The display of the medals and trophies used at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games

A team from the School of Design and Arts at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), led by Professor Jiang Ke and Associate Professor Xie Yong, recently designed the medals and trophies for the soccer competition at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games, held at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing from Aug 14 to 17.

The medal used at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games

The medal's design, featuring a mechanical arm gently embracing an intelligent core, symbolizes industry collaboration. It highlights the necessity of interdisciplinary teamwork in advancing humanoid robot development.

Gently flipping the medal causes the previously embracing mechanical arm to instantly "stand up," adopting a posture of "holding the intelligent core aloft with a single arm." This clever transformation achieves a visual shift from "collaboration" to "breakthrough." The design pays homage to the spirit of innovative breakthroughs, with the uplifted posture symbolizing the breaking of technological boundaries and the upward exploration into unknown realms.

In the design of the medals, "mechanical arm lifting the intelligent core" serves as the "first layer of language" to convey its concept, while the dual form of "plane-flip" acts as the "second narrative" carrying deeper meaning. These two forms precisely correspond to the two core spirits of the humanoid robot field—collaboration and breakthrough—endowing the medal with rich significance.

The trophy used at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games

For the design of the trophy, the team has imbued it with a new emotional expression. It features a "lifting" posture, gently and firmly "embracing" the core intelligence chip of the trophy. This design ingenuity transforms the trophy from a mere symbol of honor into one filled with emotion and warmth. Additionally, the "lifting" stance of the mechanical arm exudes a sense of striving to break limits, injecting dynamic tension into the trophy and allowing the static object to display the vitality and strength of robotic movement.

From the dazzling debut of medal designs at grand events to the countless days and nights spent on overcoming key technological challenges in the labs, BIT teams consistently use innovation as their tool, integrating the power of technology into the fabric of the era's development.