intensity of matches.' Cheng said football, as a typical scenario of confrontation and collaboration, provides the public with an intuitive understanding of the real-world application potential of humanoid robots. reported that after three hours of competition, a team from Tsinghua University won the football match. It added that the competition demonstrated robots' technical achievements in motion control, visual perception, positioning and navigation, decision-making planning, and multi-machine collaboration. According to footage, some robots lost balance for no reason. Some could not get up and had to be taken away by staff members. A robot kicked the ball into its team's net and then collided with another robot. Shangyicheng said it will continue to deepen the construction of the robot industry ecosystem, promote collaborative innovation among cerebrum, cerebellum, body and core component companies, and promote the deep integration of industry. Many Chinese academics have called for the simultaneous development of humanoid robots' cerebrum (decision making), cerebellum (body control), and body for industrial use. 'Most Chinese robot makers use large language models (LLMs) to develop robotic cerebrum, but the development of their robotic cerebellum remains weak, particularly regarding using camera images to control robotic hands and upper bodies,' said Wang He, an assitant professor at Peking University's Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies (CFCS). 'Some robot makers are still using the decade-old technology of sweeping robots to make humanoid robots,' he added. Wang said it will take some more years before Chinese robots can significantly improve their cerebrum-cerebellum-body coordination, serve people at home and work in factories. In April, Beijing hosted the world's first half-marathon for humanoid robots. Twenty-one robots participated in the race, but only six completed the 21-kilometer course. In May, the China Media Group (CMG) World Robot Competition-Mecha Fighting Series, the first-ever humanoid robot fighting tournament, kicked off in Hangzhou. All four fighters are Unitree G1 robots. The latest football match between Booster's T1 robots on June 28 also concerned Chinese robots' lower body and self-balancing capability, not their in-hand manipulation ability. The coming WHRG, organized by the Beijing municipal government, may satisfy some Chinese robot fans and investors, who want to see robots' hands and brains. The WHRG will include 22 events, including sports, dancing and scenario competitions. In the scenario competition, humanoid robots will perform factory, hospital, and hotel tasks. In addition, non-humanoid robots will play badminton, table tennis, and basketball. The other events will still focus on the lower body. In sports competitions, humanoid robots will compete in seven track-and-field events, including 100 meters, 400 meters, 1500 meters, 4×100 meters relay, 100 meters obstacle race, standing long jump and standing high jump – as well as free gymnastics and 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3and 5 vs 5 football matches. There will be two dancing competitions for singles and multiple robots. Making full-body robots are more than 20 companies in China including Unitree, Booster, Xiaomi, Xpeng and Agibot. Some analysts said these companies know the importance of robotic arms and hands, but prefer to achieve locomotion and lower production costs to boost revenue and market shares. Without revenue growth, they can't raise more funds for further expansion. Li Chaoyi, head of globalization at Booster Robotics, said in a speech during the Humanoids Summit in London on May 29 that the company now focuses on mobility and robustness, while viewing manipulation (arms and hands) as a modular area where third-party developers can innovate independently. 'We see more and more companies focusing on manipulation, and that part can absolutely be commercialized on its own,' Li said. 'You could have dedicated developers building manipulation agents for different humanoid robots.' 'Our vision is that these modules– like arms – can be plugged into different platforms. The core challenge will be integration with locomotion and balance,' he said. Li also said Booster's T1 robot now costs US$34,000. He said the company wants to cut costs and reduce prices to below US$10,000 to make the technology accessible to a broader market, including individuals, small startups and universities. Key robotic arm or dexterous hand makers in China include Elephant Robotics, Inspired Robots and RealMan Robotics. Read: US Trojan horse alarms pushing China's robots to Europe
New York Post
26-06-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Humanoid robots guided by AI set to compete in first 3-on-3 soccer game
Soccer is getting a high-tech upgrade in Beijing this weekend, and the players aren't just fast — they're fully robotic. The RoBoLeague World Robot Soccer League will host its final match in the city's Yizhuang Development Zone on Saturday, where teams of humanoid robots will go head-to-head in a 3-on-3 soccer game in which the players are completely controlled by artificial intelligence. This competition, which is believed to be the first-ever 3-on-3 match between robots, is a preview for next year's World Humanoid Robot Games, and four Chinese teams made up of robot players have earned their spots in the finals after a series of qualifiers. Advertisement The robots, which won't have any human assistance, will play two 10-minute halves, with a 5-minute break. 4 Humanoid robots line up on the field before kickoff during a fully autonomous soccer match in Beijing. CCTV During a Thursday training session, teams from Tsinghua University and Beijing Information Science and Technology University showed off their robot players. The machines may walk a little awkwardly, but they can run, kick, and chase the ball — all on their own. Advertisement 'The World Robot Soccer League will be the first test competition for the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games and China's first-ever 3-versus-3 AI humanoid robot football match as well, which will put the participating robots' endurance and agility to the test,' Dou Jing, one of the event organizers, told China Central Television (CCTV). How do the robots know where to go? Each one is equipped with cameras and sensors that allow it to 'see' the field and figure out where the ball is. 'At present, all the visual recognition and positioning abilities of the robot are accomplished through optical cameras,' explained Wang Yonghao, who is in charge of the competition's operations. 4 A team of AI-powered robots prepares to defend the goal in a pre-match training session. CCTV Advertisement 'For instance, during the football match, it needs to first identify a white, round ball, or an object of a similar size. Then we make sure that the color white or any other similar color will not appear on the robots' feet, on the body of the on-site staff and referees, including their shoes or other objects on them,' he told CCTV. The robots have been trained with deep reinforcement learning — a type of artificial intelligence that helps them learn through trial and error. 4 Two opposing robot teams chase the ball mid-game under stadium lights at the RoBoLeague finals. CCTV 'The robot should be able to see the football nearly 20 meters away at an accuracy rate of over 90 percent,' said Cheng Hao, founder and CEO of Booster Robotics. Advertisement 'First, it should be able to tell what or where the ball, the goal, or the pitch is, and afterward it needs to make decisions about the role it is going to play based on all these inputs.' 4 Robot players in red and blue uniforms square off as the match begins in the world's first 3-on-3 humanoid soccer competition. CCTV The machine would then need to either advance the ball to a teammate or kick it toward the net to score a goal. 'All these are the technological challenges we aim to address at the moment. Of course, as the technology evolves, all these capabilities can be achieved for the robot now,' Cheng said. Saturday's game is just the beginning. Beijing will host the full World Humanoid Robot Games from August 15 to 17 as part of the World Robot Conference — the first global sporting event where every competitor is built, not born.
