On the afternoon of November 24, an interesting and new sort of "football match" held in Northeast China's Harbin City caught local people's eyes. The match went on between two teams of robots in a "football field" as small as half a ping-pong ball table with a golf ball serving as a "football". The spectators watched the match between six mini robots through a projector in a hall.

Sixteen teams from work units, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, the Northeast University and Harbin Industrial University, participated in the First National Robot Football Championship. Robot football match, called a "technological war on a small platform", is a product of the integration of sports with high technology. The fact that it is merged with intelligence-control technology, machine vision and sensor integration technology, computer imitation technology, mechatronics technology, and other high and new technology, reflects a country's comprehensive capability of information and automation technology. Robot football match, though not long after its emergence in China, has gained extraordinary achievements. Last August, the robot team "Niu Niu" from Northeast University, as the first representative team of China, won the fifth place in the Fourth World Cup Robot Football Match.

At the opening ceremony of this match, the Chinese Robot Football Association reached an agreement with the International Robot Football Association that Beijing will host the Sixth World Cup Robot Football Match.