RSW Editorial

The editorial team covering the forefront of competitive robotics, robot athletics, and autonomous sport.

Articles

• Pit Crew Essentials: Tools You Need When the Clock is Ticking — The must-have gear for rapid robotic repairs.
• RoboCup 2026 Heads to South Korea — And It's Bringing 3,000 Competitors With It — For the first time in its history, the world's largest robotics and AI competition lands in South Korea. RoboCup 2026 runs June 30 to July 6 at Songdo Convensia in Incheon.
• The 2050 Mission: Can Robot Footballers Really Beat the World Cup Champions? — In 1997 a group of roboticists bet that by 2050 autonomous humanoid robots would beat the FIFA World Cup winners. Nearly three decades later, RoboCup is still the most audacious long-term goal in the history of sport.
• One in Three Fans Would Watch a Robot Sports League — So What's Stopping It? — A YouGov survey found that one in three US sports fans would watch a league made entirely of robot athletes. The appetite is there. Here's what the obstacles still are.
• Faster, Stronger, Smarter: How AI Is Quietly Revolutionising Elite Sport — From AI-powered injury prediction and automated officiating to talent scouting algorithms, artificial intelligence is reshaping how sport is played, coached, and watched — at a pace accelerating year by year.
• The World's First Humanoid Robot Games: Tumbles, Triumphs, and a Glimpse of the Future — Over four days at Beijing's National Speed Skating Oval, 500 bipedal robots from 280 teams across 16 countries competed in the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games.
• Beijing's Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon: Tiangong Ultra Wins the World's First Bot vs. Human Road Race — The world's first half-marathon for humanoid robots ran in Beijing in April 2025 — Tiangong Ultra finished the 21.1km course in 2 hours 40 minutes. Here is what happened, who competed, and why it matters for robot athletics.
• Figure AI's Robot Did the Dishes. Then It Explained Why. — In March 2024, Figure AI released a demo of their humanoid robot Figure 01 operating with a GPT-4-powered reasoning system. The robot sorted objects, made decisions, and described what it was doing in natural language — in real time.