At Caltech, soccer is not only for the athletes. Robots have now taken over the field. Students were challenged to design, build and operate soccer-playing robots to compete in the "Tridroid Cup" in ...

Soccer is getting a high-tech upgrade in Beijing this weekend, and the players aren’t just fast — they’re fully robotic. The RoBoLeague World Robot Soccer League will host its final match in the ...

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- Now the robots are even taking over soccer. At Caltech, students fielded teams of soccer-playing robots Tuesday in the Tridroid Cup, a tournament designed to test ...

China is betting big on humanoid robots — for sports. June saw the launch of the RoBoLeague in Beijing, where fully autonomous robots play three-on-three soccer matches with roughly the skill of ...

Thirty robot teams from countries such as the United States, Brazil, Germany, and Portugal have been registered to play in the soccer competition, according to the organizer. Playing on Monday’s ...

BEIJING (AP) — 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 ...

Humanoid robots are racing, fighting and falling over in a first-of-its-kind World Humanoid Robot Games event held in China. The Olympics-style competition features more than 500 robots from 16 ...

BEIJING, China — Humanoid robots raced and punched their way through three days of a multi-sport competition at the World Humanoid Robot Games, wrapping up Sunday in Beijing. But they also toppled, ...

China’s humanoid robot games were mocked online—but behind the spectacle lies Beijing’s real plan: to dominate AI, robotics, and future military power.

Chinese companies have been aggressively pursuing the nascent humanoid robot market. So far, most of the robots are not very ...