Robot soccer and kickboxing tournaments in China

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Robot soccer and kickboxing tournaments in China

China, which organized a kickboxing competition between humanoid robots last month, recently launched the robots on the football field.

The video of that football tournament is now viral on social media. In the AI ​​robot football competition held in Beijing, it is seen in the video that the robot had to work hard to stand up straight and kick the ball. 

In that competition, some of the robots had to leave the field after falling and getting injured. Some are joking on social media that it reminds them of 'Neymar-style'. The two robots fell on the ground and could not get up and were taken out on a stretcher. While modern sports competitions are more tactically oriented, despite complaints that they seem robotic, the robot's performance says that the that suggests that Lyon Mbappe's job is safe has journalist Dan Milmo's witty comment in The Guardian .

Robot soccer and kickboxing tournaments in China

With the help of artificial intelligence (AI), automatically operated robots were made into teams of three and played football. While playing, they are seen fighting and stumbling many times, and feedback is coming that they need more practice. In the finals of the

competition, THU Robotics of Tsinghua University defeated the Mountain Sea team of China Agricultural University 5-3 to win the championship. 

Robot soccer and kickboxing tournaments in China

Cheng Hao, the founder of China's 'Booster Robotics', said that sports competitions are a good testing ground for the development of robots. Professor Subramanian Ramamurthy of the University of Edinburgh responded that robots are making significant progress every year. 

Robot soccer and kickboxing tournaments in China

Earlier, in May 2025, China held a kickboxing competition between humanoid robots . It was also called the world's first competition of this nature. In that competition, 6 Unitry G1 EDU model robots competed for the top position.

Among those robots operated by remote control, the robot named 'AI Strategist' won the title. All participating Unitry G1 model robots were trained in 'fight techniques' such as straight punches, hooks, kicks and knee strikes. They could be controlled by voice command, motion-sensing or remote control.

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