CMG Robot Skills Competition highlights China's tech advances

The CMG World Robot Skills Competition is being broadcast by China Media Group (CMG) from August 4 to 10. Against the backdrop of rapidly advancing artificial intelligence and the growing integration of embodied intelligence into economic and social development, this competition focuses on real-world applications and scenario expansion of robots, aiming to accelerate the transformation of intelligent technologies into new productive forces.

Centered around an opening ceremony, themed task competitions, and a closing ceremony, the event focuses on key areas of robot applications, such as public safety, emergency response, industrial manufacturing, and life services. Through task-based, immersive, and engineering-focused modules, the competition emphasizes how robots are transitioning from laboratory prototypes to industrial and everyday life tools. 

The event also highlights China's advances in humanoid, quadruped, special-purpose, and bionic robots.

The opening ceremony featured a performance combining robots and human dancers, divided into three sections: "From Bronze to Silicon," "From Code to Embodiment," and "From History to the Future." The show blended art and technology to trace the evolution from ancient mechanical ingenuity to modern embodied intelligence.

The themed task competitions will be broadcast daily starting August 5 on CCTV-10. The program follows three main themes: real-world simulations, skills-based challenges, and practical applications. It demonstrates how robots perform in scenarios such as urban safety, life services, and industrial environments, showing the shift from technology-driven innovation to human-machine collaboration..

The closing ceremony will focus on two main themes: science popularization and industrial development. It will include the release of the White Paper on National Scientific Literacy and the Humanoid Robot Technology Roadmap. The white paper will highlight coordinated progress in education, science, and talent cultivation, aiming to create an inclusive and effective science communication ecosystem. The technology roadmap details key areas of embodied intelligence, such as perception systems, cognitive algorithms, and actuators, emphasizing China's latest advances in original breakthroughs, collaborative innovation across the industrial chain, and the development of technical standards.