2025 Beijing World Robot Competition features high-end techs, active participation

A world robot competition featuring cutting-edge concepts, innovative designs, and youth development is shining at the 2025 World Robot Conference, which is being held in Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, the capital city's innovation hub.

Running from Aug 8 to 12, the 2025 World Robot Competition Beijing Championship has gathered more than 10,000 contestants of more than 6,000 teams from nearly 20 countries and regions around the world.

Focusing on the technology industry and comprehensive quality categories, the 2025 World Robot Contest Beijing Championship sets tri-co (coexisting-cooperative-cognitive) robot challenge, BCI controlled robot contest, space robot contest, embodied artificial intelligence robot games, robot application contest, and youth robot design contest.

Specifically, the tri-co challenge and the BCI contest highlight innovative applications of high-end technologies and build a platform for verifying scientific research results through competition. Meanwhile, the youth contest examines contestants' understanding of robotics technology, hands-on skills and collaborative abilities.

The 2025 World Robot Competition launched its preliminary competitions in April this year. More than 500 competitions at all levels will be held around the world throughout the year, and the number of contestants is expected to exceed 350,000 for the first time.

Widely acclaimed as the "Olympic Games" in the robotics field, the World Robot Competition has been held annually since 2015.

2025 Beijing World Robot Competition features high-end techs, active participation

2025 Beijing World Robot Competition features high-end techs, active participation

China sees improving investment structure in the first five months of this year, with infrastructure deployment being accelerated and investment in emerging industries maintaining relatively rapid growth, National Bureau of Statistics spokesman Fu Linghui said at a press conference Tuesday in Beijing.

Driven by China's construction of a comprehensive, multi‑dimensional transportation system, investment in transport, storage and postal services rose 7.1 percent year on year in the January–May period.

Within that category, investment in water transport and air transport increased 23.3 percent and 21.7 percent, respectively.

In terms of digital infrastructure investment, the construction of computing-power networks and next-generation communications facilities progressed in an orderly manner, with investment in the information transmission sector up 30.4 percent year on year.

From January to May, investment in intellectual property products increased 9.3 percent year on year, contributing 1.1 percentage points to overall investment growth.

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and new energy also drove strong investment growth in related industries. Investment in integrated-circuit manufacturing, lithium-ion battery manufacturing, and information services all registered relatively fast increases.

"Looking ahead, investment headroom in China remains broad. Advancing new urbanization, rural revitalization, the development of new quality productive forces, and the upgrading of public services all require continued investment support, laying a solid foundation for high-quality development," said the spokesman.

China sees improving investment structure in 1st 5 months