On the evening of the 14th, the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games opened brilliantly at the National Speed Skating Oval's "Ice Ribbon" event. The competition period is from August 15th to 17th, totaling 3 days. It is reported that the scale of participation in this competition has set a record. After review, 280 teams have been selected to participate, covering 192 university teams and 88 enterprise teams. The university competition team includes teams from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shandong University, Hunan University, Beijing University of Science and Technology, Beijing University of Information Science and Technology, as well as three high school teams including Beijing Renmin University Affiliated High School, Beijing No.11 School, and Central University for Nationalities Affiliated High School. The enterprise competition team includes Tiangong, Yushu Technology, Accelerated Evolution, Songyan Power, Fu Liye, Xinghaitu, etc., covering the top domestic humanoid robot complete machine enterprises. The international team comes from 15 countries including the United States, Germany, Australia, Brazil, and Japan. The overall lineup for the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games is strong, covering 127 brands and gathering over 500 humanoid robots. At that time, 487 competitions with various highlights will be held, and the 100 meter "Flying Man" battle will attract 90 teams to compete; The top six contestants of the world's first humanoid robot half marathon race will appear on the same stage. In addition, it is worth noting that in the free combat event, there are also two club teams composed of six Olympic athletes, including judo champion Yang Xiuli, 400m swimming runner up Zhang Lin, synchronized swimming runner up Chang Si, taekwondo third place winner Liu Xiaobo, women's volleyball third place winner Xue Ming, and boxer Li Yang, competing. As an important rehearsal for the event, the "RCAP Asia Pacific Robot World Cup Beijing Masters" will start first. Zhou Changjiu, Vice President of the RoboCup International Federation and President of RCAP, announced the list of 18 top international teams from 14 countries at the meeting, and emphasized that the competition will host the world's first fully autonomous 5V5 full-size humanoid robot football tournament -10 robots will compete on the field without human intervention, marking a major breakthrough in the swarm intelligence and collaborative decision-making technology of humanoid robots. (New Society)