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World's First 'Robot Olympics' Featured Soccer, Kickboxing and Lots of Falling Down

More than 500 humanoid robots and thousands of spectators traveled to Beijing over the weekend for a sporting event straight out of a science fiction film: the first-of-its-kind World Humanoid Robot ...
Mashable

Robot athletes go for gold at the first ever World Humanoid Robot Games

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 ...
Yahoo

Robots race, play football, crash and collapse at China's 'robot Olympics'

BEIJING (Reuters) -China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday, looking to showcase its advances in artificial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries.
The New York Times

Trea Turner challenges first pitch of the day from Max Scherzer and frivolity ensues

DUNEDIN, Fla. — When we last left Toronto Blue Jays starter Max Scherzer last week, he and those wacky robot umpires had just gotten off on the wrong foot. “We’re humans,” Scherzer grumbled last ...
Popular Science

The world’s first robot games were a clumsy mess

🛍️ Amazon Prime Day is live. See the best deals HERE. 🛍️ By Mack DeGeurin Published Aug 15, 2025 2:55 PM EDT Image: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...