🏆 Crash test champions

September 10, 2026

Welcome to the robot Olympics, where the thrill of victory is mostly watching $100,000 machines eat flooring.

@Physical-Bad-3689 via Reddit

At Beijing’s World Humanoid Robot Games, bots ran, boxed, jumped, lifted weights and played tug-of-war, with highlights including collisions, wall charges and implosions. 

During this ESPN meets a Best Buy protection-plan commercial, robots smashed into each other, charged walls, sparked from their hips and, in one case, caught fire. One long jumper even sent a bystander scrambling over a barrier. 

Check them out here.