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.
• How Exoskeletons Are Quietly Changing Athlete Injury Recovery — Klay Thompson. Martina Caironi. Ryan Shazier. A growing list of elite athletes are using wearable robotics to come back faster — here's how sports exoskeletons actually work.
• 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 Sports Exoskeleton Market Explained: Who's Building What, and Why It's Growing So Fast — From $231M in 2025 to a projected $1.5B+ by 2033 — here's who's leading the sports exoskeleton industry, what the technology actually does, and what's driving the growth.
• Smartwatch vs Smart Ring vs Fitness Band: Which Sports Tech Actually Fits Your Training? — Picking the wrong wearable category for your goals is the most common reason people stop wearing their fitness tech. Here's how to match device to purpose — and which specific models stand out in 2026.
• The Best Wearable Fitness Tech of 2026: Smartwatches, Rings, and Recovery Gadgets — A breakdown of the wearable categories worth your money this year — and which specific devices are standing out in smartwatches, smart rings, fitness bands, and AI exosuits.
• 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.
• CES 2026 Recap: The Sports Tech Gadgets Everyone's Talking About — Affordable exoskeletons, smarter rings, AI fitness coaching, and the inflection point for wearable robotics — here's what CES 2026 actually delivered for sports and fitness tech.
• Best Robotics Kits for Kids in 2026: A Parent's Buying Guide — From screen-free beginner bots to Python-ready AI kits, here's how to choose the right robotics kit by age, budget, and skill level — with picks that actually hold a child's attention.
• 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.