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World's first full-size humanoid robot fighting championship to debut in Shenzhen


The world's first combat tournament featuring full-sized humanoid robots is to be held in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province in December, according to organizers on Friday.

The world's first combat tournament featuring full-sized humanoid robots is to be held in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province in December, according to organizers on Friday. According to the organizers, the event is designed to test robots' physical limits and intelligence levels through highly competitive and visually engaging combat scenarios. "What we're witnessing is the transition of precision robotics from the lab to the real world," Wang Peng, an associate research fellow at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Friday.

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