The Chinese team won the first championship in the Robot Football World Cup humanoid group!

At 22:45 on July 20, the 2025 RoboCup Brazilian Robot Football World Cup humanoid group competition came to an end. The adult group Tsinghua Vulcan team and the domestic accelerated evolution T1 robots they used created history and won the championship trophy on behalf of the Chinese team. This is the first time that the Chinese team has won gold in the most valuable humanoid group since the start of RoboCup.

In addition, the runner-up team is also from China and the Shanhai Team of China Agricultural University, which uses the accelerated evolution T1 robot. The Chinese team won the championship and runner-up in this World Cup adult group competition.

The Chinese team won the championship with an overwhelming advantage

Since the World Cup group stage officially started, the Chinese team has performed well, almost sweeping traditional teams around the world with an overwhelming advantage. Among them, Tsinghua Vulcan team used the accelerated evolution T1 robot to "short" their opponents with big scores of 16:0, 9:0, and 12:0, successfully reaching the adult group robot finals. Finally, in the final, Tsinghua Vulcan team defeated Nongdashanhai team 5:2 and won China's first "Hercules Cup".

It is reported that the first RoboCup Robot Football World Cup began in 1997. It is currently the highest-level, largest and most influential robot event in the world. Among them, the humanoid group event (RoboCuphumanoid) has received the most attention in all competition events. In the 3V3 team competition, robots not only need lightweight, flexible, solid and resistant to falling robots, but also have complex real-time perception and brain decision-making, advanced motion control and multi-agent collaboration tactics, which is a comprehensive competition of robot full-stack technology.