MyoChallenge 25

Welcome to MyoChallenge 2025! This year’s challenge takes athletic intelligence to the next level with two new tracks:

⚽ Soccer Shootout: Control a full-body musculoskeletal model to approach the ball and shoot past a moving goalkeeper, requiring precise coordination, balance, and timing.

🏓 Table Tennis Rally: Master an upper-body musculoskeletal model to rally with an AI opponent, demanding fast reflexes, precision, and responsive control.

Both tasks challenge real-time, physics- grounded motor adaptation—pushing beyond repetitive motions toward agile, embodied intelligence.

• Phase 1 -- Open stage: (August - 22nd September)

Open source challenge and preliminary phase. Each participant will be constrained to submit at maximum 5 solutions per day and automatically ranked on a leaderboard. 

• Phase 2 -- Play-off stage: (15th September - October)

Solutions will be evaluated on new test environments with more challenging conditions. 

• Results: (December 2nd)

Results announcement @ NeurIPS 25

• Workshop @ NeurIPS 25: (December 6th)

We provide extensive resources and support to all participants, including access to tutorials and forums where you can connect with other competitors and experts.

• Discussion forum for Q&A

• Youtube Channel for presentations and tutorials

• Advocacy website for additional point of contacts and initiatives

• Library of motion

• Join the Discord Server and get exclusive access to video2motion to generate new data.

2024 Resources

• An all-in-one comprehensive guide by Tatsuki Tsujimoto

• Tutorials on Getting Start with the Challenge & Baselines

• An Overview of MyoChallenge and its Tasks (from Guest Talk at John Hopkins University, USA)

• A discussion forum for all your questions and concerns.

• An advocacy website for more resources.

Please also join our slack channel to follow up with the latest information

• Soccer Shootout Award: the best scoring team able to score most goals in phase 2.

• Table Tennis Rally task Award: the best scoring team in phase 2.

• Best Student Teams Award: For teams comprised of university or high school students.

• DEI Award: Awarded to the team with diverse and inclusive backgrounds.