00:03Stopping is still a problem. At the World Humanoid Robot Games, robots are breaking records and
00:10sometimes crashing spectacularly. More than 2,000 robots are competing in Beijing, from running to
00:18football and martial arts. Competitions like the Robot Olympics test how robots react, balance and
00:26make decisions under pressure and ultimately expose what still needs improving. Some of the things that
00:32we humans think are super easy, like walking, stopping, just standing, is a very complex task.
00:40Testing these under these conditions, every failure is data. The games feature 30 sports competitions
00:47and 21 scenario-based events, testing real-world tasks in settings including factories, hotels
00:55and homes. The idea is to develop skills that could eventually turn the robots from demonstration
01:00tools into useful workers. This is always the idea behind it. You create this laboratory,
01:08whether it's soccer or whether it's clothing folding, so you have like a task in an environment that is
01:14more or less confined in its complexity and then you widen the context. The games showcase China's
01:21tech ambitions as the country expects to produce more than 100,000 humanoid robots this year.
01:27China is at this very interesting point in their development. They are accelerating so fast. They
01:34are becoming bolder and they want to show the world, you know, how good they are.
01:38But it's not a mere PR event. Stadiums are filled with tickets costing up to around 85 euros. For now,
01:46the crashes may be as valuable as the records.
01:48They show developers what might need fixing next.
