China hosted the first AI-powered soccer tournament with autonomous humanoid robots competing in Beijing, showcasing real-world AI applications and previewing the 2025 robot sports games.

It remains to be seen whether robots will rise up against humans, but they could end up fielding a better soccer team than us sooner than anyone was expecting. Researchers at MIT have just unveiled a ...

Saturday’s soccer match also served as a preview for the upcoming 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games, which China will host in Beijing Aug. 15–17. The event will feature 11 robot sports ...

The RoBoLeague World Robot Soccer League will host its final match in the city’s Yizhuang Development Zone on Saturday, where teams of humanoid robots will go head-to-head in a 3-on-3 soccer ...

While the robot's soccer skills aren't at "Lionel Messi-like level," the researchers said, the robot is able to dribble a ball across sand, gravel, mud, and snow. The robot can get up from a fall ...

China’s humanoid robots generate more soccer excitement than their human counterparts By: The Associated Press Posted: 11:31 PM CDT Saturday, Jun. 28, 2025 Last Modified: 2:10 AM CDT Sunday, Jun ...

1 / 5 ARTEMIS, a soccer-playing humanoid robot, is ready for the pitch Humanoid robot developed at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA Jorge Garcia and Alan Devall Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 6:05 AM2 min read By ...

The researchers used deep reinforcement learning, a type of AI, to train the humanoid robots to play a one-on-one soccer game. They first trained the skills in isolation, then composed them to the ...