Overview

• On June 28 in Beijing, four university teams of humanoid robots competed in the world’s first fully autonomous 3-on-3 soccer tournament with no human intervention.
• Tsinghua University’s AI squad claimed the title with a 5–3 victory over China Agricultural University in the final match.
• Each robot relied on advanced visual sensors and onboard AI for ball detection, navigation and decision-making but frequent falls required some to be stretchered off the field.
• Booster Robotics supplied the hardware while participating universities embedded their own algorithms for perception, formations and passing strategies to test integrated hardware-software performance.
• Organizers will apply insights from the tournament’s balance and durability shortcomings to enforce rigorous safety and reliability standards at the August World Humanoid Robot Games.