Overview

• The opening ceremony at the National Speed Skating Oval featured humanoid robots performing hip-hop routines, martial arts demonstrations and musical acts alongside human performers.
• The Games schedule comprises 487 contests across 26 categories ranging from 5v5 soccer and boxing rings to hospital medicine-sorting and hotel cleaning challenges.
• Robots operate in autonomous or teleoperated modes over 5G networks, highlighting recent gains in perception and agility despite persistent battery, balance and heat-dissipation constraints.
• Chinese firms like Yushu Technology, Xinghaitu and Fourier supply robots alongside teams from leading universities including Tsinghua and Peking as well as squads from the United States, Germany and Japan.
• A government officer quoted by People’s Daily described each robot’s participation as “creating history,” underscoring China’s official push to accelerate humanoid robot development.