A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far ...

Some robots ran the Beijing half-marathon autonomously, while others were controlled remotely, all competing on a parallel ...

A self-navigating robot called Lightning, developed by Chinese electronics company Honor, won the 13.1-mile race. Its results ...

Chinese startups are churning out more humanoid robots than their U.S. rivals, despite far lower valuations.

Melody is an M-Series humanoid, a masterpiece of "human-centric" engineering from Realbotix, a Canada-based humanoid robot ...

CES 2026 highlighted a trend growing over the past few years: The humanoid robots era. What would previously be announcements of fast quadruped robots, dog-like machines running around that would make ...

Can a robot keep up with Serena Williams? Researchers have taught a humanoid robot to play tennis with humans — and it can hold its own. Chinese AI robotic company Galbot designed software to teach a ...

CES 2026 was awash in walking, lifting, interacting machines. But robots that actually look human aren't necessary in industrial settings. The focus is shifting from humanoid appearance to ...

There's a reason 90% of the world's humanoid robots are made in China, and it's under-investment, according to a new report.

A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing on Sunday ran faster than the human world record in a ...