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World Humanoid Robot Games debut in Beijing with Unitree leading the field
The inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games (WHRG) roared into life yesterday evening at the iconic National Speed Skating Oval – the “Ice Ribbon” from the 2022 Winter Olympics. (See video below.) A d…
One robot even scored a soccer goal; another fell but got back up unaided, while a model bot tumbled off the stage and had to be carried by staff – underscoring both the spectacle and the still-evolving nature of the technology. More than 500 humanoid robots from 280 teams across 16 countries, including the US, Germany, Brazil, and Japan, will compete through August 17 across a wide spectrum of challenges – sports like soccer, running, boxing, table tennis, and track events, as well as scenario-based tasks like medicine sorting, cleaning services, and industrial handling. Available coverage confirms this: Unitree, in collaboration with the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI), is entering several key events – including solo dance, hotel cleaning, and guest reception, showcasing a cutting-edge “clone system” for closed-loop teleoperation of the full humanoid body across long tasks.
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