{"id":868537,"date":"2026-08-23T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868537\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T12:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T12:38:26","slug":"robots-compete-in-boxing-football-and-sprinting-at-world-humanoid-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/868537\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots compete in boxing, football and sprinting at World Humanoid Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">The second edition of the World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off in China on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">The competition will run for five days and has already included a robot running faster than Usain Bolt&#8217;s 100m sprint world record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Elsewhere at the event in Beijing, a robot performed Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s iconic &#8216;Siuuu&#8217; celebration on the football pitch and droids took part in synchronised marching at its opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Robots have also been competing in events including boxing, high jump and table tennis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second edition of the World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off in China on Saturday. The competition will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-868537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}