This week, China’s leading robotics minds gathered in Beijing for a hotly-anticipated, Olympics-style event dubbed the world’s first “ Humanoid Robot Games. ”

The inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games, running from Aug. 15-17, opened Friday with soccer, sprints, kickboxing and table tennis, as well as a healthy number of face-plants. The games feature 280 robot teams from 16 countries and hundreds of bipedal bots vying for medals and whatever passes for bragging rights among robots.

The competition among tech companies, research institutions, and schools is held in Beijing from Aug. 15 to Aug. 17.

The world’s first humanoid robot surrogate could give birth to a live baby, scientists have claimed. Experts are developing technology that will mimic a pregnancy from conception to delivery, with the infant growing inside an artificial womb and receiving nutrients through a tube.

Roboticists in China have developed a life-sized, furry, AI-enabled antelope designed to monitor the migration patterns of its real-life counterpart. This “bionic” antelope is part of a growing arsenal of somewhat convincing-looking robots used to observe wildlife in up close and personal ways human researchers often can’t.

As someone who regularly covers and reviews the best robot lawn mowers, it’s pretty mind-blowing how far the industry has come in just the past year. We’ve seen some incredible models from the likes of Segway and Husqvarna, with plenty of affordable options popping up too. It really is an exciting time to be in the world of automated garden tech.

The World Humanoid Robot Games have opened on Beijing. The event sees machines compete in sports such as soccer and boxing.

The AI robotics firm Figure released an impressive video of its humanoid robot, Figure 02, autonomously folding laundry.