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.

A landmark passenger route linking China's southern island province of Hainan with Europe commenced operation on Sunday, marking the Hainan Free Trade Port's first operational air service under the "seventh-freedom traffic right."

Flight DV481, operated by Kazakhstan's SCAT Airlines, left Sanya Phoenix International Airport on Sunday morning for Prague, the Czech Republic. The inaugural return flight, DV482, arrived in Sanya on Monday, with 115 Czech passengers successfully entering China.

Seventh-freedom rights allow an airline to carry passengers or cargo solely between two foreign countries without any connection to the airline's home country.

The route is operated by SCAT Airlines using a Boeing 737 MAX 9, with one round-trip flight scheduled per week.