The games featured more than 500 humanoids on 280 teams from 16 countries, including the United States, Germany and Japan.

More than 500 human-like robots from 16 countries, including Japan, have demonstrated their skills at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.

Humanoid robots danced hip-hop, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday evening.

BEIJING: The world's first-ever humanoid robot games began on Friday in Beijing, with over 500 androids alternating between jerky tumbles and glimpses of real power as they compete in events

Over 500 robots competed in soccer, boxing, and running. In many cases, gravity was the real winner. This week, China’s leading robotics minds gathered in Beijing for a hotly-anticipated, Olympics-style event dubbed the world’s first “ Humanoid Robot Games. ”

Rock and Robots! A tech company from Hefei, China built a five-member robot band that’s about to debut at the World Humanoid Robot Games, the first-ever international sports festival for humanoid robots.