Foreign media focus on China hosting its first humanoid robot football match
This "robot super" is the first test match of the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games and the first domestic 3v3 AI robot football match. Four teams, the Blaze Guangzhi team from Beijing Information Science and Technology University, the Power Intelligent team from the Future Lab of Tsinghua University, the Huoshen team from Tsinghua University, and the Shanhai team from China Agricultural University, have advanced to this final. With the whistle, the robots started to attack and defend, sometimes colliding to compete for the ball. Every goal and the number of points changing always brought cheers and applause from the audience.
These robots do not require any human intervention. They play the game under the guidance of visual sensors and are equipped with artificial intelligence, allowing them to identify the ball and move around the field while avoiding obstacles and other players.
These robots demonstrate the ability to get up after falling, even if they sometimes need help or even need to be carried out of the playing field on a stretcher. Compared to humans, falling is not so noticeable, but it has also caused some funny situations, such as robots sometimes tripping over themselves or falling in slow motion in front of the audience, causing bursts of laughter.
This competition is far more than just a sports event. According to Associated Press, it mainly provides companies focused on robots and artificial intelligence with an opportunity to test their machines and accelerate the development of their algorithms and software.
For Cheng Hao, the founder of Booster Robotics, which provided the robots for this competition, safety is also the top priority. He explained to the Associated Press: "In the future, we can organize football matches between robots and humans." "This means we must ensure that the robots are absolutely safe. For example, robots and humans can play a match, and the result of the match is not important, but there is real offensive and defensive interaction. This will help people trust these robots and understand that they are safe."
China is not unfamiliar with this. Last September, the country held its first robot half marathon. The speed of this race was much slower, with the champion's time being 2 hours and 40 minutes. From August 15 to 17, China will hold its first humanoid robot "Olympics". This event is sure to cause a sensation.
Source: rfi
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