Humanoid robots led by him determined to compete in the first 3-in-3 football game

Football is getting a high-tech update in Beijing this weekend, and the players are not just fast-are completely robotics.

The Roboleague World Robot Soccer League will host its last match in the Yizhuang development area of ​​Saturday, where humanoid robots will go head-to-face in a 3-in-3 football game in which players are fully controlled by artificial intelligence.

This competition, which is believed to be the first 3-in-3 match between robots, is a survey for next year’s human-robot world games, and four Chinese teams made up of robot players have won spots in the finals after a series of qualifiers.

Robots, who will not have any human help, will play two 10-minute half, with a 5-minute break.

During a Thursday’s training session, teams from the University of Tsinghua and the University of Science and Technology of Beijing information showed their robot players. Machines can walk a little difficult, but they can run, kick and follow the ball – all themselves.

“The World Football League will be the first 2025 World Humanoid Robot Robot Test competition and China’s first China 3-Kuts-3 He Humanoid Robot Football also, which will set the sustainability and versatility of the test participants,” Dour Jing, one of the organizers of the Central Central Television (CCTV).

How do robots know where to go? Each of them is equipped with cameras and sensors that allow it to “see” the field and understand where the ball is.

“Currently, all the visual skills of robot recognition and positioning are realized through optical cameras,” explained Wang Yongrao, which is responsible for the competition operations.

“For example, during the football match, it must first identify a white, round ball or an object of a similar size. Then we make sure the white color or other similar color will not appear on the robots’ legs, staff and judges in place, including their shoes or other objects on them,” he told CCTV.

Robots are trained with deep reinforcement learning – a kind of artificial intelligence that helps them learn through test and error.

“The robot should be able to see football nearly 20 meters away with an accuracy rate of over 90 percent,” said Cheng Hao, founder and CEO of Booster Robotics.

“First, he must be able to show what or where the ball, purpose or field is, and then must make decisions on the role that will play based on all these inputs.”

The car will then have to advance the ball to a teammate or hit it towards the net to score a goal.

“All of these are the technological challenges that we aim to address at the moment. Of course, while technology evolves, all these skills can be achieved for the robot now,” Cheng said.

Saturday’s game is just the beginning. Beijing will host the world’s full humanoid robot games from August 15 to 17 as part of the World Robot Conference – the first global sports event where every competitor, not born, is built.