Welcome to the first world humanoid robots games

Few things like more in summer than to give me a good sports bent with the Olympic Games, but this year It will not be. Well, unless we forget Simone Biles or Faith Kipyegon in favor of other less human names such as Robotics Lumos, which has just taken the silver medal in the group dance category in The first World Humanoid Robots Games which is currently being held in Beijing.

If in recent months we had already witnessed the humanoid robots soccer and a kickboxing tournament also in China, this weekend More than 500 robots will compete in various disciplinessome as classic as athletics or martial arts, and others more innovative and different as medication classification and cleaning. The departure gun was yesterday at 8pm in the national speed skating oval (built for 2022) and as expected from such an event, there was a ceremony at the height where some humanoid robots performed Chinese traditional opera, among other performances.

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As of August 15 and until August 17, these pioneer World Robots Games will take place that, despite having a short duration, have a tight schedule: There will be 487 competitions where 280 teams from 16 countries will face whose robots will be beaten for gold, as BBC summarizes. Among the participating states, China is not missing, but neither others such as the United States, Germany and Japan.

As the event organizers explain, the reason for being of this event is Test and perfect the abilities of robotics With something as natural for humanity as sport. Thus, they claim that sport is a way to evaluate the decision making of a robot, its motor skills and its control systems. That a robot achieves gold implies high expectations of adaptation to a real environment such as factories or homes.

“I think that in 10 years or less robots will be at the same level as humans“, has declared a spectator to the French news agency. At the moment human athletes can be calm. In fact, in one of the first competitions that took place this Friday morning, the Five Football match against five, a dozen robots the size of a seven -year -old boy moved quite awkwardly through the field, staying stuck in groups or even turning.

Another story has been the 1,500 meter race, where the humanoids of the Chinese company Unitree (one of the heavyweights both in the sector and in this competition) has been done with gold moving along the track with remarkable agility and surpassing his rivals quite easily, as can be seen in the video. The fastest robot has finished the race with a time of 6: 29.37, still far from the 3: 26.00 of the Male World record. In another athletics test, a robot has collided with a human operator knocking him down without further mishaps than the fall.

The competition calendar leaves 16 events that include 400 meters track and field, soccer, martial arts, management of industrial materials, tomorrow there will be 23 events throughout the day with disciplines such as height, wrestling, unpacking and packaging of pharmaceutical products and classification of mixed materials in warehouses, stand-up dance or hotels cleaning services. And the 17 will be the closure, again alternating classic sports such as 100 meters fences with the final of the hotel welcome reception service.

China is the host of this original event and also the country of reference in the sector, as long as its government has struggled strongly to lead it. In fact, according to the International Robotics Federation a few days ago, Beijing has placed humanoids “In the center of its national strategy“, As the French RFI echoes.

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