A robotic debater from Hubei University's team engages in a debate with a human debater at the semi-finals of the first China robot debate competition held in Yizhuang, Beijing, on November 2, 2025. The event employs human-machine interaction, generalization capability assessments, and AI confrontations to comprehensively evaluate the robots' logical coherence, linguistic expressiveness, and on-the-spot adaptability. Photo: VCG