Held in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province from October 17 to 19, the 2025 China Robot Competition and RoboCup China Open — hailed as the“Olympics”in China’s robotics field — witnessed an unprecedented grand occasion. It gathered more than 5,000 top students from over 1,700 teams ofmore than300 universities across the country to compete on the same stage and jointly explore the future of intelligent technology.
As one of China’s largest-scale, most influential and highest-level robotics competitions, the event set up 24 major categories for the university group, covering cutting-edge technological fields such as autonomous control of intelligent robots, collaborative operation, industrial automation, service robot application and intelligent environment perception. It is not only a comprehensive test of students’theoretical knowledge, but also an extreme challenge to their innovative design, teamwork and problem-solving abilities. After three days of fierce competition, only 58 teams stood out from numerous strong teams and won the championship.
In this competition, a robot team fromXSYU, composed of 6 students including Jin Hanyu, Ma Haoyu, Li Ketao, Zhou Jianing, Liu Chaozhe from the School of Computer Science and Li Caihou from the School of Electronic Engineering, participated in two highly competitive events: the FIRA Small-Size League Semi-Autonomous 5v5 and the Standard Platform League. Facing formidable opponents and ever-changing on-site conditions, the team members remained calm and composed. Relying on their solid technical strength and stable on-the-spot performance, they advanced steadily through the group stage and knockout stage, ultimately claiming the national championships in both events. This achievement marks the best result for our university's students in this competition in recent years, demonstrating their outstanding engineering practice capabilities and innovative spirit.
The championship trophies are forged by the countless days and nights of hard work and sweat of the teachers and students of the robot team. To prepare for this competition, the team launched university-level training, selection and structured intensive training as early as the beginning of this year. The robots in the FIRA Small-Size League require extremely high agility and complex multi-robot collaboration algorithms. The code team continuously optimized and debugged the algorithms to refine a tactical move or improve speed by a few milliseconds. During the high-intensity competitions and training, the robots were subject to continuous wear and tear and unexpected damages. The maintenance team members, with the precision and patience of "surgeons", guarded the "health" of the robots: they conducted comprehensive hardware inspections before each day's competition and carried out maintenance and repairs immediately after the matches. From fine-tuning the motor torque, measuring battery power, inspecting the tire surfaces of the small robots, and repeatedly calibrating sensor sensitivity, to tightening wire connections and lubricating gear transmissions, every detail was handled to ensure each robot performed at its best in every match. It is precisely this rigorous daily training that laid the foundation for their composure in the competition.
It is reported that since its establishment in 2006, our university's robot team has always adhered to the tenet of“promoting learning and research through competitions”and has become an important base for cultivating innovative talents atXSYU. Over the past two decades, the team has trained nearly 2,000 students, participated in 27 large-scale international and domestic competitions, and won more than 100 national awards, including 1 international championship and 2 international third prizes. These twochampionshipsnot only represent a new breakthrough in the team's historical achievements, but also is a concentrated reflection of our university's achievements in engineering education, interdisciplinary integration and the cultivation of students' innovative abilities, bringing great honor to the university.
