China’s robot sports craze could eventually put humanoids in homes

On the outskirts of Beijing, young Chinese entrepreneur Cheng Hao sits on an indoor soccer pitch – but this turf isn’t for humans. It’s where engineers working for his start-up, Booster Robotics, ...
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World's First 'Robot Olympics' Featured Soccer, Kickboxing and Lots of Falling Down

More than 500 humanoid robots and thousands of spectators traveled to Beijing over the weekend for a sporting event straight out of a science fiction film: the first-of-its-kind World Humanoid Robot ...
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Robots take on soccer in Caltech competition

PASADENA, Calif. -- Now the robots are even taking over soccer. At Caltech, students fielded teams of soccer-playing robots Tuesday in the Tridroid Cup, a tournament designed to test engineering ...
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Painting lines on soccer and football fields? That's a job robots can do now

Shaun Ilten had a problem. The senior director of turf and grounds for the Galaxy and Dignity Health Sports Park had 26 full-size practice fields, two game fields and a warm-up pitch to line ahead of ...