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China holds 1st int'l humanoid robot Olympics

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-06-24 01:10

HARBIN - A three-day robot competition, promoted as the first international humanoid robot Olympics, ended Wednesday in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

Eighteen universities from China, South Korea and the United States attended the first International Humanoid Robot Olympic Games which was held in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province, said Professor Hong Bingrong from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT).

The games, organized by the State Key Laboratory For Robot Science and System from HIT and the China National Conference of Artificial Intelligence, included 24 contest events involving track and field, balls, combat, and dancing.

The rules were similar to the Olympic Games which human compete in, Hong said.

Humanoid robots are defined as android robots designed in human forms, with two legs and two arms.