More than 600 teams brought 2,000 robots to Beijing for the second edition of this annual competition, where humanoid robots compete in a wide variety of events, including athletics and household tasks.

The World Humanoid Robot Games are currently going on in Beijing. The event, which seems like the world’s largest Battlebots taping, features events like boxing, weightlifting, track races, and real-world scenario simulations like firefighting and hospitality tasks which have the robot competitors demonstrate their prowess at the applications they were ostensibly designed for—y’know,

China’s humanoid robots are achieving superhuman feats of athleticism. But how that translates into the real world is still an open question, experts said.

More than 2,000 humanoid robots went for the gold in their version of the Olympics and the competitors already broke not only human records but also their own. They competed in the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, The Associated Press reported.

The World Humanoid Games in China bring together thousands of robots competing in sports and real-world challenges, showcasing rapid advances, record-breaking performances and the limitations of human

At a 100-meter sprint, a humanoid robot achieved a result of 9.39 seconds, beating the human record of 9.58 seconds set by Jamaican athlete Bolt in 2009. In a standing high jump,

More, more, more: humanoid robot shipments are growing fast, according to three different sources. But there's some nuance as to where all those humanoids are going

XPeng ( XPEV) raised more than $900M in a major financing and partial carve-out of its robotics unit. The raise went off at a post-money valuation above $6.3B, which sits at the top of the unlisted humanoid robot cohort.