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China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis


China launched the World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday. The three-day event will see 280 teams from 16 countries compete in football, track and field, and table tennis alongside robot-specific challenges including medicine sorting and cleaning services. The event also features 192 university teams ...

The three-day event will see 280 teams from 16 countries compete in football, track and field, and table tennis alongside robot-specific challenges including medicine sorting and cleaning services. The event also features 192 university teams and 88 private enterprise teams from the U.S., Germany, Brazil and other nations as well as Chinese companies Unitree and Fourier among participants.Beijing municipal government serves as an organizing body. A previous Beijing humanoid robot marathon saw several competitors emit smoke and fail to complete the course.

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