The new football league in China is brutal!

China has officially launched the first human football league. Although the players may not breathe, they are already learning to ask for his saliva, shooting, fall, and return.

The Roboleague, which started on June 28, 2025 in Beijing, stimulates AI’s human robots against each other in the full -referee football matches 3. The Tsinghua team won the match with 5-3.

Robots were provided by Robotics It is almost equivalent to the ability of children between the ages of 5 or 6 years, according to videos published on the Internet. But unlike the average kindergarten, these robots play without any human guidance. Each step, from chasing the ball to strategies, is supported by artificial intelligence.

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Not a trick

At first glance, it may seem like a way to circumvent propaganda. But it is not. This was the first match of its kind in China: a fully automatic football game where human robots operate completely on its own. It is just the beginning.

Behind the friendly result is a deeper ambition. China is betting that competition, especially in sports, will help accelerate the progress of human robots and AI, and convert robotic athletes into more intelligent, more stable, and more flexible machines that can one day work in warehouses, care for the elderly, or even the army.

Roboleague is part of a wider national batch. In April, Beijing hosted half of the marathon as human robots tried to run 21 km alongside humans. One robot ended the race in two hours and 40 minutes, behind the human winner well, but nevertheless a great achievement. In May, a match between the martial arts took place between two human robots in Hangzhou. In August, Beijing will host global human robot games.

How to work

Each game is played in RoboleGue on a small soccer field using three robots for each side. These robots use integrated artificial intelligence systems to make decisions in actual time, from tracking the ball to locations and goals attempts. It is programmed to work without human control and can even recover after being expelled or falling while playing.

However, robots are far from perfection. Videos of the frequent fall match, embarrassing processors, and many unintended collisions appear. The organizers admitted that robots are struggling with tracking things, especially tracking fast -moving football, and moving in obstacles. For compensation, the rules have been modified. Speaking collisions are not punished, and robots that become incapable can be replaced.

But there are signs of rapid progress. The organizers said that robots now generate their strategies for the use of artificial intelligence, without any human inputs.

What is at stake

China believes that human robots are a major sector in its race for global technical domination. According to the China Electronics Institute, the local human robot market is expected to grow to 870 billion yuan (about 120 billion dollars) by 2030. To get there, Beijing will flow money and support policy in startups. Hope is that through competitions like Roboleague, China can accelerate the development of robots that walk, think and behave like humans.

Sports, as it turns out, is the perfect training ground. It requires balance, reaction time, coordination and teamwork. All the things that human robots still struggle with.

But as they continue to play, fall and learn, robots will only improve.

This is the real game.