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2025: Hosting the world's first humanoid robot boxing tournament

In May 2025, the Chinese robotics company Unitree held the world's first humanoid robot boxing tournament. The event, called the Mecha Fighting Series, took place in Hangzhou City, Zhijiang Province with the participation of G1 robots.

According to E.vnexpress, androids with a height of 1.32 m and a weight of 35 kg, created to work in difficult conditions, took part in the tournament. The robots demonstrated the ability to deliver direct blows, hooks, side kicks and even perform kick kicks in a turn-around jump, and also showed the ability to get up after falls.

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The event aimed to demonstrate advances in the balance, coordination and strength of robots in high-intensity interaction environments. G1 robots can move their limbs smoothly and execute complex commands. Due to their small size, they show high maneuverability.

As part of the tournament, two fights were held between robots of the same model. Androids in helmets of different colors fought among themselves - black versus green and pink versus red. In one of the fights, a robot in a pink helmet won, and a robot in a black helmet became the absolute champion, knocking out an opponent in green.

The representative of the marketing department of Unitree Robotics Chen Xiyun said that robots fought in the format of man-machine cooperation - four teams of people controlled them remotely. The tournament also served as a test of the endurance of robot batteries and the strength of materials, demonstrating the coordination of the entire body and the capabilities of the upper limbs under high loads.

The developers said that before the competition, robots underwent special training to improve self-balancing and movement accuracy. During fights, robots often beat the air or walked past each other, which created comical moments. However, the organizers note that this is only the first event of this format. The purpose of the tournament was to accelerate research in the field of robotic perception, control and real-time task execution.^[1]

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