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Humanoid robots demonstrate real-world agility as commercialization accelerates

By DigiconAsia Editors | Friday, July 4, 2025, 4:19 PM Asia/Singapore

Humanoid robots demonstrate real-world agility as commercialization accelerates

Recent mechatronic-robotics breakthroughs are driving up industrial hopes for practical and affordable deployments in logistics, healthcare, and hazardous environments worldwide.

With mechatronics and AI technologies being so mature, how close are scientists in commercializing humanoid robots in real-world, high-stakes environments? Can advanced AI and motion capture truly allow humanoid bots to replicate the agility and decision-making of human fighters?

Beyond the entertainment applications, what are the implications for industries? On 27 Mar 2025, at the world’s first humanoid-robot combat arena in Hangzhou City, agile machines put paid to those questions by engaging in choreographed martial arts bouts, executing complex maneuvers such as jabs, uppercuts, and kicks.

The robots’ fighting abilities are the result of a sophisticated development process:

  • Engineers have collaborated with professional fighters to capture motion data from key body joints during real combat. This data has been integrated into the robots’ AI-driven control systems, enabling the machines to replicate human-like movements with agility and stability.
  • Extensive testing and refinement processes have ensured that the humanoid robots could maintain balance and coordination under high-intensity conditions: a notable achievement in real-time motion planning and dynamic balance control.
  • While still a collaborative experiment rather than a pure competition, the event underscores broader ambitions. The underlying advancements in motion capture, AI control, and mechanical engineering are expected to influence fields such as eldercare, hazardous environment operations, and industrial automation.
  • Recent advances in reinforcement learning and multimodal AI allow humanoid bots to interpret verbal instructions and adapt to complex environments. These breakthroughs are accelerating real-world deployment, promising safer workplaces, improved productivity, and new solutions for aging populations and hazardous tasks

The event follows other notable milestones, such as a humanoid robot completing a half-marathon, and a bot that recently set a world record for the fastest full-sized humanoid robot, reaching 3.3meters per second — in addition to performing a backflip without the use of hydraulics. Other impressive robotic feats are also being demonstrated in public in Europe, Japan, South Korea and the USA.

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