And for those who like football, it may be that in the future the ones who enter will be robots and as the technologies have appeared first in China, this is no different, after the RoboLeague warmed up, it was time for the big test.

3x3 matches, totally autonomous and for this there is a technical ecosystem that combines computer vision, localization and mapping and full body control. The humanoids carry cameras and depth sensors to detect the ball and recognize the lines of the field.

They run perception models that extract the position and speed of the target in real time. and they combine it with some trajectory planning rhythms to walk, turn, brake and kick without tripping over their own feet, yes, I know, they are still quite rigid and hard, but just seeing that there is no teleoperation behind the scenes and that the robot's brain decides where to look, when to accelerate and how to finish, we see that things are going off paper.

The contest took place on the grass of Beijing, robots that fall, get up and resume the play as if it were part of the plan, exposed to variable lighting, noise, collisions and all the unpredictability that no static dataset can deliver.

The robots were provided by Booster Robotics Booster Robotics and have capabilities roughly equivalent to those of 5- or 6-year-old children according to the publication, and every movement, from chasing the ball to creating game strategies, is powered by artificial intelligence.

At first glance, it might seem like a publicity stunt, but it's not, this match was the first of its kind in China, a fully automated soccer game where humanoid robots operated on their own, and this is just the beginning, China is betting that competition, especially in sports, will help accelerate advances in humanoid robotics and AI, transforming its robot athletes into more intelligent, stable and agile machines, which will one day be able to work in warehouses, in elderly care institutions or even in the armed forces.