The ATEC Championship 2025 was launched in late February to harness AI and robotics for real-world applications. It focuses on the fusion of AI and robotics innovations.
With the theme "AI and Robotics Real-World Challenges", this year's competition has a total prize pool exceeding 200,000 USD. The competition explores key areas, including autonomous perception, cognitive reasoning, decision-making, autonomous navigation, dexterous manipulation, and virtual-to-physical migration.
Online competition tracks
The competition is a global platform, inviting top universities, research institutions, tech companies, and geek teams worldwide to participate in two distinct online competition tracks: the software track and the hardware track.
The Software Track requires participants to design autonomous embodied AI agents for a virtual rescue mission. It evaluates comprehensive development skills and mastery of embodied intelligence technologies, including perception, reasoning, and decision-making.
In the hardware track, participants will be evaluated based on robot systems' locomotion and object manipulation capabilities in unstructured terrains and environments. Teams must design and validate a system integrating a legged robot with a robotic arm.
Moreover, the competition includes an offline session that will test participants' comprehensive application and problem-solving abilities.
ATEC Championship
Over the past several years, the ATEC Championship has been held four times, attracting nearly 6,000 participants from over 200 universities worldwide.
The Advanced Technology Exploration Community hosts the competition and is co-organised by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University, Beijing Normal University, and Ant Group.
