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

The era of us laughing at humanoids playing sport may now be behind us – for the most part – as a field of robots competing ...

Did you ever dream of a future where robots could eat like humans, work like them, and even run like athletes? The reality seems to match the sets of movies like Terminator, where robots can run as ...

Earlier this month, Beijing played host to the unusual spectacle of humanoid robots running a half-marathon. The robots ran alongside the 12,000 or so human runners who slogged their way around ...

Fast running robots are fun, fueling the imagination with all manner of military or search-and-rescue scenarios. This may be the reason why so many different groups from Boston Dynamics to MIT have ...

Humanoid robots are attracting capital at a pace the underlying technology cannot yet justify. Between viral dance performances, stratospheric valuations, and foundation models that have never turned ...

The winner of a half-marathon race for robots broke the fastest human record. The humanoid named Lightning finished the race ...

Chinese robotics startup Unitree has claimed that its humanoid robot H1 reached a speed of 10 metres per second during a recent run. This not only sets the world record for a humanoid robot, but gets ...

But while it is tempting to frame this as robots versus humans, sport robotics isn’t really about competition. It’s about how ...

Unlike last year, nearly half of the robot entrants navigated the tougher terrain autonomously instead of being directed by ...

A humanoid robot named Lightning ran a half-marathon race in Beijing in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — faster than the human ...