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Thirty seconds before kick-off, humanoid robot footballers in red and blue jerseys await the referee's signal in the South Korean port city of Incheon. Robots take part in a football match at RoboCup 2026, a robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) competition in Incheon on July 3, 2026 The match setting is RoboCup, branded as the world's largest robotics competition, where engineers are betting on a fully autonomous robot team that can one day defeat the FIFA World Cup cham

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group humanoid robot Atlas has demonstrated a series of football techniques in a new World Cup-themed campaign, drawing praise from South Korean captain Son Heung-min. "School of Football," a five-part social film series launched by Huyndai earlier this week, follows Atlas as it learns the sport through progressive training modeled on professional players. In the series, Atlas, developed by U.S.-based robotics firm Boston Dynamics, which Hyundai ac