Robot Games Preview: From Performance to Work — What Humanoid Robots Ran Through This Year

The second World Humanoid Robot Games opens August 22 at the Ice Ribbon with 666 teams and 2,056 robots, team count up 138% and robots quadrupling. Industry figures describe machine configurations converging, core parts following, capacity and orders rising, but scenarios still unsettled and hardware not yet at industrial-grade quality — with data demand jumping from thousands of hours to tens of millions.