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Robots Compete in Football, Boxing and Sprinting at World Humanoid Games in China

The second edition of the World Humanoid Games kicked off in China on Saturday. The competition will run for five days and has already included a robot running faster than Usain Bolt’s 100m sprint world record. Elsewhere at the event in Beijing, a robot performed Cristiano Ronaldo’s iconic ‘Siuuu’ celebration on the football pitch and droids took part in synchronised marching at its opening ceremony. Robots have also been competing in events inc…

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Two thousand humanoids of companies and laboratories from sixteen countries (there is also Italy) will compete in 51 disciplines to test the movement, the skills of autonomous perception and real-time decision-making

·Rome, Italy
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The second World Humanoid Robot Games have kicked off in Beijing. More than 2,000 robots from 16 countries are competing against each other in dozens of events, where the sometimes somewhat clumsy participants make for striking and comical scenes.

·Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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De Telegraaf broke the news in Amsterdam, Netherlands (Kingdom of the) on Saturday, August 22, 2026.
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