The finals of the 2025 RoboCup Humanoid League, part of the world’s most prestigious robot competition, concluded on Sunday in Brazil, with Tsinghua University’s Hephaestus team beating China Agricultural University’s Mountain & Sea team 5:3 to clinch the title.Unlike in previous editions, Chinese teams showed dominant form from the group stage onward. Hephaestus, powered by the domestically developed T1 humanoid robots with an accelerated evolution design, overwhelmed opponents with multiple clean-sheet victories, including 16:0, 9:0, and 12:0 triumphs over UT Austin Villa from the US.China has made history by winning the gold for the first time in the 28-year history of the tournament’s Humanoid AdultSize Soccer Competition. Do you think China leads in robotic technology ?

