From August 13 to 18, the RoboCup Malaysia Open 2025 was held in Malaysia, where two teams from Nankai University achieved a historic breakthrough by capturing three championship titles.

As the world’s most influential robotics competition, RoboCup is renowned for its technical sophistication and broad international participation, drawing teams from dozens of countries and regions each year. This year, the event brought together more than 400 participants and staff from countries and regions such as China, Malaysia, Japan, the US, Iran, Thailand and Macao SAR (China), making it a premier global robotics event.

NKU’s winning teams were ISILAB (supervised by Jia Hao, Associate Professor at College of Pharmacy; members: Da Yang, Shi Shujun, and Ma Jingyu) and KameRider-BIR (supervised by Li Wenyu, Associate Professor at College of Artificial Intelligence; members: Li Leyang, Sun Jialiang, and Wang Yong). After multiple rounds of fierce competition, Team ISILAB secured victories in both the Technical Challenge Competition and the Open Challenge, while Team KameRider-BIR claimed the campionship in the Human–Robot Interaction Challenge.

The Technical Challenge Competition assessed programming and control capabilities, requiring teams to deploy robots by leveraging ROS to complete multiple tasks set by organizers, Each task was scored out of 100 points, with a total of 6 tasks, and the overall ranking was determined by the cumulative score. The Human–Robot Interaction Challenge focused on precision collaboration between humans and robots, where participants, equipped with VR devices, navigated unfamiliar virtual environments to complete eight designated tasks under robotic guidance, with scoring based on task completion speed. The Open Challenge encouraged innovative demonstrations of advanced human-robot collaboration concepts and application scenarios, showcasing visions of a future marked by symbiosis between humans and robots.

This championship marked three historic “firsts” for Nankai University: its first championship at a Southeast Asia competition in the past three years; the first robotics competition title won in Malaysia by students from Chinese mainland; and the university’s first-ever dual win of the Technical Challenge Competition Award and Human–Robot Interaction Challenge Award at the RoboCup.

（Edited and translated by Nankai News Team.)