Table tennis is the ultimate test of a humanoid robot's speed, adaptability and sustained real-time decision-making. HOPE examines dynamic balance, high-speed motion control, real-time autonomous decisions and scene generalization in a single arena — embodied AI's key leap from merely moving to competing and winning, backed by a quantifiable, reproducible open validation system.
AGIBOT A3 humanoid closes the full loop independently
At WAIC 2026, Hitch Open presented the AI autonomous-decision robot table-tennis exhibition — the first global showcase of physical AI perceiving, deciding and executing in real athletic competition.
HOPE lands at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games as an official competition event, staged at Beijing's National Speed Skating Oval — the "Ice Ribbon" — for world-class field validation on a national platform with top-tier media reach.
12 leading universities and research institutes on one stage
UC Berkeley
Tsinghua University
Peking University
Fudan University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
USTC
University of Hong Kong
Shenzhen University
Beijing Information Science & Technology University
BAAI
Shanghai Innovation Institute
TeleAI, China Telecom
