Over 500 robots competed in soccer, boxing, and running. In many cases, gravity was the real winner. This week, China’s leading robotics minds gathered in Beijing for a hotly-anticipated, Olympics-style event dubbed the world’s first “ Humanoid Robot Games. ”

With the opening of this new store in Beijing, China is taking a strategic step toward bringing robotics technology closer to the population's daily lives.

The World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing was aimed at displaying humanlike robots’ skills at sports and everyday tasks, featured stop-start hotel bellhops