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Humanoid Robot Penalty Challenge Puts China’s AI Advances on Display

Humanoid robots competed in a live penalty shootout at MWC26 Shanghai, showing progress and limits in embodied AI, balance, ...

Hitch Open Ping-Pong Embodied (HOPE) AI Challenge Joins the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, Seeding Advanced Physical AI Against Human Performance

The 2026 Hitch Open Ping-Pong Embodied AI Challenge (the “HOPE AI Challenge”) — created by the Intelligent Racing Foundation as a new physical AI competition league in the Hitch Open World AI ...
TechNode

Forget the score, MWC Shanghai’s humanoid robot penalty shootout put embodied AI to the test

One of the biggest crowd-pullers at MWC Shanghai 2026 was a fully autonomous humanoid robot penalty shootout, rather than a ...

UT robot soccer team heads to South Korea to compete against world's top autonomous robots

A University of Texas team is preparing for the RoboCup, a global robot soccer tournament in South Korea in an effort to ...
KGW8

China's humanoid robots generate more soccer excitement than their human counterparts

BEIJING, China — While China's men's soccer team hasn't generated much excitement in recent years, humanoid robot teams have won over fans in Beijing based more on the AI technology involved than any ...
Oregonian

China’s humanoid robots captivate soccer fans in fully autonomous match

BEIJING — While China’s men’s soccer team hasn’t generated much excitement in recent years, humanoid robot teams have won over fans in Beijing based more on the AI technology involved than any ...
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Students showcase autonomous vehicles at 2026 RoboBoat Competition

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - RoboNation is hosting the 2026 RoboBoat Competition from Feb. 19–24 at Nathan Benderson Park, drawing 37 teams from 10 countries and 11 U.S. states and territories. The ...