China Launches Three-Day Robot Olympics Featuring Football and Table Tennis (reuters.com) 10
China launched the World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday. The three-day event will see 280 teams from 16 countries compete in football, track and field, and table tennis alongside robot-specific challenges including medicine sorting and cleaning services. The event also features 192 university teams and 88 private enterprise teams from the U.S., Germany, Brazil and other nations as well as Chinese companies Unitree and Fourier among participants.
Beijing municipal government serves as an organizing body. The Chinese robotics sector has received over $20 billion in government subsidies in the past year with Beijing planning a one trillion yuan ($137 billion) fund for AI and robotics startups. A previous Beijing humanoid robot marathon saw several competitors emit smoke and fail to complete the course.
Beijing municipal government serves as an organizing body. The Chinese robotics sector has received over $20 billion in government subsidies in the past year with Beijing planning a one trillion yuan ($137 billion) fund for AI and robotics startups. A previous Beijing humanoid robot marathon saw several competitors emit smoke and fail to complete the course.
clanker olympics (Score:2)
Looks like the special olympics is training robots.
Re: clanker olympics (Score:1)
If you look most of robots are remotely controlled
These were a big thing (Score:2)
after EVs and AI (Score:1)
Which football (Score:2)
Football here means soccer. Robots playing soccer is interesting but far less interesting than robots playing American football.
Re: (Score:2)
Probably soccer. It's difficult to simulate the repeated brain damage required to play American football.