China News Service, Guangzhou, October 24 (Wang Hua, Zhang Songle) "Technology for Good, Life First—Guangzhou 2026 Safety Emergency Rescue Robot Competition" finals will be held in Guangzhou from the 23rd to the 24th. Through two major tracks and hard-core tests in seven major subjects, this competition opened up a complete link from the laboratory to the actual application of robots, and explored new scientific and technological paths for emergency rescue in megacities.
The competition lasted for three months. After being tested by replicating disaster scenes, a total of 29 teams entered the finals. The finals set up two major tracks, "High-rise Building Fire Rescue" and "Natural Disaster Emergency Rescue", six land and one underwater practical subjects, focusing on fire source positioning and trapped personnel search, load-bearing climbing and material transportation, post-disaster mountainous material delivery, post-disaster large-area AI reconnaissance and precision airdrop, flood underwater precision positioning and buoyancy rescue, etc., various robot armies launched a hard-core competition.
On the field, reconnaissance robot dogs locate trapped people in thick smoke; quadruped robots carry heavy objects, climb stairs, and wade through water to transport supplies; drones brave high-altitude strong winds to break glass outside 30- to 50-story buildings to exhaust smoke and set up water cannons to extinguish fires; demolition robots drill into narrow pipes to open life channels; AI drones cross obstacles to autonomously identify targets and accurately airdrop; underwater robots break through turbid waters to complete the buoyancy rescue of a 160-pound man who fell into the water.
After multiple rounds of competition, the Iron Mastiff team from Xuanji Power and Embodied Homo sapiens won the overall championship in the high-rise building fire rescue track and the natural disaster emergency rescue track respectively. The teams from Hikvision Wuxi, Xuanji Power, Nanyue Emergency, Embodied Homo sapiens Iron Mastiff, Han Meihao, Stealth Innovation, and Chengfeng Cross-border Team won the first prize in each subject.
On the 24th, the "Guangzhou 2026 Safety Emergency Rescue Robot Competition Results Release and Guangzhou Digital Intelligence Emergency Technology Group Unveiling Event" was held. The "Emergency Scenario Decoupled Actual Evaluation Track Design Method (SDOT) and its Application Demonstration" and "Emergency Simulation World Model Construction Method, Localization Implementation and Release Plan" were released at the meeting. Among them, the "Emergency Scenario Decoupled Practical Evaluation Track Design Method" is the first real-life robot evaluation solution in China that covers both high-rise fire fighting and natural disaster rescue. The track can be rebuilt and moved; the emergency simulation world model plans to move the competition field into the virtual space through real-scene scanning and simulation modeling, providing open use.
On the same day, Guangzhou Digital Intelligence Emergency Technology Group was officially unveiled. Established under the leadership of a subsidiary of Guangzhou Urban Investment Group, it focuses on the four major directions of urban construction resilient to typhoons and rainstorms, safety prevention and rescue of high-rise buildings, intelligent risk monitoring of industrial parks, and early warning of air, space and ground integrated hidden dangers, and creates emergency products and service models that can be replicated and promoted.
Guangzhou Urban Investment Group stated that this competition provides a close-to-actual testing environment for emergency rescue robots, allowing scientific researchers to see clearly the needs, accelerate technology iteration, and use the method of "promoting production through competition" to explore a new path for the safety protection of megacities.
