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

Robots can now run a half-marathon faster than humans and are rapidly homing in on the 100-metre sprint record. But why are ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has emerged that Foundation, a San Francisco-based US company, handed over two Phantom MK-1 humanoid soldier robots to Ukraine ...

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 ...