Humanoid Games: soccer, dancing, running, and lots of fallingThe event, which began Thursday and runs through the weekend, features 500 humanoid robots from 280 teams across 16 countries. X-Humanoid, which won the first-ever humanoid robot half marathon earlier this year, came in second. A humanoid robot is carried by technicians after being knocked out in a kickboxing match at the World Humanoid Robot Games on August 15, 2025. In the lead-up to this event, Chinese humanoid robot firms also participated in a half-marathon and a live-streamed boxing match. But if that’s the ultimate goal, this week’s humanoid event may have ultimately done more harm than good.