The ATEC Championship 2025, an international competition focused on AI and robotics innovations, has officially started. Organized by the Advanced Technology Exploration Community in collaboration with The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University, Beijing Normal University, and Ant Group, the event features a total prize pool exceeding $200,000.
This year’s competition, themed “AI and Robotics Real-World Challenges,” aims to advance AI-driven robotics technologies in practical applications. It focuses on areas such as autonomous perception, cognitive reasoning, decision-making, autonomous navigation, dexterous manipulation, and virtual-to-physical migration.
The championship includes two online competition tracks. The Software Track challenges participants to develop autonomous embodied AI agents for a virtual rescue mission, testing their expertise in perception, reasoning, and decision-making. The Hardware Track evaluates robotic systems’ locomotion and object manipulation in unstructured environments, requiring teams to integrate a legged robot with a robotic arm. Additionally, an offline session emphasizes comprehensive problem-solving skills.
The event is co-chaired by Professor Yunhui Liu, Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering; Professor Ke Xu, Vice Director of the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University; and Professor Yizhou Wang, Vice Director of the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies at Peking University. The Expert Panel comprises over 60 scholars and experts from institutions such as Nanyang Technological University, University of California, Berkeley, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, University of Technology Sydney, and several universities in Hong Kong.
Since its inception, the ATEC Championship has been held four times, attracting nearly 6,000 participants from more than 200 universities worldwide.
