Overview
- Robots played soccer, shadow-boxed, and shot arrows at the four-day gathering in Greece, with pauses for battery swaps highlighting endurance limits.
- A Science Robotics analysis estimated humanlike machines are about 100,000 years behind software AI in data-driven learning.
- Organizers constrained events to feasible tasks, ruling out discus, javelin, and high jump as unrealistic for current hardware.
- Proposed accelerants included collecting on-the-job task data, leveraging prosthetic-hand sensor datasets, and experimenting with neuron-based chips to improve learning.
- Researchers described fast-growing partnerships drawing billions in funding, as China leans into live public showcases and many U.S. firms favor polished videos.