World Humanoid Robot Games kick off in Beijing
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The 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games kicked off in Beijing on Thursday evening and will run until Sunday. On its first game day, nine humanoid robots adorned in 3D-printed Terracotta Warrior armor flawlessly danced alongside a real dancer from the Beijing Dance Academy,
2008 — At the Summer Olympics in Beijing, Michael Phelps and three teammates win the 400-meter medley relay for Phelps’ eighth gold medal, eclipsing Mark Spitz’s seven-gold performance at the 1972 Munich Games. Of his five individual races and three relays, Phelps sets world records in seven and an Olympic record in the eighth.
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